College applicants looking for a marketable and AI-proof education could do worse this fall than apply to Purdue. The public university in West Lafayette, Indiana, is spearheading perhaps the most exciting semiconductor education initiative in America today, offering a suite of programs from associate degrees to PhDs.  The question is: Will its graduates end up contributing more to the U.S. economy or those of its major economic rivals, chief among them China? Purdue’s program, one