A.S. in Nanotechnology
A new degree at Ivy Tech
Community College
Curriculum Models
•Have used other community college – university partnerships as
curriculum models
•Chippewa Valley Technical College and University of
Wisconsin – Eau Claire
•Dakota County Technical College and University of
Minnesota – Minneapolis
•Bucks County Community College and Penn State University
Planned Curriculum
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CHEM 105/111
COMM 101
ENGL 111
ENGL 211
IVYT 1XX
MATH 136
MATH 137
PHYS 101
Elective
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NANO 101
NANO 102
NANO 201
NANO 211
NANO 221
NANO 231
NANO 241
NANO 251
NANO 271
NANO 299
Chemistry I
Fundamentals of Public Speaking
English Composition
Technical Writing
Life Skills Elective
College Algebra
Trig. w/Analytic Geometry
Physics I
Social Science/Humanities
Science/Technology Elective
Science/Technology Elective
Fundamentals of Nanotechnology I
Fundamentals of Nanotechnology II
Nanoelectronics
Intro to Materials Characterization
Nanoscience – Specialized Areas
Nanomaterials
Nanoscience Manufacturing
Micro and Nano Fabrication
Thin Film Deposition
Nanoscience Internship
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64-67
Nanotechnology Certificates
• What do we do for students in other STEM degree programs who
have an interest in Nanotechnology?
• Those students who are majoring in biotechnology, electronics,
electrical engineering technology, chemistry or physics will have an
opportunity
• There are planned certificates to allow non-nanotechnology majors
to take 4-6 classes in nanotechnology
Nanotechnology program approval steps
• The proposal was written by a group of administration and faculty to
include curriculum, employment opportunities, costs, student
demand, and fit to the Ivy Tech mission
• Administration approved from Ivy Tech’s north central region
• The Ivy Tech regional academic officers, chancellors and president
approved the proposal
• The regional board of trustees and state board of trustees approved
the proposal
• The Indiana Commission for Higher Education approved the
program in June of this year
• The process consumed more than a year to complete
Program implementation timing
• Approval by Indiana Commission for Higher Education in June, 2010
• Program Chair, Abdollah Aghdasi hired – March, 2011
• Nanotechnology students entering program – begun August, 2010
• First offering of Nanotechnology courses – August, 2011
• Have 19 students in first year, then growth after that
Educational Clean Room
• An educational clean room will be employed by Ivy Tech to provide
basic training in clean room protocol, use of training level imaging,
deposition and wet lab equipment
• Levels of clean room from “mock” to class 10,000
• Provide first year experience for Ivy Tech students
• Into second year, Ivy Tech students will be allowed to enter Notre
Dame clean rooms for lab exercises
– Notre Dame will charge Ivy Tech students internal fee for usage. This fee will be
built into tuition
– More advanced processes and research grade equipment will be utilized at Notre
Dame clean rooms.
Equipment Acquisition
Scanning Electron Microscope
Atomic Force Microscope
Thermal Evaporator
with sputtering
MKS Vacuum Trainer
University of Notre Dame support for Ivy Tech
Community College
 Faculty advice on lecture topics and lab skills
 Training of Ivy Tech students on the research tools used by
nanotechnologists and other educational opportunities
 Special presentations by Notre Dame faculty to Ivy Tech
students
 Low use rates for Ivy Tech students in Notre Dame labs
 Have been and will continue to be instrumental in curriculum
development advising
Penn State University Support for Program
• The NACK (Nanotechnology Applications & Career Knowledge)
center at Penn State
– Provides curriculum developed for community college level
students
– Provides instructor training
– Allows remote access to imaging equipment
– Found at http://www.nano4me.org
Collaborating with research universities to
apply for NSF grants
• Ivy Tech partnered with University of Notre Dame
• Submitted a proposal for transforming and disseminating
Nanotechnology Education at Ivy Tech
• Aghdasi as PI and 2 ND faculty member as co-PIs
• Grant was $200K if written just by a community college,
$250K if partnered with a four-year college
How the grant will be used
• 16 summer research fellowship to Ivy Tech students to conduct
research at co-PI’s labs in Notre Dame
• 2 undergraduate research assistantships
• Purchase of equipment:
-Two MJB3 Mask Aligners
- Zeiss Axiotron Optical Microscope
- Olympus BH2 Optical Microscope
• Stipend for Ivy Tech students to present on nanotechnology at local
high schools
• Workshops for high school students
• Summer salary for PI (3 months) and co-PIs (two weeks)
Transforming Ivy Tech-South Bend to
Central Midwest Hub for Nanotechnology
• Ivy Tech South-Bend collaborates with Penn
State to develop Central Midwest NACK
Network Site at South Bend
• Aghdasi co-PI in NSF proposal
• Ivy Tech’s share, $165K for three years
Developing Central Midwest NACK
Network
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Ivy Tech will offer a capstone semester of
nanotechnology courses for all 23 campuses at South
Bend
• Granting a Certificate in Nanotechnology
• Outreach to other colleges to encourage them to send
their students for this immersion experience to South
Bend
• Will integrate and institutionalize the capstone semester
into the Nanotechnology program
Partnering With Florida
International University
• Ivy Tech-South Bend is a partner in an NSF grant: “The
Nanosystems Engineering Research Center for NanoMagnetoelectronic Information Processing”
• Not a funded partner, but Ivy Tech students will have
research opportunities at Florida International University,
University of California Berkeley, University of
Minnesota, University of Houston
• Also research opportunities for faculty
How would you start a program?
• Get together in groups and answer the following
questions:
– Are you interested in pursuing this technology as a
degree or elective classes?
– Do you have a local university working on this
technology? Can you create a relationship?
– Are you interested in Ivy Tech-South Bend
nanotechnology capstone semester?
– Do you have experiences to share?