Nanotechnology: The Basics. About the Course Nanotechnology is an exciting research area that spans disciplines from electrical engineering to biology.
Over the last two decades the basic science of this area has launched new technologies, the first examples of which are finding their way into commercial products. This four week course will provide students with a bird's eye view into this fast moving area and leave students with an appreciation of the importance and foundation of super-small materials and devices. Course Syllabus Nanotechnology: The BasicsWeek 1: Small, strange and useful! How Things Work 1. Chemistry: Concept Development and Application. This course will cover an introduction to the atomic molecular structure of matter, similar to a typical first semester General Chemistry course.
The fundamental concepts will be introduced via the Concept Development Approach developed at Rice University and utilizing a free on-line textbook, Concept Development Studies in Chemistry, available via Rice’s Connexions project. In this approach, rather than simply telling you the concepts you need to know and then asking you to memorize them or apply them, we will develop these concepts from experimental observations and scientific reasoning. There are several reasons for using this approach. One reason is that most of us our inductive learners, meaning that we like to make specific observations and then generalize from there. Instant Anatomy. TED - Education. In Education.