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Advanced Technology Education Steve Fonash Director

The Mission of NACK is to enable Nanotechnology Education at. 2-year Community and Technical Colleges4-year small Universities and Colleges. NACK Objectives. Share the facilities, technical staff, and expertise of Penn State with college and university partners across the nation to bring hands-on, state-of-the art, nanotechnology courses and degree programs to every section of the US Empower students across the US with a broad approach to nanotechnology giving them the basis for a lifetime of adapting and learning.

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Advanced Technology Education Steve Fonash Director

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    1. Advanced Technology Education Steve Fonash Director NSF National Center for Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge (NACK) Penn State University

    3. The Mission of NACK is to enable Nanotechnology Education at 2-year Community and Technical Colleges 4-year small Universities and Colleges

    4. NACK Objectives Share the facilities, technical staff, and expertise of Penn State with college and university partners across the nation to bring hands-on, state-of-the art, nanotechnology courses and degree programs to every section of the US Empower students across the US with a broad approach to nanotechnology giving them the basis for a lifetime of adapting and learning

    6. The NACK Approach is Based on Six Key Principles

    7. #1 Meaningful nanotechnology education must be a hands-on exposure to synthesis/fabrication techniques used to build and to characterization tools used to “see” at the nano-scale.

    8. #2 Meaningful nanotechnology education requires a partnership among 2-year and 4-year degree institutions and a research intensive university. It requires resource-sharing.

    9. #3 Give students a broad, hands-on nanotechnology education on which they can build for their professional lifetime. Do not train students for an industry.

    10. #4 Do not create a whole nanotechnology curriculum. Instead, use existing courses and build onto them a “Capstone Course Set” ( 18 credits) sprinkled across several semesters or concentrated in one semester

    11. #5 Use a Skill Set prerequisites approach for the Capstone Course Set, not a course prerequisites approach.

    12. #6 Give two-year degree graduates in-place pathways which they can follow to four-year nanotechnology-based degrees, if they so choose.

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    22. Where We’re Going Offering our resource-sharing approach to the nation—the National Science Foundation National Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge (NACK) Center

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