NUE: Nanotechnology EXposure for Undergraduate Students (NANO-NEXUS)

在史蒂文斯理工学院，杨Eui-Hyeok博士指导的名为“NUE：本科生的纳米技术接触(NUE-Nexus)”的工程本科教育(NUE)项目，旨在将纳米技术与史蒂文斯的本科工程教育联系起来，以扩大对纳米技术及其应用的理解，使广大本科工程学学生群体更了解纳米技术。在这项计划中，两门新的纳米技术课程--纳米300：纳米科学与工程导论和纳米325：纳米制造与表征导论--将为广大学生提供纳米技术方面的教育。新课程具有双重用途，一方面为更多的工程学学生提供纳米科学和纳米技术方面的教育，另一方面为那些选择攻读本科纳米技术研究课程的本科生奠定基础。由于研究轨道将有助于增加瞄准研究生项目的学生渠道，有文件记录的成功将为其他希望促进本科研究作为未来研究生学习基础的人提供一个可复制的范例。在拟议方案中纳入了纳米技术教育材料的传播，以使工程教育界对将纳米技术纳入工程课程并将适当的、有吸引力的纳米技术材料和模块元素带到K-12和社区大学领域感兴趣。这些建议的内容将现有跨学科纳米技术研究生计划的努力扩展到本科水平，并与史蒂文斯创建世界一流纳米技术研究和教育推动力的机构愿景紧密结合。

This Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering program entitled, "NUE: Nanotechnology EXposure for Undergraduate Students (NUE-NEXUS)", at Stevens Institute of Technology under the direction of Dr. Eui-Hyeok Yang, seeks to create a nexus between nanotechnology and undergraduate engineering education at Stevens to expand understanding of nanotechnology and its applications to a broad undergraduate engineering student population. In this program, two new nanotechnology courses, NANO 300: Introduction to Nanoscale Science and Engineering and NANO 325: Introduction to Nanofabrication and Characterization, will provide a means to educate a broad student population in nanotechnology. The new courses are dual-purpose, educating the broader engineering student population in nanoscience and nanotechnology while serving as the foundation for those undergraduate students choosing to pursue the undergraduate nanotechnology research track. Since the research track will serve to increase the pipeline of students aiming for graduate programs, documented success will provide a replicable paradigm for others looking to promote undergraduate research as a foundation for future graduate studies. Integrated within the proposed program are dissemination of nanotechnology educational materials to benefit the engineering education community interested in incorporating nanotechnology into engineering curricula and in bringing appropriate, engaging nanotechnology materials and modular elements to K-12 and community college domains. These proposed elements extend the efforts of the existing interdisciplinary Nanotechnology Graduate Program to the undergraduate level, and are tightly aligned with Stevens' institutional vision of creating a world-class research and education thrust in nanotechnology.