NUE: Nano-Science, Technology, Ethics, and Policy (NanoSTEP)

科罗拉多矿业学院（CSM）的纳米技术本科教育（NUE）工程项目名为“NUE：纳米科学、技术、伦理和政策（NanoSTEP）”，在Corrine Packard博士的指导下，旨在引入纳米技术工程本科教育，在CSM的人文和社会科学课程要求的每一步都强调社会、伦理、经济和环境（S3E）问题。这一目标将通过三个目标来实现。1) Nature and Human Values（一年级四学期学分写作强化核心课程）。2)人文系统（二年级，三学期学分，全球化核心课程）。3) NanoSTEP将把nanoS3E问题引入文科和技术学科的三年级和四年级选修课。因此，所有CSM本科专业将被引入与纳米技术相关的S3E问题的多个层次的教学和学习。NanoSTEP源于科罗拉多燃料电池中心（CFCC）与文科与国际研究学院（LAIS）之前的合作，其方式可以作为其他机构寻求将任何广泛的跨学科注入工程课程，特别是与社会科学和人文科学相关的课程的类似努力的典范。NanoSTEP表现出三个更广泛的影响：1)结合教学模块的开发，它有力地推进了发现和理解（关于通常被忽视的社会正义问题）；2)通过将相关的社会正义问题纳入教与学，将加深代表性不足群体在社会主义教育中的参与，并将通过国际网络和伙伴关系组成部分扩大全球相关群体的参与；3)它将为科学家和工程师提供更好地理解社会问题的智能途径，并且在某种程度上通过在非技术学术团体中的传播，使非科学家公民更好地理解纳米技术，从而使社会受益。

This Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering program entitled, "NUE: NANO-SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ETHICS, AND POLICY (NanoSTEP)", at Colorado School of Mines (CSM), under the direction of Dr. Corrine Packard, seeks to introduce nanotechnology undergraduate education in engineering emphasizing societal, ethical, economic, and environmental (S3E) issues at every step in the humanities and social sciences course requirements at the CSM. The goal will be pursued through three objectives. 1) For Nature and Human Values (a first-year, four semester credit writing intensive core course). 2) For Human Systems (a second-year, three semester credit, globalization core course). 3) NanoSTEP will introduce nanoS3E issues into select third- and fourth-year elective courses in both the liberal arts and technical disciplines. As a result, all CSM undergraduate majors will be introduced to multiple levels of teaching and learning concerning S3E issues relevant to nanotechnology.NanoSTEP grows out of previous collaborations between the Colorado Fuel Cells Center (CFCC) and the Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies (LAIS) in ways that can serve as a model for similar efforts at other institutions seeking to promote any broad interdisciplinary infusion into an engineering curriculum, especially one linked with the social sciences and humanities.NanoSTEP manifests three broader impacts: 1) it strongly advances discovery and understanding (with regard to generally neglected social justice issues) in conjunction with the development of teaching and learning modules; 2) it will deepen participation of underrepresented groups at CSM by integrating relevant social justice issues into teaching and learning and will also broaden participation of globally relevant groups through an international networking and partnership component; and 3) it will benefit society by offering intelligent pathways for scientists and engineers to better appreciate societal concerns and also, to some extent through dissemination among non-technical scholarly communities, for non-scientist citizens to better appreciate nanotechnology.