Building Capacity for Nano Education and Outreach through Partnerships with Science Museums: Overview and Case Study

31 Mar 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Carol Lynn Alpert, NCLT administator

This session will present the background and theory behind these collaborations and activities, provide examples, and address evaluative aspects. We will also touch briefly on a range of other …

https://nanohub.org/resources/6187

Characterizing and scaffolding students' conceptions of size and scale

29 Dec 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Alejandra J. Magana

Scale concepts transcend disciplinary boundaries of science, mathematics, engineering, and technology because they are essential for performing explanations, theory generation, observation, and …

https://nanohub.org/resources/7351

Creating Research Links between Science at the Nanoscale and Science Education

28 Feb 2006 | Online Presentations | 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 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1098

DragonflyTV Nano – Using the Power of Television to Introduce Middle School Children to Nanotechnology

15 Jan 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Richard Hudson, Joan Freese, Angie Prindle, Lisa Regalla

DragonflyTV is a PBS science series for children, broadcast nationwide and on the internet. DragonflyTV models authentic science inquiry through its unique approach: In each episode, ordinary …

https://nanohub.org/resources/6123

Electronics From the Bottom Up: a view of conductance

17 Aug 2007 | Online Presentations | 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 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2971

Electronics from the Bottom Up: an educational initiative on 21st century electronics

17 Aug 2007 | Online Presentations | 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 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2968

Electronics From the Bottom Up: top-down/bottom-up views of length

17 Aug 2007 | Online Presentations | 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 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2974

Embedding science and technology education into students' lifestyles and technology choices

06 Dec 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Krishna Madhavan

Learning experiences of the future will be multi-sensory, engage technologies and significant computational power continuously and invisibly, and will be completely engaging. The emergence of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/831

Engineering and Science Instructors' Intended Learning Outcomes with Computational Simulations as Learning Tools

21 Jan 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Alejandra J. Magana

This presentation describes the results of a study aiming to identify how 14 instructors incorporated into their classrooms computational simulations as learning tools. The study was based on the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/16592

Engineering the Classroom: Engineering science as the core for technology teacher education for the 21st century

20 Apr 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Michael De Miranda, NCLT administator

This NCLT seminar presentation will report on content analysis research of pre-service teacher/engineering science students’ ability to conceptualize, design, and evaluate student design brief …

https://nanohub.org/resources/6678

Exploring the Impact of nanoHUB.org on Research and Education Users

15 Sep 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck, George B. Adams III, Krishna P. C. Madhavan, Nathan Travis Denny, Michael Zentner, Swaroop Shivarajapura, Lynn Zentner, Diane Beaudoin, Mehdi Salmani Jelodar

With over 170,000 users in the last 12 months and over 2,300 resources including nearly 200 simulation tools, nanoHUB.org has established itself as the world’s largest Nanotechnology User Facility. …

https://nanohub.org/resources/12071

From Research to Learning in Chemistry through Visualization and Computation

17 May 2007 | Online Presentations | 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 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2725

K-12 Nanotechnology Education Outreach for Workforce Development: The Georgia Institute of Technology Model

08 Jan 2007 | Online Presentations | 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 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2251

Launch of a Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network

21 Feb 2006 | Online Presentations | 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 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/1049

Learning with nanoHUB

29 Jul 2012 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Quincy Leon Williams

Interactive media is the most valuable tool for engaging the younger generations of students and future researchers. Since, few instructors have the skills required to incorporate such new technology …

https://nanohub.org/resources/14886

nanoHUB.org: Future Cyberinfrastructure Serving a Community of 60,000 Today

23 Apr 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): George B. Adams III, Gerhard Klimeck, Mark Lundstrom, Michael McLennan

nanoHUB.org provides users with "fingertip access" to over 70 simulation tools for research and education. Users not only launch jobs that are executed on the state-of-the-art computational …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4395

Opportunities for Integrating nanoHUB Computational Simulations as Learning Tools

25 Feb 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Alejandra J. Magana

This presentation introduces a research agenda that focuses on identifying how to provide: (i) instructors with educational resources to help them better integrate nanoHUB computational simulation …

https://nanohub.org/resources/16594

Overview of How People Learn Framework to Support Instructional Design

19 Apr 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Sean Brophy

The National Academy of Sciences commissioned a report on How People Learn which is now being used by a wide range of educators and researchers. The report provides a review of critical research on …

https://nanohub.org/resources/8874

Perspectives on NanoScience and Engineering Education (NSEE)

09 Feb 2007 | Online Presentations | 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 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2329

Students Perceptions and Experiences of Using Computational Simulations as Learning Tools

21 Jan 2013 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Alejandra J. Magana

This presentation summarizes the results of three research studies aiming to investigate students perceptions and experiences of using computational simulations as learning tools. The three guiding …

https://nanohub.org/resources/16593