Education

UIUC Workshop 2002The NCN educational program aims to:

  1. facilitate the application of computation to problems in nanotechnology
  2. encourage the use of simulation by educators and students
  3. attract young people to careers in nanoscience

An annual Summer School on Computational Nanotechnology introduces users to computational nanotechnology, releases new software tools, trains users to operate specific software tools and educates them on the underlying theory and numerical approaches. An annual "software boot camp" teaches computing and software engineering fundamentals to the NCN's graduate students. Web-based technologies are used so that these courses and short courses are captured as a permanent educational resource - available to students at any time from anywhere. Lectures will be available bon-line by video streaming and all of the laboratory exercises will accessible through the nanoHUB.