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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...

Implementation of Interdisciplinary Group Learning and Peer Assessment in a Nanotechnology Engineering Course
Submitted on 13-DEC-06
Contributed by Mark Hersam

Nanotechnology is an inherently interdisciplinary field that has generated significant scientific and engineering interest in recent years. In an effort to convey the excitement and opportunities surrounding this discipline to senior undergraduate students and junior graduate students, a nanotechnology engineering course has been developed in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University over the past two years. This paper examines......