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

在华盛顿大学（UW）的工程项目中，纳米技术本科教育（NUE）的目标是在Santosh Devasia博士的指导下，为机械工程师设计纳米器件做好准备，该项目名为“NUE：将纳米器件设计、制造和分析整合到机械工程课程中”。 随着纳米技术从研究实验室进入工业，纳米器件方面的这种教育工作变得非常重要。 为了实现这一目标，拟议的NUE工程计划将利用机械工程（ME）课程在分析，制造，与设计通过将纳米器件的新发展和独特挑战整合到威斯康星大学ME课程的八门课程中，（更大规模）器件。拟议的计划将直接影响纳米技术-每年大约有120名本科生被UW ME录取。 此外，所有华盛顿大学的学生（在工程学院，艺术和科学学院）将被允许参加ME课程（受拟议的NUE计划的影响）作为新的纳米科学和分子工程未成年人的一部分。 因此，拟议的NUE计划将推进纳米技术的跨学科本科教育工作。

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.