1. What is a Postdisciplinary Engineer?
A postdisciplinary engineer can do all aspects of a problem, if given enough time and resources, whereas an interdisciplinary engineer is a jack of many trades and master of > 1 but not necessarily able to do “everything”
Jim Brenner
Florida Tech

2. Nanoscience and Technology Minor Curriculum
Minor Courses Year # of Credits
Nanotechnology Lab I (CHE/CHM 1091) Fresh
Materials Characterization Lab (CHE 4563) Jr. – Grad. Stud
Nanotechnology (CHE 4567/5567) Jr. – Grad. Stud
Materials Science & Engineering (CHE 3260) Soph
Biomaterials (BME 3260 or CHE/BME 5300) Soph. or Sr./Grad
Tissue Engg. (BME 5569/4569) Sr. - Grad. Stud Independent Study (CHE 4291) or UG Research Jr.-Sr > 3
Nanotechnology Lab II (CHE 3091) Soph. – Grad. Stud
Quantum Mechanics (PHY 3035) Jr./Sr
Physical Chemistry 2 (CHM 3002) Jr./Sr
The Basics of Making (CHE/BME 4568/5568) Jr./Sr./Grad. Stud
Biochemistry (BIO 4010) Jr./Sr
Materials Lab (CHE 3265) Soph
Physics 2 Lab (PHY 2092) Soph
BME Measure. & Instr. Lab (BME 4253) Sr
Long list of Nanotech Electives Jr./Sr
1st group: All; 2nd Group: > 3 credits; 3rd Group: 1-2 credits; Total of > 18 credits
One of only six undergrad
nanotech minor programs
in US when instituted
More labs than anyone else
People use their
curiosity in
nanotechnology to
discover scientific
principles (i.e. make
intellectual connections)
that form the
basis for engineers to
maximize surface area
to volume ratio to
create value for customers
Program was lacking skills
on how to build equipment

3. Julia Worrell & Athela Frandsen Came Back for a SpaceX Rocket Launch in 2/18
Julia and Athela were
two ChE roommates
from the first incoming
class of Nanotech
Minor students. Julia,
now working at
Johnson Space Center,
was here to see SpaceX
launch her wearable
sensor-embedded space suit. Three students from their CHE 1101 class had picked this project way back then.
And it was time for me to tell them about our recent changes, the ones you are hearing now.

4. We Are The Music Makers, and We Are the Dreamers of Dreams
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1973)
When I was in grad school at The University of
Michigan, they hired Mark Burns, who had this
brilliant idea to use music to actuate microscale
valves in what was then a brand new field
called lab-on-a-chip devices. I was reminded
of how Willy Wonka had a musical lock to his
“Inventing Room”.

5. If you build it, people will come. They will most definitely come.
Field of Dreams (1989),
If you build it, people will come. They will most definitely come.

6. CHEMICAL/ELECTROCHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL REACTOR INSTRUMENTATION
Heating Jacket Aquarium
Reactor A B C D E F G I H
Legend:
A: Liquid Level Sensor E: Oxidation/Reduction Potential H: Aquarium Liquid Temperature Sensor
B: Reactor Temperature Sensor F: Glucose Concentration Sensor I: Aquarium Ambient Temperature Sensor
C: pH Sensor G: Lactate Concentration Sensor J: Fiber Optic LED Microscope Camera
D: Conductivity Sensor Not shown: Flow Totalizer K: Dissolved Oxygen Sensor
Bioreactor Add-on
Microscope
Load Cell
CHEMICAL/ELECTROCHEMICAL/BIOLOGICAL
REACTOR INSTRUMENTATION J K
Full mass and energy balance accounting – which virtually no tissue engineering faculty anywhere do!

7. LabSmith Collaboration
LabSmith Education Kit Reynolds Number worksheet.pdf
Syringe Pumps
Valve Control
3-Way Valves
5 mL Waste/Product Tank
Communicates with
Computer to Control Everything
1 mL Feed Tank
1/16” PEEK Tubing
Laminar Flow
Visualization
Lab-on-a-Chip
Being Added on 2nd Board:
Chem/Bio/Electrochemical
Reactor with In Situ
Concentration Analysis
“Free” ($3K) Kit in Exchange for
Beta-Testing Results for Their
NSF SBIR + Reactor Prototype
LabSmith specializes in microfluidic flows that are key to lab-on-a-chip and organ-on-a-chip devices. What we will build in my new automated tissue engineering test bed project won’t be as small as I would like it to be, but it will be a baby step toward that eventual goal.
Julia Worrell: I wish we had this back when I was a student!

