National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network · 2008-12-05 · NNIN Semi-Annual Meeting Oct 2006...

NNIN Semi-Annual Meeting Oct 2006

National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

Nancy HealyNNIN Education Coordinator

Lynn Rathbun, Ph.DNNIN Program Manager

Education and Outreach Program

Best Practices

NSF Nanotechnology Grantees

Dec. 5, 2008


NNIN Education & Outreach

NNIN Education & Outreach

Encouraging STEM

Involvement

Assisting Workforce

Development

Distributed

Centrally Coordinated

Local and National Activities & Scope


Network Program Characteristics

Diversity of sites

Diversity of locales

Sites can incubate new

ideas/activities

Propagate successful activities to

other sites

Large and broad impact of

successful programs

Resource base

Visibility

Critical mass


Scope of NNIN Education and Outreach

Site Specific Activities Network-wide Activities

Local Local Activities – Site Specific Network Activities - Local Scope

Facility tours User support & training

Community days Diversity

Open house K-12 education- school programs

Seminars/Public lectures Summer & after school camps

School programs

National

Scope

Site Activities - National Scope Network Activities - National Scope

Workshops National Conferences & Meetings

Technical Training Research Experience for Undergrads

Teacher Training RET (NSF award)

Research Experience for Teachers NNIN Education portal

(initial program) User support

K-12 instructional materials Diversity

Hands-on demos & experiments Open Textbook

Undergraduate education Nanooze

NNIN programs reached >

15,000 individuals in 2007


Local Education Programs

Shared

activities

&

Experiences

K-12 Day CampsK-12 School Visits

Technical

Workshops

K-12 Teacher

Professional

Development

Workshops

Community

Days

Open House

Goal --Increasing “nano” knowledge

Excitement & support - STEM

NanoExpress

Seminars

Short Courses

Coordination

Information Exchange

Tracking

Education Events Manager


NanoExpress @ Howard University

NanoExpress is a mobile laboratory. Experimental areas for visitors to

explore nanotechnology – nanoparticles, micro/nano-fabrication,

instrumentation, self-assembly, & characterization.


NNIN National Network Programs

REU

LEF

iWSG

RET

iREU

Nanooze

Nanotechnology Showcase

Laboratory Experience for Faculty

International Winter School

Research Experience for Teachers

International REU

Research Experience for Undergraduates

Conferences and Workshops

Nanooze

Recurring Themes

Pipeline

Diversity

Global awareness

Synergies


Research Experience for UndergraduatesAn Activity of the NNIN Education & Outreach Program

Degrees

Terminal B.S. 14%

Terminal M.S. 20%

Ph.D. 47%

J.D./MBA 5%

M.D. 5%

Type of Career

Science Career 95%

Nanotechnology

Career 48%

Longitudinal Study of REU Outcomes

75-90 participants

12-14 sites

10 weeks

High Quality, Diverse

Projects

Presentations Publications

End of Program Network Convocation

REU Research

Accomplishments

Instruction ,Mentoring &

Advanced Instrumentation

iREU

Highly Coordinated Among Sites

Common on-line application

Central award process

Common expectations and procedures

Strong, Diverse Applicant Pool


Developing Globally Aware Scientists

NNIN iREUAn activity of the NNIN Education and Outreach Program

Advanced “REU-like”

experience in an International

laboratory

Only alumni of the NNIN REU

program are eligible

2nd summer advanced program

8 participants in 2008

National Institute of Materials

Science in Tsukuba, Japan

Forshungszentrum Jülich,

Germany

National Institute of Materials Science

Tsukuba, Japan

Forshungzentrum Jülich (Germany)

Funded by NSF/NNIN, NSF/IRES, NSF/IREE

Jülich


iWGS: Graduate Education for

Global Awareness

Goal: Bring global and societal awareness to a select group of graduate students by

combining a semester-scale one-week course with an additional week in a setting where

the technology is employed

12 US students, 7 US faculty, 45 local participants

Organic Electronics and

Optoelectronics at IIT Kanpur; Host:

