NUE: Integrating Nanodevice Design, Fabrication, and Analysis into the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

在Santosh Devasia博士的指导下，华盛顿大学(UW)的纳米技术工程本科教育(NUE)项目名为“NUE：将纳米设备设计、制造和分析整合到机械工程课程中”，其目标是培养机械工程师设计纳米设备。随着纳米技术从研究实验室进入工业，在纳米设备方面的这种教育努力变得重要起来。为了实现这一目标，建议的机械工程(ME)课程将利用机械工程(ME)课程在(更大规模)设备的分析、制造和设计方面的现有优势，将纳米设备方面的新发展和独特挑战整合到威斯康星大学机械工程课程的八门课程中。此外，所有威斯康星州大学的学生(在工程学院、文理学院)将被允许参加ME课程(受建议的NUE计划的影响)，作为新的纳米科学和分子工程辅修课程的一部分。因此，拟议的NUE计划将促进纳米技术领域的跨学科本科教育努力。

The goal of this Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering program at the University of Washington (UW), entitled "NUE: Integrating Nanodevice Design, Fabrication, and Analysis into the Mechanical Engineering Curriculum", under the direction of Dr. Santosh Devasia, is to prepare mechanical engineers to design nanodevices. Such educational efforts in nanodevices have become important as nanotechnologies move from research laboratories into industries. Towards this goal, the proposed NUE in Engineering program will leverage the existing strengths of the mechanical engineering (ME) curriculum in analysis, fabrication, and design of (larger-scale) devices by integrating novel developments and unique challenges in nanodevices into the eight courses in the ME curriculum at UW.The proposed program will directly impact nanotechnology-related education of all of the roughly 120 undergraduate students admitted into UW ME every year. Additionally, all UW students (in the Colleges of Engineering, and Arts and Sciences) will be allowed to take the ME courses (impacted by the proposed NUE program) as part of a new Nanoscience and Molecular Engineering minor. Thus, the proposed NUE program will advance interdisciplinary undergraduate educational efforts in nanotechnology.