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Assessing the Need for Nanotechnology Education Reform in the United States
Submitted on 17-JAN-07
Contributed by Edward Foley, Mark Hersam

Historically, the U.S. has been the global leader in the development of nanotechnologies that are widely believed to be the foundation of the next industrial revolution. However, unless fundamental changes are made in the educational infrastructure in the U.S. to reverse the general erosion of science, technology, engineering, and math (?STEM?) education, and to address the specific growing need for a robust nanotechnology workforce, current trends in the global demographic of the high-technolog...