This course will outline the fundamentals of ESD phenomena and the methods to control the effects of ESD for safe manufacturing of IC devices. The training material will include the nature of ESD transients, their impact on the IC devices, common methods to test for ESD at both the device level and the system board level, and the overall protection techniques. Finally, the course will review the advances in IC technologies that lead to future challenges for ESD development and the resulting important technology roadmap established by the ESD Association.