nanoEducation and Training Forum?

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• nanoEducation and Training Forum?
• (nETF?)

Adolfo Nemirovsky, Ph.D.
www.Nanoedu.org
Enabling 21st Century Workforce for the
Nanotechnology Revolution
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Miniaturization Top-down Encounters Bottom-Up
Physics Engineering
Top-down
Bottom-Up
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State of Nanotech 2004

• Approximately 1,500 total companies worldwide
  announced nanotechnology RD plans.
• Established corporations have spent more than
  3.8 billion globally on nanotechnology RD in
  2004.
• Governments, corporations and venture capitalists
  will spend more than 8.6 billion worldwide on
  nanotechnology RD in 2004
• The U.S. has now appropriated more than 3.16
  billion to fund nanotechnology RD since 2000 and
  is proposing 982 million in new funding for FY
  2005.
• 40,000 US scientists
• 800,000 US workers needed to support 1T in 2015
  (NSF)
• Source The Nanotech Report 2004

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Workforce Development Job Generation
Execs 1,000
Education Training

Professional
Engineers Managers Scientists 10,000
Graduate
Undergraduate
Technicians Senior 20,000
Technical Institutes
Community Colleges
Technicians RD, MFG 80,000
K-12
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Industrial Nano Jobs - 2005

• CareerBuilding Jan 31, 2005
• 9 positions with Keyword nanotechnology
• 1,074 positions with Keyword semiconductor
• Where are the nano jobs? Industries
• Biotech
• IT
• Telecom
• Consumer Goods
• Defense
• Energy
• Environment
• Transportation

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Some Nano Companies

• Affymetrix
• Agilent
• Alnis Biosciences
• Applied BiosystemsApplied MaterialsCambriosChe
  vron Texaco Mol Diamonds
• Duke ScientificGenencorGeneral
  NanotechnologyHPIBM Almaden LabsIntelIntematix
  

• NanochipNanoconduction
• Nanogram
• NanomixNanoplexNanosysNanosolarNanostellarNa
  notexNeophotonicsPacific Fuel
  CellPolyfuelSurromedUltradots

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Typical Industrial Nano Jobs - 2005

• Process engineer
• Device engineer
• Sensor engineer
• Software engineer
• Electrical design
• Electrochemical engineer
• Polymer chemist
• Analytical chemist
• Biological Microscopist
• Scientist Gene Expression
• Biz development
• Manufacturing, BioProcess
• Environmental monitoring specialist

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Nano Education Requirements

• Core Disciplines
• Math
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Biology
• Computer Science
• Laboratories
• Imaging/Metrology
• Wet Dry Materials Device Fabrication
• Wet Biotechnology
• Software/Design/System
• Mix of technical, business, entrepreneurial
  skills
• Based on inputs from HP, Nanosys, Stanford, NASA

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Teaching Philosophy

• Learn by doing, have fun
• Hands on is key, not be afraid of mistakes
• Learn how to work with others
• Across disciplines, across cultures,
• Learn how to ask the right questions
• Are you attacking the right problem?
• Balancing act self-sufficient vs. collaboration
• Take initiative, but do not reinvent wheel (no
  time!)
• Modeling systems
• Simple estimations, order of magnitude, scaling,
  simulation,

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Nano-education Programs in N. CA

• Foothill College
• NASA/Ames
• Nanosense, SRI
• Center on Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular
  Assemblies, Stanford
• Center for Probing the Nanoscale, Stanford
• Stanford Nanofabrication Facility (SNF)
• Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems, UCB
• Nano High, UCB - LBNL
• Berkeley Nanotechnology Club

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Resources of Northern CA

• Academic UCB, UCD, UCSF, Stanford, USF, UCSC,
  SCU, SJSU . . .
• Research LBL, LLNL, SRI, NASA Ames, PARC, SRI .
  . .
• Corporate Agilent, Applied Materials,
  Genentech, HP, IBM, Intel . . .
• Environment Worlds Most Productive Workforce.
• World Entrepreneurial Center
• Major Private Equity Funds
• Best Professional Services
• Infrastructure Corporate headquarters locations
• Large scale manufacturing
• Light industrial
• Professional

Top resources but still coordination is lacking
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Community College Challenges

• Leverage existing resources
• Provide interdisciplinary development
• Introduce nanoscale concepts across curriculum
• Focus on nano skills for research manufacturing
• Bring corporate sponsorship/partnerships to
  develop high tech skill levels in manufacturing
  sector
• Prepare nanotech workforce at many levels
• Include social, ethical and legal implications
• and public outreach to build taxpayer support