NUE: Undergraduate Course-Instrumentation for the Nano-World

这个纳米技术本科教育（NUE）计划题为“纳米世界的仪器”，在北方亚利桑那大学（NAU），在劳伦斯M。Fritz由工程局（ENG），工程教育和中心（EEC）部，数学和物理科学局（MPS），材料研究部（DMR）和生物科学局（BIO）共同资助。 NAU的多学科教师团队将开发和教授一个新的，较低水平的本科生，基于实验室的现代仪器纳米科学和纳米技术课程。 该课程将包括讲座和动手示范，涉及电子显微镜，扫描力显微镜，核磁共振，质谱，光电能谱和工程微制造。 讲座主题将包括每种技术的历史，理论，应用，分辨率，限制和未来方向，而动手演示将调查整个课程中常见的纳米材料的特性;碳纳米管的物理特性。 学生将学习每种仪器在碳纳米管研究中的适用性、优点和局限性。 NAU将从其庞大的美洲原住民社区中招募西班牙裔学生参加本课程。

This Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) program entitled, "Instrumentation for the Nano-World," at Northern Arizona University (NAU), under the direction of Dr. Lawrence M. Fritz, is jointly funded by the Directorate for Engineering (ENG), Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC), the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS), Division of Materials Research (DMR), and the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO). A multi-disciplinary team of faculty at NAU will develop and teach a new, lower-level undergraduate, laboratory-based course on modern instrumention for nanoscience and nanotechnology. The course will be comprised of lectures and hands-on demonstrations involving, electron microscopy, scanning force microscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, mass spectometry, photelecron spectroscopy and engineering micro-fabrication. Lecture topics will include the history, theory, applications, resolution, limitations and future directions for each technique whiles hands-on demonstrations will investigate the propoerites of a nano-material common throughout the course; the physical properties of carbon nanotubes. Students will learn the applicability, advantages and limitations of each instrument in investigations on carbon nanotubes. NAU will recruit from its large community of Native American, Hispanic students for this course.