Trans-disciplinary Graduate and Refresher Programs for Education, Research and Training in the Fields of Nanoscience and
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Trans-disciplinary Graduate and Refresher Programs for Education, Research and Training in the Fields of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Tadashi Itoh,1,2 * Hisazumi Akai,1,3 Hisahito Ogawa,1 Wilson Agerico Diño,1,3 and Satoshi Ichikawa,1,3 1 Organization for the Promotion of Research on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan 2 Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan 3 Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
ABSTRACT Nanoscience is an area that promises a new understanding of nature, while nanotechnology is the use of nanoscience to build new technologies that will change the world. It has captured the attention of the public, government, and industrial corporations. How it will influence our lives will depend on how we prepare ourselves and our successors. Here we present a brief outline of our effort of education, research and training being taken trans-disciplinarily at Osaka University since 2004, in order to prepare our future scientists, engineers, and industrial leaders in the rapidly flourishing fields of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
INTRODUCTION The emerging field of nanoscience and nanotechnology is leading to a technological revolution in the 21st century. The application of nanotechnology has enormous potential to greatly influence the scientific world in which we live. From consumer goods, electronics, computers, information and biotechnology, to aerospace defense, energy, environment, and medicine, all sectors of the economy will be profoundly affected by nanotechnology. Advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology promise to have major implications for health, wealth, and peace in the upcoming decades. Knowledge in this field is leading to fundamental scientific advances. In turn, this will lead to dramatic changes in the ways that materials, devices, and systems are understood and created. Research and development in nanotechnology is likely to change the traditional practices of design, analysis, measurement and manufacturing for a wide range of engineering products. This impact creates a challenge for the academic community to educate [science, engineering and other bioscience] students with the necessary knowledge, understanding, and skills to interact and provide leadership in the emerging world of nanotechnology. Nanoscience and nanotechnology do not fit within any of the conventional scientific disciplines. Thus, scientists and engineers developing nanoscience and nanotechnology need to be aware of a broader and more varied range of subjects than those included in the usual departmental curricula. For example, scientists interested in nanoelectronic devices should be aware of the types of functional nanostructures found in cells, and familiar with the concepts and capabilities of colloid chemistry and self-assembly.
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Developing the educational system to educate, research and train in these areas will require substantial changes in t
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