(23d) Integrating Nanofabrication Experiments into the Undergraduate Teaching Laboratory

Recently, through the support of an NSF-NUE grant, Bucknell has established a nanofabrication laboratory appropriate to the undergraduate setting. With the goal of advancing the Nanotechnology Educational Initiative in the College of Engineering, nanofabrication experiments have been designed for several courses in the undergraduate engineering curriculum at Bucknell, including ?Science of Materials? and ?Colloid, Surface & Nanoscience?. This talk will present the how the available nanofabrication facilities are incorporated across the engineering curricula, how faculty workshops and student internships have been utilized to integrate nanofabrication experiments in several disciplines, and how individual courses have been impacted. Using a project-based design approach, students are introduced to the methods and materials of fabrication simultaneously in the classroom and laboratory. Experiments designed for implementation in numerous teaching laboratories, appropriate to the undergraduate level, will be discussed. Specifically, an experiment in photolithography that uses inexpensive materials (UV-curable adhesive, glass slides, broad spectrum UV lamp) to demonstrate how a photomask is used to image a pattern on a substrate will be detailed.