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Nanotechnology in Education and General Framework of Nanomanufacturing

S.Ozel, Y.Ozel

Japan, several research initiatives have been undertaken both Abstract— The emerging field of nanoscience and by government and members of the private sector to intensify nanotechnology are becoming more and more popular everyday. the research and development in nanotechnology. [1] Nanotechnology is truly interdisciplinary; it involves manipulating Hundreds of millions of dollars have been committed. and controlling individual atoms and molecules to design and create Research and development in nanotechnology is likely to new materials, nanomachines, and nanodevices for application in all aspects of our lives. Recent advances and envisioned developments in change the traditional practices of design, analysis, and enabling nanotechnology provide challenges to academia in manufacturing for a wide range of engineering products. This educating and training a new generation of skilled engineers and impact creates a challenge for the academic community to competent scientists. These engineers and scientists should possess educate engineering students with the necessary knowledge, the ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and understanding, and skills to interact and provide leadership in engineering in order to design, analyze and fabricate nanodevices and the emerging world of nanotechnology. [2] nanosystems, which are radically different when compared with traditional technological systems. Nanotechnology deals with materials, devices, and their In this paper, the current status of the progress and developments applications, in areas such as engineered materials, in nanotechnology and nanoeducation is briefly reviewed, from the electronics, computers, sensors, actuators, and machines, at perspective of its applications. Strategies for teaching the nano length-scale. Atoms and molecules, or extended nanotechnology are also presented with a few basic samples. Also atomic or molecular structures, are considered to be the basic this paper represents brief introduction on nanotechnology and units, or building-blocks, of fabricating future generations of introduces a general framework for nano-manufacturing. Note that, electronic devices, and materials. At the nano-meter length the development of nano-manufacturing leads to produce new nano technological products. Also note that nano-manufacturing describes scales, many diverse enabling disciplines and associated approaches and methods to product nano scale materials that can be technologies start to merge, because these are derived from the basically define top-down and bottom-up rather similar properties of the atomic- or molecular- level building blocks. For example, on the one hand, the DNA Keywords— Nanomanufactureing, Nanotechnology, molecular strands are these days proposed as the self- Nanoeducation. assembling templates for bio-sensors and detectors, molecular electronics, and as the building blocks of all biological I. INTRODUCTION materials. On the other hand, some synthetic inorganic ANOTECHNOLOGY and research on this area are materials, such as carbon, boron-nitride or other nanotubes or N becoming more and more popular everyday. The nanowires, may also have similar functionalities in some emerging field of nanoscience and nanotechnology is leading respects, but could also be exceptionally strong and stiff to a technological revolution in the new millennium. The materials. The cross-correlation and fertilization among the application of nanotechnology has enormous potential to many constituent disciplines, as enabling technologies for greatly influence the world in which we live. From consumer molecular nanotechnology, are thus essential for an goods, electronics, computers, information and biotechnology, accelerated development.[3] to aerospace defense, energy, environment, and medicine, all Manufacturing of nanoscale structures, devices and systems sectors of the economy are to be profoundly impacted by will be performed with a high degree of process control in nanotechnology. In the United States, Europe, Australia, and sensing, assembling, and positioning matter at the nanoscale in order to achieve prescribed levels of performance in production and service. Hierarchical integration will be used Manuscript received June 17, 2008. Revised version received Sept. 1, 2008. Nanotechnology in Education: Nanoeducation across dimensional scales, from atoms to molecules to the S. Ozel Author is with Marmara , Faculty of Engineering, human length scale, to incorporate nanostructures into Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Campus of Goztepe, microscale architectures and macroscale products. [4-5] The Kad koy, Istanbul, 34722 Turkey (corresponding author to provide phone: +90-216 348-02-92/127; fax: +90-216 348-02-93; e-mail: semih@ development of nanomanufacturing technologies will lead to eng.marmara.edu.tr). potential breakthroughs in manufacturing of new industrial Y. Ozel is with University of Marmara, Technical Educational Faculty, products. Nanoscale products with unique mechanical, Department of Electrical Education, Campus of Goztepe, Kad koy, Istanbul, 34722 Turkey (corresponding author to provide phone: +90-216 336-57- electronic, magnetic, optical and or chemical properties, opens 70/255; fax: +90-216-337-89-87; e-mail: [email protected]). the door to an enormous new domain of nanostructures and

