site visit

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NanoEngineering Education Workshop
Undergraduate Education Breakout Group
Results Doug Tougaw, Moderator Valparaiso
University
Jim Aylor March 15, 2003
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Outline

• Issues and Barriers
• Faculty Incentives
• Best Practices
• New Approaches
• Prioritized Recommendations

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Issues and Barriers

• Access to fundamental tools SEM,STM, AFM
• Can they be distributed/web access?
• Problems with all of the facilities at one
  location
• Hands-on and iteration is important?
• ECE curriculum is already overloaded
• Develop a new track/concentration
• Mutate and evolve the microelectronics track to a
  nanotechnology track
• Distance education/internet access
• More interest and involvement from biologist

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Faculty Incentives

• Summer sponsorship of faculty from underequipped
  schools to visit research facilities
• Work with another NSF grantee for a small
  supplement
• Others??

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Best Practices

• National Nanotechnology Users Network (NNUN-five
  sites) and National Nanotechnology Infrastructure
  Network (NNIN-ten sites)
• NNUN supported over 1400 Ph.D dissertations
• Each NNUN site has its own niche but all have
  basic fabrication and metrology tools
• MEMS foundries for undergraduate use
• NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates
• Web-based interaction with remote technician
• RASSP-developed model course module approach

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New Approaches

• MOSIS-like fabrication opportunities
• Every ECE department will have a SEM
• Non fabrication-oriented education
• Modeling and simulation (MEMS CAD)
• What do we do about the biology component?
• More quantum mechanics and solid-state physics
  (at the expense of relativity and black-body
  radiation)
• More manufacturing in microelectronics (eyeglass
  into the future of nanoelectronics)

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Prioritized Recommendations

• Fund an incubator to develop a nanoscale
  laboratory kit
• Single-electron transistor, resonant tunneling
  diode, packaged nanotubes, micro (nano) photos of
  the devices
• Create turnkey course modules
• Reading materials, visual aids, videos,
  simulation and visualization software,
  application examples
• Supplementary in-depth material for faculty
• Develop simulation and visualization software
• Pspice, Matlab nano, NSF distribution network
• Guidelines
• For faculty material integration, course
  revisions, essential topics
• For students elective selection and general
  track guidance