NUE: Unconventional Patterning at the Nanoscale: Bottom-up Synthesis Meets Top-Down Fabrication

这个纳米技术在本科教育（NUE）奖由材料研究（MPS）和工程教育和中心（ENG）的部门，以西北大学支持教授泰瑞W。Odom在化学和Vinayak P. Dravid在材料科学与工程开发两个研究为基础的课程纳米图案的本科生在他们的第二年。课程内容包括：（i）在自上而下的制造和自下而上的合成方面的实践研究经验;（ii）纳米级表征工具方面的培训;以及（iii）使用先进的台式纳米级图案设计研究项目。 这些基于探究的课程旨在为处于学术发展早期阶段的学生整合科学，工程和系统设计中的概念和方法。学生将与同龄人一起进行小组研究项目，并使用课程内容设计独立项目。该奖项开发的课程内容（基于网络的模块，多媒体演示和交互式实验室手册）将被整合到核心课程中，并通过网络资源分发。该奖项正在开发的相对简单和廉价的实验可以用于在没有纳米技术基础设施的机构中教授纳米技术。 该奖项设计的强大模型可以在其他地方进行调整，并将培养出受过更好训练的科学和工程专业学生。

This Nanotechnology in Undergraduate Education (NUE) award by Divisions of Materials Research (MPS) and Engineering Education and Centers (ENG) to Northwestern University supports Professors Teri W. Odom in Chemistry and Vinayak P. Dravid in Materials Science and Engineering to develop two research-based courses on nanoscale patterning for undergraduate students in their second year. The course contents include: (i) hands-on research experience on top-down fabrication and bottom-up synthesis; (ii) training in nanoscale characterization tools; and (iii) the design of research projects using advanced and bench-top nanoscale patterning. These inquiry-based courses are designed to integrate concepts and methods in science, engineering, and system design for students at the early stage of their academic development. Students will work with their peers on group research projects and design independent ones using the course content. The course content developed by this award (web-based modules, multi-media presentations, and interactive lab manuals) will be integrated in to core classes and distributed through web resources. Relatively simple and cheap experiments that are being developed by this award could be used in teaching nanotechnology at institutions, which don't have the infrastructure for nanotechnology. Strong models that are being designed by this award could be adapted elsewhere, and would generate better-trained science and engineering students.