<p>Okay, i've heard about nano engineering and supposedly its really good, but what is it really? Does it have any scope? Will there be good job oppurtunites? </p>
<p>Help needed desperately!!! </p>
<p>If u can list pros and cons about nanoengineering.</p>
<p>Nanoengineering is just a buzzword for a subset of chemistry, chemical engineering and solid state physics.</p>
<p>But will there be good job oppurtinties for nano in the future? Like what kind of companies hire u?</p>
<p>There is no such thing as nanoengineering nor will you find a job as a nanoengineer. No companies hire nanoengineers because they do not exist. Almost all nanotechnology is done by chemists, chemical engineers and materials engineers. Get an ACS accredited B.S. in Chemistry or ABET accredited B.S. in Chemical Engineering or Materials Engineering.</p>
<p>It’s an expanding subfield of chemical engineering. It’s supposed to be more lucrative in the future.</p>
<p>There is such thing as nanoengineering LTY…
Like CoolioC said, it’s a subfield of ChemE that’s definitely expanding. Lots of universities actually have entire centers dedicated to nanotechnology.
I don’t think there are careers in industry right now, as it’s mostly research…</p>
<p>Nanoengineering deals with many quantum properties which you will need to know. That includes a lot physics. The reason it deals with quantum properties is because even the smallest change in dimension( i.e. from say, 5nm size to 2nm length) has the potential to change the object under question. I am barely learning this at UCSD. [UCSD</a> NanoEngineering](<a href=“http://nanoengineering.ucsd.edu/]UCSD”>http://nanoengineering.ucsd.edu/)
Check them out. Brand new major that just opened to undergraduates.
It is true that there are not many jobs out there for us, but the field will expand as nano-machines and nano-bioengineering become more important in everyday life. It will have profound impact in the mechanical, cosmetic, aerospace, and a lot of other industries. You just have to wait for it to get popular.</p>
<p>I second what regularkid123 said, it’s a new branch of engineering entirely dedicated to studying things on a minute scale. Technology is always getting smaller, and the smaller it gets the more it’s possible to do-- how could that possibly be a worthless specialization to have in the future? And besides, at schools like UCSD they also have a focus in the traditional engineering disciplines as well.</p>
<p>It sounds like worthless specialization because it is. Good luck getting an entry-level job doing anything close to what you are supposedly being trained for. It just sounds like a prerequisite graduate education. This nanoengineering is probably a worse career choice for industry than bioengineering, you get a little bit of everything but excel at nothing.</p>
<p>How is nanoengineering a little bit of everything?
I agree with regularkid123 - right now, there are very few industry careers for nanoengineering, as it is mostly based in research. And the research in nano is blooming a LOT right now. IF it becomes big, however, it will become REALLY big. I don’t know if I’d want to take that chance, though.</p>
<p>Northwestern has an International Institute of Nanaotechnology.</p>
<p>Follow the link for more details: [International</a> Institute for Nanotechnology](<a href=“http://www.iinano.org/]International”>http://www.iinano.org/)</p>
<p>Good luck, and remember to Think Small! :)</p>
<p>Nanotech is more closely related to material sciences and chemistry than chemical engineering. Northwestern is top-7 in these two fields; it naturally has high research acitivity in nanotech. But as Last 3 Yrs mentioned, there’s so such thing as nanotech engineers. At least not yet. At NU, nanotech research is done through collaboration among several science and engineering departments.</p>
<p>Err… I don’t know why everyone jumped on the ChemE bandwagon. ChemE is maybe 6th after chemistry, physics (condensed matter), EE, materials science, and MechE in anything “nano.” The best schools are MIT, Berkeley, Cornell, Stanford, Northwestern, Illinois, Rice, Harvard, & UCSB.</p>
<p>It all depends on what way you want to approach nanotech from. Heck, talk to any oldschool metallurgist and they’ll tell you they’ve consciously been doing nanotech since the electron microscope was invented (and metallurgists, ceramicists, etc have been doing nanotech ever since their materials were discovered!).</p>
<p>Well, most Metallurgy departments are now merged into Materials Science and Engineering departments. And MSE is 90% devoted to nanotech.</p>
<p>It hurts me so much to hear you say that. :(</p>
<p>It sounds like everyone who posted here doesn’t really understand what NanoEngineering as a major really entitles. At least at UCSD, where I will be attending as a NanoEng. undergrad major in the fall, it is a very interdisciplinary field. You major in NanoEng., but you have a focus in another eng. field, such as mechanical, electrical, etc. This opens up many career opportunities in various fields that many companies do indeed look for.</p>
<p>If NanoEngineering is such a bad subject then tell me this. Why are 20 companies giving money to UCSD to setup a NanoEngineering Department? And NanoEngineering may be MOSTLY material science and chemical engineering but it also integrates electrical, mechanical and biomedical engineering as well. So it is not really as restricted and narrow as most of you presume it to be :/</p>
<p>During a recent campus tour Junior and I met with a Physics professor whose research work is primarily nanoscience. With much enthusiasm he described his research and its potential impact on the computer industry. Foundations and companies must agree because he seems to have no trouble winning grant$.</p>
<p>^^^^you point out the exact issue with nano engineering its still very research oriented…why do an undergrad degree in something so specialized when you can do a broader undergrad and specialize in it at grad school? Which for research you will probably need anyways. </p>
<p>Im curious to hear input. One of the hardest undergrad programs to get into here in canada is nano engineering (at Waterloo), the program still makes no sense to me.</p>