<p>I was planning on getting a Degree in Nanotechnology. I don’t want to do research or anything, just use it in a Business World.</p>
<p>I know many colleges don’t offer Degrees in that field.</p>
<p>Can people help me out here on What colleges currently have a Program and what plan to offer it (at least by 2010)</p>
<p>i think USC does. if not a major, then i know it at least offers a minor.</p>
<p>Very few major universities offer a BS in nanotechnology but you can major in an engineering field and take a lot of tech classes related to nanotechnology.</p>
<p>How many colleges actually have Nanotech courses ?</p>
<p>Anyone have a clue ?</p>
<p>Cornell probably has the leading nanotechnology offerings in the country.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.cns.cornell.edu/nanotechcurriculum.html[/url]”>http://www.cns.cornell.edu/nanotechcurriculum.html</a></p>
<p>How many colleges offer nanotechnology courses? Thousands.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nanotech-now.com/academic.htm[/url]”>http://www.nanotech-now.com/academic.htm</a></p>
<p>Why don’t you give us a little more information to narrow down your potentials.</p>
<p>Check this out at Rochester Institute of Technology:</p>
<p><a href=“Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering | College of Engineering | RIT”>Department of Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering | College of Engineering | RIT;
<p>Mike, That’s pretty much. Use Nanotechnology in a business world. What information do you need ? And thanks for the link.</p>
<p>Please see my post of last year for information. By now there will be more schools offering such courses.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...nanotechnology[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...nanotechnology</a></p>
<p>I think Rice University</p>
<p>The link I posted didn’t work, so here is the text of my post, which is about 1 1/2 years old. There are no doubt more colleges and universities offering programs today than in 2005 but I think that nanotechnology majors are still almost totally confined to graduate school</p>
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<p>Cornell has a large, new building devoted to nanotechnology fabrication labs: Duffield Hall. The building is split between electrical eng, materials science, and applied and engineering physics. Nanotech is an interdisciplinary field that is not yet recognized as a separate discipline by itself.</p>
<p>Thanks for all your help guys.</p>
<p>Is majoring in the field such a good idea (at least in 3 years).</p>
<p>For the most part, perhaps even in all cases, schools do not offer a major in nanotechnology. That’s partly because this is not yet a clearly defined field and partly because the schools are not yet staffed to do it. Those schools that do offer it give it as a concentration in an established field (for instance, materials science, chemical engineering or some interdisciplinary major) at the graduate level.</p>
<p>My advice to everyone considering majoring in a strongly technical subject like this is to do it only if you are interested in working as a professional (engineer, etc.) in that field. Otherwise you will be spending the greater part of four (or possibly more) years taking classes in difficult subjects that you may not like. If you are interested in a business career, take your major in that. You can read enough about nanotechnology on your own or perhaps take a course or two offered for non-science majors (quite possibly in a university extension school) that will give you enough knowledge of the field to be able to use it in business. If you need more detailed information about some apect of nanotechnology, you can always consult with an expert in that field.</p>
<p>One of the expressions that’s most often encountered in life is “It seemed like a good idea at the time.” Don’t mess up your college years and the chance to enjoy the experience by majoring in a subject that you don’t like all that much just because it seems like a good idea. Look into it a lot more.</p>
<p>And good luck.</p>
<p>Thanks for the info. I really want to gain enough knowledge in Nanotechnology (enough meaning as much as a professional) before taking it into a business career. So is it really a good idea to do something like that ?</p>
<p>If that’s what you want to do, and if engineering or science is interesting enough to you (and if you can do the math required for these technical courses) then prepare to go through at least an MS degree to have any competence in nanotechnology (which, by the way, is not at all a single field but can involve areas of chemistry, biotechnology, chemical engineering and/or physics).</p>
<p>I’m aware of this dadofsam, I was planning on something like biotechnology.</p>
<p>Schools with strong chemistry AND material sciences are usual suspects. Couple people suggested Cornell. Northwestern is another school that’s strong in both of these and biomedical engineering. It’s one of the national centers for nanotech. <a href=“International Institute for Nanotechnology - Advancing Nanotechnology Research and Education”>International Institute for Nanotechnology - Advancing Nanotechnology Research and Education; </p>
<p>I’d be surprised if schools like Berkeley and Stanford aren’t among the strongest but whether there are many opportunities for undergrads and courses available to them is another issue.</p>
<p>Majoring in nanotechnology is an absolute waste of time, in my opinion, because the field is really at the stage of “nanoscience” and not “nanotechnology” for any practical purpose. The nanotechnologies that are real and happening now are more related to the field of chemistry, but the really interesting stuff looks like it will happen in the area of nanobiotechnology.</p>
<p>The deepest base of “nanotech” firms and “nanotech” focused venture money is in the San Francisco Bay Area with Berkeley and Stanford predictably taking lead roles in the spinning out of these companies. So you might be able to get interesting internships if you are really interested in pursuing nanotech as a whole.</p>
<p>I would recommend, if you are that interested, get a grounding in physics and chemistry, with engineering classes and biology added into the mix later. Nanotech is a very as-yet-undefined-but-overly-hyped field and you don’t want to be a generalist. You want your career rooted in an aspect of it that really interests you.</p>
<p>From what I understand, the great research universities (CalTech, MIT, Berkeley, etc.) are taking the approach of training future nanotechnologists by adding in “nanotech” faculty to existing departments.</p>
<p>Avoid the hype: nanotech has been oversold, not in terms of its potential, but in terms of the potential it offers for someone who is not at the frontiers of physics, chemistry, or biology playing a meaningful role beyond that of a lab tech…</p>