NUE: Unconventional Patterning at the Nanoscale: Bottom-up Synthesis Meets Top-Down Fabrication

这项由西北大学材料研究部（MPS）和工程教育中心（ENG）颁发的本科教育纳米技术（NUE）奖，支持化学教授Teri W. Odom和材料科学与工程教授Vinayak P. Dravid为大二的本科生开发两门基于研究的纳米尺度图案课程。课程内容包括：(1)自上而下制造和自下而上合成的实践研究经验；（ii）纳米级表征工具的培训；以及（iii）利用先进的和台式纳米尺度图案设计的研究项目。这些以探究为基础的课程旨在为学生在学术发展的早期阶段整合科学、工程和系统设计的概念和方法。学生将与他们的同龄人一起进行小组研究项目，并利用课程内容设计独立的研究项目。该奖项开发的课程内容（网络模块、多媒体演示和互动实验手册）将整合到核心课程中，并通过网络资源分发。这个奖项正在开发的相对简单和廉价的实验可以用于在没有纳米技术基础设施的机构教授纳米技术。由该奖项设计的强大模型可以在其他地方应用，并将培养出训练有素的理工科学生。

This Nanotechnology in Undergraduate Education (NUE) award by Divisions of Materials Research (MPS) and Engineering Education and Centers (ENG) to Northwestern University supports Professors Teri W. Odom in Chemistry and Vinayak P. Dravid in Materials Science and Engineering to develop two research-based courses on nanoscale patterning for undergraduate students in their second year. The course contents include: (i) hands-on research experience on top-down fabrication and bottom-up synthesis; (ii) training in nanoscale characterization tools; and (iii) the design of research projects using advanced and bench-top nanoscale patterning. These inquiry-based courses are designed to integrate concepts and methods in science, engineering, and system design for students at the early stage of their academic development. Students will work with their peers on group research projects and design independent ones using the course content. The course content developed by this award (web-based modules, multi-media presentations, and interactive lab manuals) will be integrated in to core classes and distributed through web resources. Relatively simple and cheap experiments that are being developed by this award could be used in teaching nanotechnology at institutions, which don't have the infrastructure for nanotechnology. Strong models that are being designed by this award could be adapted elsewhere, and would generate better-trained science and engineering students.