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

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

Today's Scientific Scenario and Tomorrow's Challenges: The Case for India

09 Jul 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): C.N.R. Rao

It is instructive and useful to examine the state of science in the country after 60 years of independence. What one sees is a curious mixture of successes and disappointments, and yet, one …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4860

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

Thinking Small

17 Apr 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Carl Batt, NCLT administator

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 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4372

Perspectives on Computational Quantum Chemistry

20 Dec 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Martin P. Head-Gordon

This presentation was one of 13 presentations in the one-day forum, "Excellence in Computer Simulation," which brought together a broad set of experts to reflect on the future of computational …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3726

Can numerical “experiments” INSPIRE physical experiments?

20 Dec 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Supriyo Datta

This presentation was one of 13 presentations in the one-day forum, "Excellence in Computer Simulation," which brought together a broad set of experts to reflect on the future of computational …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3716

Session 1: Discussion

19 Dec 2007 | Online Presentations

Discussion led by Mark Lundstrom, Purdue University.

https://nanohub.org/resources/3731

Computational Modeling: Experience from my Bell Lab Days

19 Dec 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

This presentation was one of 13 presentations in the one-day forum, "Excellence in Computer Simulation," which brought together a broad set of experts to reflect on the future of computational …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3633

TCAD Revisited, 2007: An Engineer’s Point of View

19 Dec 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Constantin Bulucea

This presentation was one of 13 presentations in the one-day forum, "Excellence in Computer Simulation," which brought together a broad set of experts to reflect on the future of computational …

https://nanohub.org/resources/3638

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: 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

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

Presentation Publishing on the nanoHUB

10 Jul 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Joseph M. Cychosz

This presentation gives a detailed overview of the process of creating an online presentation for the nanoHUB. It describes how to use Adobe-Macromedia's Breeze presentation tool in conjuction with …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2955

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

Technology challenges of the 21st Century

14 May 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Eugene S. Meieran

The 20th century was a century of remarkable scientific and technical achievement, as recorded in the National Academy of Engineering book, "A Century of Innovation". Three forces ("a perfect storm") …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2669

Atomistic Modeling of the Mechanical Properties of Nanostructured Materials

16 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): SeongJun Heo, Susan Sinnott

The mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes are studied by using classical molecular dynamics simulations. Especially, the effects of filling, temperature, and functionalization on CNT's tensional …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2604

Orientational Dependence of Friction in Polyethylene

16 Apr 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): SeongJun Heo

The frictional properties of polyethylene polymer are investigated by using classical molecular dynamics simulations. Especially, the sliding orientational effect is considered in this study. The …

https://nanohub.org/resources/2601

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

Team-based learning in a based learning in a nanotechnology course: Enhancing Enhancing critical thinking through course structure

04 Jan 2007 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Linda Vanasupa

https://nanohub.org/resources/2159