113 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES Issue 2, Volume 2, 2008 integrated nanodevices. They have a variety, of potential 0.3nm across. People are interested in the nanoscale (which applications such as nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) we define to be from 100nm down to the size of atoms and DNA computers etc. Nanomanufacturing requires (approximately 0.2nm) because it is at this scale that the positioning of nanoparticles in complex 2D or 3D structures. properties of materials can be very different from those at a The techniques for nanomanufacturing can be classified into larger scale. nanoscience defined as the study of phenomena “bottom-up” and “top-down” methods. Self-assembly in and manipulation of materials at atomic, molecular and nanoscale is the main promising “bottom-up” technique which macromolecular scales, where properties differ significantly is applied to make regular, symmetric patterns of from those at a larger scale; and nanotechnologies as the nanoparticles. [12] design, characterisation, production and application of Recent advances and envisioned developments in enabling structures, devices and systems by controlling shape and size nanotechnology provide challenges to academia in educating at the nanometre scale. In some senses, nanoscience and and training a new generation of skilled engineers and nanotechnologies are not new. Chemists have been making competent scientists. These engineers and scientists should polymers, which are large molecules made up of nanoscale possess the ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, subunits, for many decades and nanotechnologies have been science, and engineering in order to design, analyze and used to create the tiny features on computer chips for the past fabricate nanodevices and nanosystems, which are radically 20 years. However, advances in the tools that now allow different when compared with microdevices and atoms and molecules to be examined and probed with great microsystems. Atomic and molecular comprise nanodevices precision have enabled the expansion and development of and nanosystems, exhibit distinctive quantum phenomena and nanoscience and nanotechnologies. unique capabilities that must be utilized. Therefore, advanced The properties of materials can be different at the nanoscale theories, methods, tools and technologies should be for two main reasons. First, nanomaterials have a relatively comprehensively covered and effectively delivered [4]. larger surface area when compared to the same mass of material produced in a larger form. This can make materials more chemically reactive (in some cases materials that are II. NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY inert in their larger form are reactive when produced in their In the simplest terms, the subject of nanoscience technology nanoscale form), and affect their strength or electrical is defined as the science and technology of the direct or properties. Second, quantum effects can begin to dominate the indirect manipulation of atoms and molecules into functional behaviour of matter at the nanoscale - particularly at the lower structures, with applications that were never envisioned end - affecting the optical, electrical and magnetic behaviour before. The prefix “nano” corresponds to a basic unit on a of materials. Materials can be produced that are nanoscale in length scale, meaning 10−9 meters, which is a hundred to a one dimension (for example, very thin surface coatings), in thousand times smaller than a typical biological cell or two dimensions (for example, nanowires and nanotubes) or in bacterium. At the nanometer length scale, the dimensions of all three dimensions (for example, nanoparticles) [13]. the materials and devices begin to reach the limit of 10 to 100s The invention of new devices (STM and AFM) in past two of atoms, wherein entirely new physical and chemical effects decades has enabled scientists and engineers to extend their are observed.[3] studies to objects at the atomic level [10-14]. With the latest Nanotechnology covers all aspects of the production of scanning probe microscopes, it is now possible both to "see" devices and systems by manipulating matter at the individual atoms and molecules and to move them around, nanoscale[8]. Nanotechnology is a cross-disciplinary area of there by creating new nanostructures in a controlled manner. technology that involves physics, , biology, This has led to a paradigm shift in our research into the molecular biology, medicine, materials science and other nanocosmos and today we are in principle in a position to disciplines. In the simplest terms, nanotechnology is defined construct new materials atom by atom and molecule by as the ability to work at the atomic, molecular and molecule, analogously to building a model out of Lego bricks. supramolecular levels at a scale of 0.1-100 nm for the purpose However, there are a number of major challenges on the path of designing, manufacturing, manipulating and applying from being able to perform such operations in the research materials, components and systems with new physical, laboratory to being able to use them in large-scale industrial chemical and biological functional properties. These new production. If we can tackle those challenges, the reward is the properties emerge because of the small scale of the structures, prospect of a large number of very promising possibilities for and can therefore not be obtained in other ways. Integration the use of nanotechnology to help increase growth and with other scales of length and areas of application will often welfare, and to meet some of society's major challenges in the be essential to technological applications. Nanoscience is areas of health, energy and the environment [15]. Fig. 1 below concerned with obtaining an understanding of fundamental illustrates the diversity of current nano-products and phenomena, properties and functions at the nano-scale, that prospective second-generation nano-applications. are not scalable outside the nanometre domain. A nanometre (nm) is one thousand millionth of a metre. For comparison, a single human hair is about 80,000 nm wide, a red blood cell is approximately 7,000 nm wide and a water molecule is almost

