Background and Introduction:

In the Winter of 2003, thanks to the support of CT program at Union College, three of us, Mike Hagerman (Chemistry), Philip Kosky (Mechanical Engineering), and Seyffie Maleki (Physics) developed and taught a course (Frontiers of Nanotechnology) aimed at second year science and engineering students. The purpose of this course was to introduce our students to some of the basic topics in the emerging field of nanotechnology. Later that year we succeeded to obtain funding through a generous grant from the National Science Foundation (NUE- PHY-0304105) to create web-book modules that we and others could use in new and existing courses. This web page brings you to our modules.

Our course, Frontiers of Nanotechnology was taught a second time in 2004. In 2005 Palma Catravas (Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Brian Cohen (Biology) replaced Kosky and Maleki and brought new topics into this course. So, even though, like the field of nanotechnology, Union College's course remains fluid, we hope that the above modules continue to help students obtain an introduction to this exciting multidisciplinary field.