NUE: Integration of Nanoscale Devices and Environmental Aspects of Nanotechnology into Undergraduate Engineering and Science Curricula

辛辛那提大学(UC)在F.James Boerio博士的指导下，在工程本科课程中引入了两门新课程，名为“NUE：将纳米技术的纳米设备和环境方面的纳米技术整合到本科工程和科学课程中”，以加强加州大学的本科教育。新课程将以学生在现有两门名为“纳米科学与技术概论”及“实验纳米科学与技术”的新课程为基础，为加州大学的学生提供卓越的纳米科学及工程教育。所有四门课程都将每年提供，为加州大学随后开发的专注于跨学科纳米科学和技术的辅修课程奠定基础，并将被工程学院、艺术学院和科学学院交叉列出，使许多不同学科的学生随时可以使用这些课程。该项目将产生更广泛的影响，包括调整实验模块，通过广泛的外展计划向4-12年级的学生展示；满足俄亥俄州在纳米材料和纳米技术领域对技术先进劳动力的需求；满足对创造这样一支劳动力的教育企业的需求；以及将与新课程相关的实验模块提供给所有参与加州大学金属生物材料革命工程研究中心(ERC)的大学。

This Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering program entitled, "NUE: Integration of Nanoscale Devices and Environmental Aspects of Nanotechnology into Undergraduate Engineering and Science Curricula", at the University of Cincinnati (UC) under the direction of Dr. F. James Boerio, will enhance undergraduate education at UC by introducing two new courses entitled Nanoscale Devices and Environmental Aspects of Nanotechnology into the undergraduate engineering and science curricula. The new courses will build on the background that students have gained in two existing NUE courses entitled Introduction to Nanoscale Science and Technology and Experimental Nanoscale Science and Technology to provide students at UC with outstanding eudcation in nanoscale science and engineering. All four courses will be offered yearly, forming the basis for a minor focused on interdisciplinary nanoscale science and technology that UC will develop subsequently, and will be cross-listed by the Colleges of Engineering and Arts and Sciences, making them readily available to students in many different disciplines. The broader impact of this project will include adapting the experimental modules for presentation to students in grades 4-12 through an extensive outreach program; addressing the need for a technologically advanced workforce in Ohio in the area of nanomaterials and nanotechnology; addressing the need for an educational enterprise that creates such a workforce; and making the experimental modules associated with the new courses available to all universities participating in the Engineering Research Center (ERC) for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials in which UC partners.