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which people should be aiming could be found not only in physics, but also in nano-sized fields. In the 1980s, the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM), a computer imaging system with a surface probe, enabled the manipulation of atoms and molecules, by which most significant change has been brought in this field. Since then, developments in nanotech continued with significant discoveries of nanomaterials such as fullerenes and carbon nanotubes. A pathway of major nanotechnology discoveries is presented in Fig. 2. An important revolution in analytical instruments, preceding discoveries and subsequent technological advancement [16], stimulated the exploration of nanoscale structures and the developments of nanoscale technologies. It has been estimated that nanotechnology is currently at a level of development similar to early commercial applications of information technology in the late 1960s or to the emergence of biotechnology in the 1980s [17], and further impressive discoveries, transforming the affected technological domains, are to be expected.

Fig.1. Diversity of current nano-products and prospective second-generation nano-applications

So far, the relatively small numbers of applications of nanotechnologies that have made it through to industrial application represent evolutionary rather than revolutionary advances. Current applications are mainly in the areas of determining the properties of materials, the production of chemicals, precision manufacturing and computing. In mobile phones for instance, materials involving nanotechnologies are being developed for use in advanced batteries, electronic packaging and in displays. The total weight of these materials will constitute a very small fraction of the whole product but be responsible for most of the functions that the devices offer. In the longer term, many more areas may be influenced by nanotechnologies but there will be significant challenges in scaling up production from the research laboratory to mass Fig.2 Pathway of major nanotechnology discoveries.Diversity of manufacturing. In the longer term it is hoped that current nano-products and prospective second-generation nano- nanotechnologies will enable more efficient approaches to applications manufacturing which will produce a host of multifunctional materials in a cost-effective manner, with reduced resource use and waste. However, it is important that claims of likely B. Nano- manufacturing and Basic Elements environmental benefits are assessed for the entire lifecycle of a The ability to manufacture and use materials, devices and material or product, from its manufacture through its use to its systems integrated from the nanoscale is one of the most eventual disposal [9]. important promises of nanoscale science and engineering. New paradigms are expected in industry, economy, healthcare, environment and security. As an example, gears have been A. A brief history of nanotechnology studied and used for millennia as a macroscale mechanism to The history of nanotechnology began in 1959, when transmit mechanical power and information [18]). However, Richard Feynman (a physicist of the California Institute of carrying the design of a gear transmission to the nanoscale is Technology), in his famous lecture “There is Plenty of Room challenged not only by dominant effects of their high at the Bottom”, proposed the concept of nanotechnology. It surface/volume ratio, and the problems of friction, stiction, suggested that the frontiers of knowledge and technology at surface tension, electrostatic forces etc. during operation, but

115 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES Issue 2, Volume 2, 2008 also by major hurdles in their manufacturing at the nanoscale quality that can be achieved, have started to converge. A in a repeatable, economical and high rate for industrial diagram illustrating some of the types of materials and production. At the same time, nature offers robustly products that these two approaches are used for is shown producible, effective molecular mechanisms, such as the actin- below in Figure 4. myosin filament walk-along interactions in our muscle fibers for linear motion [19] and F1-ATPase biomotor for rotational motion [20]. Such biomimetic paradigms open up exciting research opportunities not only in the analysis of biological archetypes for generating physical movements, but also in the design and manufacturing of bio-inspired devices and their large-scale production for efficient and reliable transmissions at the nanoscale.

Fig. 4. The use of bottom-up and top-down techniques in manufacturing

C. Bottom-up manufacturing Bottom-up manufacturing involves the building of g structures, atom-by-atom or molecule-by-molecule. The wide variety of approaches towards achieving this goal can be split Fig. 3. a. Microscale gear (Sandia National Labs. 1990); b. into three categories: chemical synthesis, self-assembly, and Nanoscale gear (E. Drexler – simulation); c. Biological positional assembly. As discussed below, positional assembly nanomotor (H. Noji, Science 1998) (with its many practical drawbacks as a manufacturing tool) is

