Nano-Link Regional Center for Nanotechnology Education

Nano-Link 纳米技术教育区域中心

• 批准号: 1501878
• 负责人: Mike Opp
• 金额: $ 232.54万
• 依托单位: Dakota County Technical College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-15 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1501878&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Nano; Link; Regional; Center; Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology encompasses subjects from physics and chemistry to emerging technologies such as photonics and biotechnology; and its market segments go beyond the traditional electronics and materials industries, to encompass segments as diversified as lubricants, paper manufacturing, cellulose, energy, consumer products and the food industry. Forecasts of nanotechnology workforce needs cite 500,000 nanotechnology technicians needed by 2020. The ATE Regional Center, Nano-Link, will grow both an industry and education network to help meet these workforce needs.Nano-Link will continue and expand on the successes of the last six years by: providing nanoscience course content to an expanding set of colleges supporting the introduction of nanotechnology aware technicians into industry positions; increasing the number of multi-disciplinary educational modules to address the growing market segments; expanding outreach to underrepresented minorities by creating culturally relevant educational content; and providing college faculty best practices on interacting with industry as nanotechnology educational programs are updated and developed. Ongoing assessment of progress towards the project's goals will help inform the overall project evaluation, which in turn will contribute to building the knowledge base regarding the effectiveness of the network of project partners in achieving improvements in nanotechnology education and meeting regional workforce needs.

纳米技术涵盖从物理和化学到光子学和生物技术等新兴技术的学科;其细分市场超越了传统的电子和材料行业，涵盖润滑剂、造纸、纤维素、能源、消费品和食品等多元化领域。工业。 纳米技术劳动力需求预测指出，到2020年需要50万名纳米技术人员。ATE区域中心Nano-Link将发展一个行业和教育网络，以帮助满足这些劳动力的需求。Nano-Link将继续并扩大过去六年的成功经验：为不断扩大的学院提供纳米科学课程内容，支持将纳米技术意识的技术人员引入行业职位;增加多学科教育模块的数量，以满足不断增长的细分市场;通过创建与文化相关的教育内容，扩大对代表性不足的少数民族的宣传;并在纳米技术教育计划更新和发展的同时，为大学教师提供与行业互动的最佳实践。对项目目标进展情况的持续评估将有助于为项目总体评价提供信息，这反过来又将有助于建立关于项目合作伙伴网络在实现纳米技术教育改进和满足区域劳动力需求方面的有效性的知识库。