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Kannan Krishnan
MSE 498
Seattle Campus
Special topics in materials science and engineering offered as a course with lectures, conferences, or laboratory. Offered: AWSpS.
Class description
The course will provide a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly developing field of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. It will emphasize cooperative learning approaches involving strong student participation with team assignments and will be supplemented by select lectures and laboratory visits. Topics to be addressed include characteristic length scales determining materials behavior; fundamental phenomena as a function of size and reduced dimensionality; the role of surfaces; different synthesis routes including self-assembly and lithography; and characterization of nanostructures by scattering, spectroscopy and imaging using electron, photon and scanning probes. The course will conclude with a discussion of novel properties and applications of nanoscale systems including electronics, information storage and bioengineering.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
The course will emphasize cooperative learning approaches involving strong student participation with team assignments and will be supplemented by select lectures and laboratory visits. The class of 25 students will be divided into five groups. Discussions will be carried out within the groups, but all reports and presentations will be submitted individually. The course will be supported by the staff of the Engineering and iSchool Writing Center ( www.uwtc.washington.edu/resources/eiwc ) who will assist the students individually, if necessary, with their writing assignments. All students will be required to meet with EiWC staff to write their first module report. This course will also satisfy the University intensive writing requirement.
Recommended preparation
Class assignments and grading
The goals of the writing assignments are to synthesize related readings and present a precise and coherent narrative answering the thematic question of each module. A detailed outline of the format for the written report will be available on the first day of class.
There will be no exams and grades will be assigned based on 5 reports (each 5 pages maximum) and one individual presentation (10 minutes).
