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Thinking Small
Online Presentations | 17 Apr 2008 | Contributor(s):: Carl Batt, National Center for Learning & Teaching in Nanoscale Science & Engineering
There is an overwhelming need on the part of the research community to explain our efforts in nanoscale science and engineering to the general public. To do so effectively there is also a need to catalogue the public's understanding of nanotechnology especially with respect to their ability to...
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UV/Vis Spectra simulator
Tools | 04 Mar 2008 | Contributor(s):: Baudilio Tejerina
This tool computes molecular electronic spectra.
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CNDO/INDO
Tools | 09 Oct 2007 | Contributor(s):: Baudilio Tejerina, Jeff Reimers
Semi-empirical Molecular Orbital calculations.
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Molecular Structure Tracer
Tools | 05 Feb 2008 | Contributor(s):: Baudilio Tejerina
This tool provides a high quality display of molecular structures.
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Illinois Tools: Effect of Doping on Semiconductors
Teaching Materials | 01 Feb 2008 | Contributor(s):: Umberto Ravaioli, Nahil Sobh
This Java applet allows students to visualize the effects of doping on carrier concentration in bulk silicon. It utilizes the non-degenerate Maxwell statistics to explore the effects of doping and temperature on carrier concentration and the energy band diagram.Developed in conjunction with Kent...
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Semiconductor Device Education Material
Teaching Materials | 28 Jan 2008 | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck
This page has moved to "a Wiki page format" When we hear the words, semiconductor device, we may think first of the transistors in PCs or video game consoles, but transistors are the basic component in all of the electronic devices we use in our daily lives. Electronic systems are...
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Electronics From the Bottom Up: a view of conductance
Online Presentations | 17 Aug 2007 | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta
Resistance is one of the first concepts an electrical engineer learns, but things get interesting at the nanoscale. Experimentalists have found that no matter how short the resistor is, its resistance cannot drop below a fundamental lower limit. They also found that resistance increases in...
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Electronics From the Bottom Up: top-down/bottom-up views of length
Online Presentations | 17 Aug 2007 | Contributor(s):: Muhammad A. Alam
When devices get small stochastic effects become important. Random dopant effects lead to uncertainties in a MOSFET’s threshold voltage and gate oxides breakdown is a random process. Even a concept as simple as “channel length” becomes uncertain. This short (20 min) talk, a footnote to the...
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Electronics from the Bottom Up: an educational initiative on 21st century electronics
Online Presentations | 17 Aug 2007 | Contributor(s):: Mark Lundstrom, Supriyo Datta, Muhammad A. Alam
In the 1960’s, a group of leaders from industry and academia, recognized that the age of vacuum tubes was ending and that engineers would have to be educated differently if they were to realize the opportunities that the new field of microelectronics presented. The Semiconductor Electronics...
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3D Molecular Models
Animations | 21 Jun 2007 | Contributor(s):: Nicholas Vargo
This animation was created as part of the Children's Museum Nanotechnology Exhibit to give the viewer an idea of what objects look like at the nano-level. The molecules range from something as small as caffeine to major proteins and viruses.
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From Research to Learning in Chemistry through Visualization and Computation
Online Presentations | 17 May 2007 | Contributor(s):: Eric Jakobsson
Modern chemistry research and high school chemistry education are separated by institutional and geographical boundaries. As such, much of secondary chemistry education is still based on the periodic table instead of the computational methods that drive current chemistry research. In this talk,...
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Perspectives on NanoScience and Engineering Education (NSEE)
Online Presentations | 09 Feb 2007 | Contributor(s):: Robert P. H. Chang
Building capacity in NSEE is the driving mission for the National Center for Learning and Teaching in Nanoscale Science and Engineering Education (NCLT). Robert Chang, the Director of NCLT, will discuss the urgency of improving science education in this country and present how NCLT is granted the...
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Team-based learning in a based learning in a nanotechnology course: Enhancing Enhancing critical thinking through course structure
Online Presentations | 04 Jan 2007 | Contributor(s):: Linda Vanasupa
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K-12 Nanotechnology Education Outreach for Workforce Development: The Georgia Institute of Technology Model
Online Presentations | 08 Jan 2007 | Contributor(s):: Diane Palma
At a time when competition for obtaining research grant money is at a critically high level of complexity, coincidentally, the recruitment of U.S. students to science and engineering courses of study and careers is at an all time low. The NSF estimates that by the year 2015 there will be a need...
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Molecular Workbench: An Interface to the Molecular World
Downloads | 25 Jun 2006 | Contributor(s):: Charles Xie
The Molecular Workbench software is a free, open-source modeling and authoring program specifically designed for use in science education. Powered by a set of real-time molecular simulation engines that compute and visualize the motion of particles interacting through force fields, in both 2D and...
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What Can We Learn About Doing Content-Based Educational Research on Teaching and Learning from the 30-Year History of Research in Chemical Education?
Online Presentations | 07 Jun 2006 | Contributor(s):: George Bodner
This talk is based on the assumption that one of the functions of the National Center for Learning & Teaching is to promote basic research on teaching and learning within the content domain of nanoscale science and engineering. In order to understand what this might involve, we will look at...
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Teaching approaches for including nanotechnology and other current topics in the undergraduate curriculum: Context, inquiry and authentic science practice
Online Presentations | 02 May 2006 | Contributor(s):: Gabriela C. Weaver
Topics in nanotechnology and nanoscience are unlikely to be found to any great extent in traditional instructional materials, including textbooks and laboratory manuals. While this may change in the future, it would be useful for today's undergraduate classroom to make use of teaching approaches...
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Creating Research Links between Science at the Nanoscale and Science Education
Online Presentations | 28 Feb 2006 | Contributor(s):: Nora H. Sabelli
This talk will address what is needed to reduce the gap between current science education and science education that incorporates the ideas in current nanoscience. The ability to manipulate matter at increasingly smaller scales of distance and time has blurred the boundaries between disciplines....
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Launch of a Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network
Online Presentations | 21 Feb 2006 | Contributor(s):: larry bell
The Museum of Science, Boston, in partnership with the Science Museum of Minnesota and the Exploratorium in San Francisco, has been selected by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to form and lead a national Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Network) comprised of multiple...
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Homework for PN Junctions: Depletion Approximation (ECE 606)
Teaching Materials | 09 Jan 2006 | Contributor(s):: Muhammad A. Alam
This homework assignment is part of ECE 606 "Solid State Devices" (Purdue University). It contains 5 problems which lead students through a comparison of the depletion approximation and an exact solution of PN junction diodes. Students compute the exact solution by using the PN Junction...