Permission from the Associate

November 30th, 2008

The last subarea, nanoengineered materials, looks at several classes of advanced materials including nanocrystalline materials and nanopowders used in electronics and photonics applications, as catalysts in automobiles, in the food and pharmaceutical industries, as membranes for fuel cells, and for industrialscale polymers. The normal recommended program shown below involves course load excluding seminars of five or six courses per term. The first addresses some of the farreaching yet practical applications of miniature instruments for measuring atoms or molecules in chemical, clinical, or biochemical analysis in biotechnology for agent detection and environmental analysis.

Permission from the Associate Director of Nanotechnology Engineering will be required for departures from the normal load in any one term will normally be given only if the student holds an 80 average or better in the previous term. Also in this category is new generation of electronics based on plastics, which is expected to create new markets with applications ranging from smart cards to tubelike computers. Normally, student can include at one of the NE465, NE475, NE485, or NE495 project courses in their program..

To develop this new cluster of technologies, there is an acute need for highly trained personnel with good understanding of the natural laws that govern the workings of not only atoms and molecules which are less than one nanometer in size and bulk materials requiring fundamental chemistry and quantum physics. The second category, nanoelectronics, concerns the development of systems and materials required for the electronics industry to go beyond current technological limits producing even finer detail than features in highperformance microprocessor chip.

The third class, nanobiosystems, can be described as molecular manipulation of biomaterials and the associated miniaturization of analytical devices such as DNA, peptide, protein, and cell chips. The first addresses some of the farreaching yet practical applications of miniature instruments for measuring atoms or molecules in chemical, clinical, or biochemical analysis in biotechnology for agent detection and environmental analysis. Laboratory exercises are compulsory where they form part of course.

The second category, nanoelectronics, concerns the development of systems and materials required for the electronics industry to go beyond current technological limits producing even finer detail than features in highperformance microprocessor chip. The first addresses some of the farreaching yet practical applications of miniature instruments for measuring atoms or molecules in chemical, clinical, or biochemical analysis in biotechnology for agent detection and environmental analysis. Permission to carry more than the normal load in any one term.