Schools for Nanotechnology

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<p>Here is a link to the current issue of Small Times magazine, which contains its annual survery of educational facilities for nanotechnology. The link is to the issue, as the topic is covered in several articles. One of them is on some community colleges.</p>

<p>The magazine sough to rate school using a combination of a direct survery and a peer survey. Since only some universities answered their direct survey request, the ratings are given in two parts; one based on both surveys, the other only on peer ratings.</p>

<p>All of the expected schools are there - MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Michigan, Berkeley, Georgia Tech, Rice, etc. Some that are not so necessarily obvious are SUNY-Albany, Penn State, Louisville, Cincinatti, Minnesota, Arizona State, Cornell, North Carolina State, Rutgers, Pitt, Louisiana Tech (Note the undergraduate degree programs).</p>

<p><a href="http://www.smalltimes.com/articles/print_toc.cfm?p=109%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.smalltimes.com/articles/print_toc.cfm?p=109&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>SUNY-albany seems to have a huge nanotechnology center?
It escaped my memory...</p>

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<p>Just about the biggest</p>

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<p>maryland is good at research and education!!!!! awesome school for students!</p>

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<p>i remember vaguely @ ucsd (uc san diego) orientation hearing that there was going to be a school for nanotechnology next year</p>

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<p>university of Oregon has a good program</p>

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<p>UO?? what?? if anything wouldn't Oregon state have it?? Where did you get that from Sheed (btw, that sounded obnoxious when that wasn't what it was intended to be)</p>

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<p>If you want to study engineering, its not at UO. They dont have an engineering program.</p>

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<p>Nano is to specific for undergrad.</p>

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<p>This was one of my first threads :p, I've tried there are no degree programs (good ones) for Nano Undergrad!</p>

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<p>just curious,what can you do with a Nano BS?</p>

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<p>you cant get one...</p>

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<p>yo, California_love.....Nano isn't engineering</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nanotechwire.com/news.asp?nid=1066%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nanotechwire.com/news.asp?nid=1066&lt;/a>
<a href="http://www.sao.org/Resource_Center/newsletter_articles/200606/200606_linda_barney_uofo.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.sao.org/Resource_Center/newsletter_articles/200606/200606_linda_barney_uofo.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Just for added information, the new campus of UC Merced is aiming to be "the" UC for nanotechnology. Has good plans, is still in the startup mode but is expanding quickly.</p>

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<p>Is someone seeking advice or is this thread just for information?</p>

<p>For undergrads seeking to do research on nano in the future, the best major is chemical engineering, since the chemical compositions are very important at the nanoscale and the thermo, fluids and heat transfer you get from the engineering part will come in very useful for many bio and electronic devices that are the focus in research labs today. Electrical engineering with a focus on solid state, or physics with the same would probably be second, with Mech E coming in behind. Though as a ME myself going into grad research in the area, the only advantage I can see myself having over Chem E or EE is in resonator type sensor systems. So find a good school for these eng. majors and take it from there. A lot of funding is going into the area so any top 25 school should have a good amount of undergrad research opportunities.</p>

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<p>Material Science/Engineering is the closest major for nano</p>

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<p>Oh on a side note Material Sciences is pretty similar to ChemE!</p>

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<p>Material Science is good too, but you lose out on the engineering aspects if you want to build devices later on and not just synthesize new nanomaterials.</p>

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<p>just do chemE and have a concentration on nano</p>

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<p>Merper got it about right. Just to add my two cents here; based on my extensive interactions with top academic/government researchers; the following undergrad degrees would be just fine for the advanced grad/post-grad level nano research:</p>

<p>ChemE
MaterialE
EE
ME
Physics
Chemistry</p>

<p>Remember the real nano research can only be done on grad level !!!</p>