PHYS 180 - FS: First-year Seminar

Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring

PHYS 180: FS: Introduction to Nanoscience (4). First-year Seminar. Prerequisite: First-year class standing. An interdisciplinary introduction to the emerging field of nanoscience. The course covers a broad range of topics: fundamentals of nanoscience, self-assembled nanostructures with applications to nanomedicine, graphene, carbon nanotubes, quantum dots. Students discuss current and future nanotechnology applications in engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science, and gain experience in scientific writing, literature surveys, and improve their presentation skills. This course Includes traditional lectures as well as seminar-type workshops and “hands-on” lab projects using the scanning electron microscope and the thin-film lab on campus. (SL) I. Mazilu. Spring 2015 and alternate years