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An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University
of Delaware has received a two-year $200,000 grant from the National Science
Foundation's Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering Program.
Entitled “Connecting Nanotechnology and Alternative Energy Approaches
Through Undergraduate Education in Engineering,” the program will be led
by Ismat Shah, professor in the departments of Materials Science and Engineering
and Physics and Astronomy.
In addition to Shah, the team includes the following faculty:
- Jingguang Chen, Claire D. LeClaire Professor of Chemical Engineering;
- Matthew Doty, assistant professor, Department of Materials Science and
Engineering;
- James Kolodzey, Charles Black Evans Professor of Electrical Engineering;
- Michael MacKay, Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering;
- Thomas Powers, assistant professor, Department of Philosophy;
- Ajay Prasad, professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering;
- Valery Roy, associate professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering;
and
- Joshua Zide, assistant professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
According to Shah, the grant will enable establishment of a comprehensive
program to prepare undergraduate students for nanotechnology by providing them
with both the knowledge and the background to become part of the fast-growing
community of researchers at the local, national, and global levels in this area.
The focus of the program will be on coursework and training related to the
application of nanomaterials for alternative energy research. “Participating
students will have the opportunity to choose topics from a variety of current
research going on in the energy and nanotechnology areas on campus,” Shah
says.
The program will also include a component to educate the future work force
in the ethics of nanotechnology through course work and workshops to be organized
in collaboration with co-principal investigator Thomas Powers, who directs the
Delaware Interdisciplinary Ethics Program, and with the Science, Ethics and
Public Policy Program (SEPP) program at the Delaware Biotechnology Institute.
The workshops will be open to the University community.
Posted September 17th, 2009
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