INTERDISCIPLINARY UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM IN NANOTECHNOLOGY AT NJIT: Linking K-12 through Graduate Education via Nanotechnology

这NUE在工程计划题为，“跨学科本科生在NJIT纳米技术培训：通过纳米技术研究生教育连接K-12”，博士的指导下。2）为NJIT的本科生开发一个以纳米技术为导向的夏季研究计划，每年将为5名学生提供机会，通过职业发展活动，海报和摘要准备研讨会，并在区域或国家会议上展示他们的项目成果，进一步追求他们对纳米技术的兴趣。3)制定一个计划，将培训研究生的教育策略，有效地教学和指导纳米技术。 4)开发一个多平台的纳米技术教育应用程序，一个可以在平板电脑、电脑和智能手机上运行的应用程序，让高中生熟悉纳米尺度的尺寸。 该计划的四个目标旨在将NJIT研究实验室的纳米技术带入多个教育环境：从高中到本科和研究生院。 该提案的目标的实施将汇集来自NJIT各级以及当地行业的资源和支持，以便为学生提供全面进入纳米技术领域的机会。 这项建议旨在对代表性不足的群体产生最大的影响。少数民族和妇女。 nanoApp将在当地高中分发，特别是关注新泽西的纽瓦克，那里有大量的非洲裔和西班牙裔社区。由于NJIT有33%的少数民族和25%的女性本科生人口，预计该计划将对这些群体引入纳米技术产生显着的影响。

This NUE in Engineering program entitled, "INTERDISCIPLINARY UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM IN NANOTECHNOLOGY AT NJIT: Linking K-12 through Graduate Education via Nanotechnology", under the direction of Dr. Raquel Perez-Castillejos, aims to achieve the following goals: 1) Develop a new 15-week course that will introduce undergraduate students to basic concepts of nano-technology through a series of lectures and hands-on sessions; 2) Develop a nanotechnology-oriented summer research program for undergraduate students at NJIT, which will offer 5 students per year the chance to further pursue their interest in nanotechnology through career development activities, poster and abstract preparation workshops, and presenting their project results at regional or national conferences. 3) Develop a program that will train graduate researchers in educational strategies for effectively teaching and mentoring in nanotechnology. 4) Develop a multi-platform nanotechnology education app-i.e., an app that will be able to run on tablets, computers, and smartphones that will familiarize high school students with nano-scale dimensions. The four goals of this program aim at taking nanotechnology from the research labs at NJIT into multiple educational settings: from high schools to undergraduate and graduate schools. Implementation of the goals of this proposal will bring together resources and support from all levels of NJIT as well as from local industry in order to provide students with a holistic access to the field of nanotechnology. This proposal has been designed to have the most impact on underrepresented groups...minorities and women. The nanoApp will be distributed among local high schools, especially focusing on Newark, New Jersey, which has large African-American and Hispanic communities. Because NJIT has an undergraduate student population of 33% underrepresented minorities and 25% women it is anticipated that this program will have a remarkable impact on introducing these groups to nanotechnology.