the only technique in which single atoms or molecules can be placed deliberately one-by-one. More typically, large numbers Nanoscale manufacturing encompasses all materials, of atoms, molecules or particles are used or created by processes and equipment aimed toward building of nanoscale chemical synthesis, and then arranged through naturally structures, features, devices, and systems in one, two and three occurring processes into a desired structure dimensions. It melds both bottom-up assembly of nanostructure building blocks with top-down processes for D. Top-down manufacturing economical devices and systems with complex functions. Manufacturing techniques at the nanoscale have equal Top-down manufacturing involves starting with a larger relevance as novel components of traditional industries, and as piece of material and etching, milling or machining a engines for revolutionary technologies enabling new products nanostructure from it by removing material (as, for example, and services. They promise to increase in quality, productivity in circuits on microchips). This can be done by using and efficiency of existing technologies, and to establish techniques such as precision engineering and lithography, and industries and markets that would have not been possible has been developed and refined by the semiconductor industry otherwise. Advances in manufacturing at the nanoscale are over the past 30 years. Top-down methods offer reliability and anticipated to accelerate commercialization of products such device complexity, although they are generally higher in as: nanostructured materials with novel and improved energy usage, and produce more waste than bottom-up properties; information technology nanodevices including methods. The production of computer chips, for example, is advanced semiconductors, molecular electronics and not yet possible through bottom-up methods; however, spintronics; nanobiotechnology and pharmaceutics – techniques using bottom-up (or hybrid top-down/bottom-up) diagnostics, implants, new drugs and their therapeutic methods are under exploration.[9] delivery; measuring devices and tools for manufacturing; E. General Framework higher performance safety and security technology including Nanomanufacturing production systems are becoming more sensors, adsorbents, filters and decontaminants; and nano- and more important instead of traditional manufacturing electromechanical systems (NEMS) [21]. systems. Since it is a new area of research and technology There are a wide variety of techniques that are capable of development, there is still need for systematic approaches and creating nanostructures with various degrees of quality, speed scientific methodologies to handle nano materials and nano and cost. These manufacturing approaches fall under two processes as well as their impact on human life. There is also categories ‘bottom-up’, and ‘top-down’. These approaches can a need for understanding nanoscale leads and support for the define as basics elements of nanomanufacturing. In recent development of nano technology. In this part a frameworl for years the limits of each approach, in terms of feature size and

116 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES Issue 2, Volume 2, 2008 the nanomanufacturing systems are developed which will help a new nano material or nano device which can be use them to researchers on this area. Framework for nanomanufacturing agin in this process. Also end of all this process will produce a has represented below. new nano production that can be use customers. Fig 5 below The techniques for nanomanufacturing can be classified into illustrated a nano manufacturing framework. “bottom-up” and “top-down” methods. Self-assembly in nanoscale is the main promising “bottom-up” technique which is applied to make regular, symmetric patterns of nanoparticles [22]. However, many potential nanostructures and nanodevices are asymmetric patterns, which cannot be manufactured using self-assembly. A “top-down” method is desirable to manufacture complex nanosuuctures. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) [23] has been proven to be a powerful technique to study sample surfaces down to the nanometer scale. Not only can it characterize sample surfaces, it can also change the sample surface through manipulation [24], [25], which is a promising “top-down” nanofabdcation technique. In recent years, many kinds of nanomanipulation schemes have been developed [26], [27], [28] to position and manipulate nanoobjects. The main problem with these manipulation schemes is that they go Fig. 5. Nano manufacturing Framework through the scan-design-manipulation scan cycle manually which is time-consuming and makes mass production impossible. In order to increase the efficiency in nanomanufacturing, automated manipulation using collision- free paths is necessary. However, automated tool path III. NANOTECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION planning for nanomanufacturing does not receive much Many attempts have been pursued to develop attention. Makaliwe [29] developed a path planning algorithm interdisciplinary engineering and science curricula that will for nanoparticle assembly. Object assignment, obstacle allow undergraduate and graduate students to successfully detection and avoidance, path finding and sequencing are enter and master the engineering and science fields [6, 9]. To addressed. The obstacles discussed in the paper are polygons, meet academic and industrial challenges, different curricular, which do not occur often in nanoworld. In AFM manipulation, program, tracks and course models have been introduced. It NmS around obstacles should be avoided since turns may lose becomes increasingly difficult to achieve educational nanoparticles during maniputation. To generate a path for objectives and goals without a coherent unified theme. Recent nanomanufacturing, destination, object and obstacle avoidance advances and envisioned developments in enabling have to be considered. To make Nano manufacturing efficient nanotechnology provide challenges to academia in educating using nanomanipulation, it is desirable to develop a general and training a new generation of skilled engineers and framework to manufacture nanostructurs and nanodevices. In competent scientists. These engineers and scientists should this paper, a general framework for nanomanufacturing is possess the ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, developed. Simulations will perform to test the generated science, and engineering in order to design, analyze and paths for real time nanomanufacturing to manufacture fabricate nanodevices and nanosystems, which are radically nanostructures. different when compared with microdevices and In this framework, first step defined as nanomaterials. microsystems. Atomic and molecular comprise nanodevices Different kind of nano materials can use as an input material and nanosystems, exhibit distinctive quantum phenomena and which will produce nano device or other nano materials and unique capabilities that must be utilized. Therefore, advanced process steps follow the nano materials step. Two different theories, methods, tools and technologies should be process type is defined in the second step. These processes can comprehensively covered and effectively delivered. be called nano manipulation. First process includes nano The academic community is reacting slowly to prepare the manufacturing techniques and methods. As it mentioned workforce for emerging opportunities in nanotechnology. before there are two important technique that can use all in Currently, a small number of in the USA, Europe, nano process which they called top-down and bottom up Australia and Japan offer selective graduate programs in techniques. Another process step includes nano manufacturing nanoscience and nanotechnology in collaboration with devices which will direct manipulate to nano materials after research centers. In the United States of America, federal and positioning and path planning. Some of this manipulation state governments, academic institutions, industry and various device can make own positioning and planning but generally it for profit and non profit organizations have developed needs manually image scanning, positioning and path partnerships to establish nanotechnology research centers. The planning. Some of ASM devices integrated CAD computer primary mission of these centers is to conduct research and systems to manage all this steps in a device. Last step will give development in the area of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

