NUE: Freshman Laboratory for Nanoscience

该奖项是纳米科学与工程计划(NSF 02-148)的一部分，并得到CEE理事会ENG/EEC部门(项目主管Mary Poats博士)和CCR部门微纳米系统设计自动化项目(项目主管Sankar Basu博士)的支持。该奖项支持一项新生课程的新设施，以激励学生在纳米技术领域追求职业生涯。在这门为期两个学期的课程中，本科生将获得半导体、微流体和微型机电设备的制造和表征方面的实践经验。学生将在第一学期学习如何制造、测量和理解二极管和晶体管等基本固态半导体电路元件的操作和集成。在第二学期，学生建造和测试自己的微流体和微型机电设备，如微型机电麦克风、微型荧光激活的细胞分选器和其他微型传感器。这些任务需要高分辨率光刻设备以及成像技术，这些将通过NSF奖获得。这门课程将允许本科生，特别是对纳米技术感兴趣的大一新生，在课堂上接受最先进的光刻设备培训，然后在暑期进行多样化的跨学科研究课题。根据该计划开发的大部分教学材料将在互联网上提供，供其他学院和大学使用，并纳入NSDL。

NUE Award: Freshman Laboratory for NanoscienceThis award is part of Nanoscale Science and Engineering initiative, NSF 02-148, and is supported by the ENG/EEC division (program director Dr. Mary Poats) and the Design Automation for Micro and Nano Systems Program in the CCR division (program director Dr. Sankar Basu) of the CISE directorate. The NUE award supports new facilities for a freshman course to motivate students to pursue careers in nanotechnology. In this two-term course, undergraduate students obtain hands-on experience in the fabrication and characterization of semiconductor, microfluidic and microelectromechanical devices. Students will learn how to fabricate, measure, and understand the operation and integration of basic solid state semiconductor circuit elements such as diodes and transistors in the first term. In the second term, students build and test their own microfluidic and micro-electromechanical devices such as micro-electromechanical microphones, micro-fluorescently activated cell sorters, and other micro-sensors. These tasks require high resolution lithography equipment as well as imaging techniques which will be acquired through this NSF award. This course will allow undergraduate students, and in particular freshmen interested in nanotechnology, to train on state of the art lithography equipment during the class, and later pursue diversified interdisciplinary research topics during the summer. Much of the instructional material developed under this program will be made available on the internet for use by other colleges and universities and by incorporation into the NSDL.