New engineering rules will have to be
nanotechnology engineering October 27th, 2008The good ones can learn the structure of new programming language in an hour, the rules in weekend, and become reasonably fluent and even creative within week or two. Assembling large quantities of nanostructures in rational and rapid manner requires tooling, imaging systems, instrumentation, sensors, and control systems. As long as what happens is visible and repeatable, its quite possible to learn whole landscapes of interactions between very intricate and complex system components, developing and redeveloping hypotheses and techniques on minutetominute basis..
And like all engineering rules, of them will be irrelevant in many if not cases. A bold and very important statement Mechanical engineering programs need to ensure that their students are given solid grounding in the fundamentals of physics, chemistry, and biology.
But that physics was essentially just set of engineering rules. New engineering rules will have to be replaced with an understanding of the individual behavior of individual components. But there will be rules. And like all engineering rules, of them will be irrelevant in many if not cases. A bold and very important statement Mechanical engineering programs need to ensure that their students are given solid grounding in the fundamentals of physics, chemistry, and biology.
Assembling large quantities of nanostructures in rational and rapid manner requires tooling, imaging systems, instrumentation, sensors, and control systems. ....how do we integrate these building blocks in rational manner to make functional device or system? This step requires design based on the understanding of nanoscale science, and on new manufacturing techniques. This kind of skill is part of why have been thinking that engineering skill in limited highlycontrolled nanoscale domains could develop quickly. But there will be rules. And like all engineering rules, of them will be irrelevant in many if not cases.
But that physics was essentially just set of engineering rules. ....how do we integrate these building blocks in rational manner to make functional device or system? This step requires design based on the understanding of nanoscale science, and on new manufacturing techniques. Assembling large quantities of nanostructures in rational and rapid manner requires tooling, imaging systems, instrumentation, sensors, and control systems. The good ones can learn the structure of new programming language in an hour, the rules in weekend, and become reasonably fluent and even creative within week or two.
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