Prof. S.S.K. Iyer (2008/09)

1 week Advanced Technical Classes

1 week Field Experience in technology deployment

Science and Technology of

Nanofabrication; at IISc; Bangalore,

Host: Prof. N. Bhat (2009/10)

NanoElectronics; at IIT Mumbai;

Host: Prof. J. Vasi (2010/11)

NanoScale and Organic/Inorganic

Interfaces: Fluidics, Interfaces &

Applications in Filtration and

Diagnostics at IIT, Kanpur; Host:

Prof. A. Sharma (2011/12)

In discussion:

Nigeria (2012/13)

Technical faculty

and SEI faculty


Research Experience for Teachers in NanotechnologyAn Activity of the NNIN Education and Outreach Program

REU-like experience for

teachers

leverage

5 NNIN sites

Research and Activity

development

Activities are distributed via

NNIN education web site

Major portion of the available

NNIN resource material

Shared among sites

An activity of the Education Program of NNIN, the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

Funded by the National Science Foundation as part of ECS-335765 Sandip Tiwari , Cornell, PI , and as RET

site award EEC-0601939, Nancy Healy, Ga. Tech, PI.


Nanotechnology Showcase for StudentsAn NNIN Education/Diversity Program

Nanotechnology Demonstrations & Activities

• AFM

• STM

• SEM

• Microfluidics

• MEMS

• Nanotechnology Products

• Shape Memory Alloys

Target Audience: Curious

Undergraduates

Technology Lectures

Technology Demonstrations

Dozen NNIN staff

Dozen cases of demonstration

equipment

Venue: National undergraduate

technical conferences

SHPE

NSBE


Laboratory Experience for Faculty

Goal – Encourage

underrepresented participation in

STEM & Nano

NNIN sites – 8

weeks

$12K support –

travel, stipend,

housing

NNIN sites –

training, technical

support &

resources

LEF 2008

Minority Faculty

or

Faculty from MSI

Spellman College – Georgia Tech

U. Puerto Rico Mayaguez – Cornell

U. Texas El Paso – U. Texas

U. Texas El Paso – U. Texas

Shaw University - Cornell


50,000 printed copies of each issue

distributed to classrooms

Exciting, Educating, and Challenging both Students and their Teachers

about Science and Nanotechnology in Today’s World.

The NNIN Science

News Magazine for Kids

Technology articles

News articles

Interviews with scientists

Blog

Games

High quality graphics

How many “pixels” are in your eye?

What is nano about your sense of smell?

On the web at www.nanooze.org, in

English, Spanish, and Portuguese

A project of NNIN and Cornell University

Prof. Carl Batt, Editor and Chief Author

Written “kid style”

http://www.nanooze.org/


NNIN Education Program

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>750 student and

professional

participants/year

(2-3 day hands-on

events)>10,000

visitors to

NNIN

educational

events

Globally-aware

leadership skills

for US Grad

Students

For 3rd to 6th

grades10,000-100,000

webvisits /month

50,000Printed

copies used in

classrooms

Lab exposure to

thousands of

students per year>500 urm & other undergrads/year

Advanced research

experience for 10

students in an

international

environment

5 minority faculty

per year

---Leverage to

thousands

25 teachers per

year

--Leverage to

thousands

Central Coordination but not Management

Distributed Sites

Work with sites strengths/weaknesses not against

Critical mass

Sharing of Resources/Experiences

Assessment at the Network Level

Leverage

Synergies


Synergies within the Network Education Program

at the undergrad/grad/professional level

LEF

Graduate

SchoolUser Program

iREU/2REU

iWSGRET

REUNanotechnology

Showcase

Workshops

(activity

development)


Synergies within the Network Education Program

at the K-12 level

Classroom

activities

on web

Nanoexpress

RET

Camps, clubs

and afterschool

Teacher

workshops

Community

activitiesCollege in

STEM field

Science &

Engineering

Pipeline

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