Nanotechnology Education for the Global World: Training the Leaders of Tomorrow.
Nanoscience is one of the fastest growing and most impactful fields in global scientific research. In order to support the continued development of nanoscience and nanotechnology, it is important that nanoscience education be a top priority to accelerate research excellence. In this Nano Focus, we discuss current approaches to nanoscience training and propose a learning design framework to promote the next generation of nanoscientists. Prominent among these are the abilities to communicate and to work across and between conventional disciplines. While the United States has played leading roles in initiating these developments, the global landscape of nanoscience calls for worldwide attention to this educational need. Recent developments in emerging nanoscience nations are also discussed. Photo credit: Jae Hyeon Park.
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University , 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798 Singapore.
Joshua A
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Jackman
Dong-Joon
DJ
Cho
College of Business, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology , 85 Hoegiro, Seoul 130-722, Korea.
Jaywon
J
Lee
Jia Ming
JM
Chen
Interdiscplinary Nanoscience Center, Aarhus University and Carlsberg Foundation, 2400 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Flemming
F
Besenbacher
Dawn A
DA
Bonnell
Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University , Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.
Mark C
MC
Hersam
Paul S
PS
Weiss
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University , 50 Nanyang Avenue, 639798 Singapore.|School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University , 62 Nanyang Drive, 637459 Singapore.
Nam-Joon
NJ
Cho