Reconciling principles with practices in the age of nanotechnology: Exploring nanoscale science and engineering in undergraduate education

CHED 869

Leonard W Fine, fine@chem.columbia.edu, Luis Avila, laa4@columbia.edu, and Stacey Brydges, sb2415@columbia.edu. Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, 3000 Broadway, Havemeyer Hall, New York, NY 10027
It has been said that new directions in science have been driven by new tools more often than by new concepts. Perhaps nothing addresses that claim more than nanotechnology. As a consequence, nanotechnology in undergraduate education is proving to be inherently different due to this reversal of roles – practices driving principles. Drawing from the seeds of our NUE experience, we will try to make the case. Vive la difference!
 

Nanotechnology in Undergraduate Education
1:30 PM-5:00 PM, Monday, March 26, 2007 McCormick Place North -- Room N227B, Level 2, Oral

Division of Chemical Education

The 233rd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 25-29, 2007