Interdisciplinary Team Wins NSF Grant
An interdisciplinary team of faculty from McMicken and the College of Engineering has been awarded an NSF Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education grant for its innovative proposal titled “Integration of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (INSITE) into Undergraduate Curricula. John Bickle, Suri Iyer, Thomas Mantei, and Leigh Smith worked with engineering faculty on the project designed to incorporate nanotechnology education into undergraduate curricula in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences and Engineering.
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