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Some research centers also support an associated graduate program within the patron university. In addition, faculty TABLE 1. NANOSCIENCE OR NANOTECHNOLOGY COURSES IN THE WORLD members in various institutions conduct and manage research [15] programs in the areas of nanotechnology and nanoscience Country University Programs supported by funding organizations such as the NSF, DoD, BS. MS. PhD United States University of North Carolina at X NIH, DARPA, etc. In the United States, the following Charlotte universities offer either graduate or undergraduate courses in Louisiana Tech University X X X nanoscience or nanotechnology [1]. X In the world, the following universities offer either graduate The State University of New X X York or undergraduate courses in nanoscience or nanotechnology Dakota County Technical Associates degree [5]. College Chippewa Valley Technical Associates degree College Richland College Associate degree TABLE 1. NANOSCIENCE OR NANOTECHNOLOGY COURSES IN THE University of Central Florida X WORLD [15] North Dakota State College of Associate degree Country University Programs Science BS. MS. PhD Australia/Ne X w Zealand X Brazil Universidade Federal do ABC X X RMIT University X Centro Universitário X University of New South X Franciscano, UNIFRA Wales Mexico Instituto Nacional de X X X Astrofisica, Opticay University of Technology, X Electronica Sydney Universidad de las Américas X University of Western Sydney X Czech Technical University of X X X Republic Ostrava , X University of Aalborg Denmark X X X Doubl University of Aarhus X X X e Copenhagen University X X X Degre Technical University of Denmark X X X e France Master Nanotech X The X Germany Munich University of Applied X , New X Sciences Zealand X Massey University, New X Israel Technion X X Zealand Italy University of Venice X Canada X Netherlands X X Delft University of Technology X X X Norway Norwegian University of Science X McMaster University X and Technology India Andhra X X University,Visakhapatnam Spain Master en Nanociencia y X Nano Indian: India's M.Tech,NanoScience Nanotecnologia Molecular nanotechnology education and & NanoTechnology Sweden X research portal Panjab University, Chandigarh Chalmers University of X Technology University of Madras M.Sc., M.Tech Dual Switzerland Eidgenosslsche Technische X X Degree in Nanoscience Hochschule and Nanotechnology United X Indian Institute of Science - X Kingdom X X Masters X Jadavpur University at Kolkata X X X X - Masters, PhD X X X Amity University, Noida X X University College London X Integrated Post Graduate Certificate Institute of X Turkey Bilkent University X Technology, Vellore, Tamilnadu University of Rajasthan at X Jaipur Singapore National University of X Singapore Thailand X - Center of X Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

