1. nano Education & Training Forum
nanoEducation and Training Forum
(nETF)
Adolfo Nemirovsky, Ph.D.
Enabling 21st Century Workforce for the Nanotechnology Revolution
nanoSIG

2. Miniaturization: Top-down Encounters Bottom-Up
Physics
Engineering
Top-down
Bottom-Up

3. State of Nanotech 2004
Approximately 1,500 total companies worldwide announced nanotechnology R&D plans.
Established corporations have spent more than $3.8 billion globally on nanotechnology R&D in 2004.
Governments, corporations and venture capitalists will spend more than $8.6 billion worldwide on nanotechnology R&D in 2004
The U.S. has now appropriated more than $3.16 billion to fund nanotechnology R&D 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

4. 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 – R&D, MFG
80,000
K-12

5. 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

6. Some Nano Companies Affymetrix Agilent Alnis Biosciences
Applied Biosystems Applied Materials Cambrios Chevron Texaco – Mol Diamonds
Duke Scientific Genencor General Nanotechnology HP IBM Almaden Labs Intel Intematix
Nanochip Nanoconduction
Nanogram
Nanomix Nanoplex Nanosys Nanosolar Nanostellar Nanotex Neophotonics Pacific Fuel Cell Polyfuel Surromed Ultradots

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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, …

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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