NUE ASCCEND: Addressing Social Challenges through Creativity, Engineering, Nanotechnology, and Diversity

这个纳米技术本科教育（NUE）在工程计划，题为“NUE ASCCEND：通过创造力，工程，纳米技术和多样性解决社会挑战”，在康涅狄格大学博士的指导下。肖尔，将创造一个跨学科的本科工程集中在创造力和技术创新，重点是对纳米技术的社会影响。 浓度的结构将是一个跨学科的三门课程序列开放给所有工程师，将由来自5所大学课程的项目工作人员合作授课。 这些课程是“纳米科学与社会”，“管理创造力和创新”和“跨学科高级设计：纳米技术”。项目工作人员的部门占康州大学所有工程专业学生的45%，其中包括75%的女学生。ASCCEND将通过将技术和创新置于直接的社会背景中来提升康州大学及其他地区的工程教育。此外，通过为学生提供在跨学科环境中管理创造力和评估技术的具体培训，ASCCEND的参与者将成为不断发展的全球工作场所中更敏捷和富有成效的成员。

This Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering program entitled, "NUE ASCCEND: Addressing Social Challenges through Creativity, Engineering, Nanotechnology, and Diversity", at the University of Connecticut under the direction of Dr. Leslie M. Shor, will create an interdisciplinary undergraduate engineering concentration in creativity and technical innovation that is focused on the societal impacts of nanotechnology. The structure of the concentration will be an interdisciplinary three-course sequence open to all engineers that will be taught collaboratively by project staff from 5 university programs. These courses are "Nanoscience and Society", "Managing Creativity and Innovation", and "Interdisciplinary Senior Design: Nanotechnology". Together the departments of the project staff represent ~45% of all UConn engineering students including 75% of female students. ASCCEND will elevate engineering education at UConn and beyond by placing technology and innovation in a direct social context. Furthermore, by providing students with specific training in managing creativity and evaluating technology in interdisciplinary settings, ASCCEND participants will be more agile and productive members of the evolving global workplace.