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courses; 3. Procuring adequate infrastructure and advanced facilities IV. NANOEDUCATION CURRICULUMS to comprehensibly support learning and scholarship; The focus on microscopic consideration and 4. Developing an interdisciplinary research opportunities nanotechnology reflects curriculum changes in response to the and educational collaborations; engineering enterprise and entreaties of evolutionary industrial 5. Disseminating best practices; demands. Nanotechnology has been introduced to attack, 6. Developing the student and faculty exchange programs integrate and coherently solve a great variety of emerging [7, 31]. problems in engineering, science and technology. A diverse education community has apparently different visions for what to target, emphasize, cover and deliver in nanotechnology V. TEACHING STRATEGIES courses. Different approaches have been pursued by various Nanotechnology should be taught by creating both engineering, liberal art, science, technology and other schools knowledge-centered and learning-centered environments [10] and departments [6, 4, 30]. The topics and material covered in inside and outside the classroom. Because the technology is the undergraduate and graduate courses are quite diverse. advancing so fast, activities that encourage creative thinking, Some nanotechnology-named courses embed and cover critical thinking and life-long learning should be given the traditional quantum physics, organic chemistry, microscopy, highest priority. metrology, electronics and other conventional science and Nanotechnology is truly interdisciplinary. An engineering topics using nano as a magnification prefix. A interdisciplinary curriculum that encompasses a broad consensus has yet to be reached within the research and understanding of basic sciences intertwined with engineering education communities for a definition of nanotechnology. sciences and information sciences pertinent to nanotechnology Engineering and science curricula integrate general is essential. Introductory nanotechnology courses should be education, science, engineering and technology courses. taught more from the perspectives of concept development Students typically have some deficiencies in various aspects of and qualitative analysis rather than mathematical derivations. quantum physics, engineering mathematics, chemistry and Every effort should be made to convey the big picture and biology. Multidisciplinary courses and curricula represent a how different learning exercises fit together to achieve course major departure from the conventional curricula. The attempt objectives. Each course should be taught at the appropriate to substitute basic courses can create significant challenges. level with required prerequisites. An interdisciplinary education encompasses and requires a Teachers should begin introducing the concept of broader coverage of cornerstone science in addition to the nanotechnology during freshman and sophomore engineering specialized in-depth topics, engineering design and courses and continue throughout the subsequent engineering fabrication. It is difficult, if not impossible, to substitute the science curriculum. Junior and senior design courses, cornerstone basic science and engineering courses by specifically the capstone design courses, should integrate multidisciplinary courses which do not duplicate the basic modeling, simulation, control and optimization of nanodevices courses. The need for traditional courses, such as Biology, and nanosystems into the course objectives. In reality, Calculus, Chemistry and Quantum Physics is not eased, but is nanotechnology is a branch of engineering and because design rather strengthened [6, 4, and 8]. This factor should be counted is the essence of engineering, every effort should be made to in the nanotechnology curriculum developments. Introductory integrate concepts related to nanotechnology into all design nanotechnology topics can be introduced and emphasized courses. through the required chemistry, biology, physics and freshman Interactive learning should be the hallmark of engineering courses. This provides a meaningful starting point nanotechnology education. Technology can play a powerful for students. An interdisciplinary curriculum encompasses a role in facilitating interactive learning both inside and outside broad understanding of basic and engineering sciences the classroom. Students can participate in nanotechnology pertinent to nanotechnology. The nanotechnology-centered research development projects and laboratory experiments all research and education initiatives require close collaboration over the world via the Internet. Students should be given between departments and colleges in order to provide viable opportunities to work directly with established educational and training opportunities. The unified studies of nanotechnology research centers (local, regional, national, engineering and science potentially can be advanced and international) to gain hands-on experience. University faculty enhanced through nanotechnology curricula. In order to members must collaborate with industry in order to educate prepare students to solve nanotechnological challenges, the and train students in the field of nanotechnology. Utilizing a nanotechnology education should be coherently incorporated team of faculty members specializing in appropriate into the mainstream undergraduate engineering and science disciplines to teach nanotechnology courses is highly curriculum by: desirable. The inclusion of guest speakers from industry and 1. Coherently integrating nanotechnology within traditional research centers enhances the quality of available courses. and modern science and engineering courses; It is important to educate engineering faculty rooted in the 2. Developing new multidisciplinary courses traditional disciplines regarding the advances in complementing not substituting and duplicating) traditional nanotechnology and the ways in which all engineering

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