8. Florida Tech's Current KEEN Grant
EML = Entrepreneurially-Minded Learning
Providing evidence for EML integration into making
Connecting to the making world
How should EML be integrated into making?
Contributing to the Making World
How may we enable faculty/staff to integrate EML into making?
Disseminating to the Making World
Together, we will make connections and establish best (and worst) practices to create value for the entire KEEN network so that no one has to re-invent the wheel and so that aspiring engineers can satisfy their curiosity through prototype construction

9. Year 1 Goals – How to Integrate EML into Making Environments
Survey to identify key players in making are at each KEEN school
More in depth survey (summer) that can be built into end-of-year 1 report to be presented at Jan KEEN Conference about possible pathways to successful making environments --> This creates value for the entire KEEN network by reducing the learning curve.
Same summer survey used to determine partners for Year 2 tool development with follow-up visit to possible partners partly to complete survey more thoroughly and partly to identify proper partners and tools

10. Education Literature Co-Developed Tools
Review Articles
Benefits, Implications, & Challenges
- Benefits, Implications, & Challenges of 3D Printers
- Effect on Creative Thinking
- MakerSpace Startup Requirements & Options
- Open Source vs. Exclusivity in Sharing Economies
- Importance of Community & Psychological Benefits
How Makers Think
- Unique Aspects of a Maker's Mindset
- STEM Literacy Practices of Experienced Makers

11. Education Literature Co-Developed Tools
Conversion of Thought to Design
- Effect on Creative Thinking
- Design for Additive Manufacturing FIT?
- AR/VR Library Spaces FIT?
What Should Be in Each Making Environment
- MakerSpace Startup Requirements & Options Year 1 Report - end of 2019
- Pre-College
- FabLab Business Models
- Small Business's Opinions Regarding Makerspaces
Business Aspects
- Open Source vs. Exclusivity in Sharing Economies

12. Education Literature Co-Developed Tools
How to Teach the Content
- One Week Summer Short Courses (often to high schoolers)
- 2-3 Hour Workshops (a la carte or as part of a series) FIT?
- Zero Credit Machine Shop Certification Courses
- Three-Credit Semester-Long Courses FIT?
General Engineering Customers vs.
Discipline-Specific Customers
Consolidated Space vs. Distributed Spaces

13. What Should a “Maker Engineer” Be Able to Do?
A maker who is not an engineer is a glorified handyman/technician
An engineer who can design but not build can have a service but can’t make a product
Entrepreneurially-Minded Learning Course CAD Drawing
Data Acquisition & Control / Test Stands Process Flowsheeting
Freshman, Senior, (& more?) Design Experiences Machine Shop Skills
Signals & Systems or Mechatronics Computer Programming
Advanced Visualization Course MakerSpace Skills

14. Expectations for a Postdisciplinary Engineer
A postdisciplinary engineer can do all aspects of a problem, if given enough time and resources, whereas an interdisciplinary engineer is a jack of many trades and master of > 1 but not necessarily able to do “everything”
All “Maker” Skills on prior slide Thermodynamics
Conservation of Mass, Energy & Momentum Reactor Design
Ability to Manage People and Projects Ability to Market a Product
Fluid Mechanics, Heat & Mass Transfer Process Control
Excel, Plotting, Curve Fitting, & Statistics Can Give a PowerPoint Talk
Sufficient Materials Background to Know What Tools to Use to Assess Success
Knowledge of Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science & Biology
Ability to See How the Field Will Change Before It Does

15. Proposed 3 Credit General Engg. Elective: The Basics of Making Syllabus
National Instruments LabView Basics: Common variable types, IF/THEN/ELSE, DO
and WHILE loops, data acquisition and control (DAQ) hardware
2) Same computing concepts in C++ and G code (for 3D printing)
3) Wiring light bulb circuit (no longer in Materials Lab), soldering, & intro to breadboard
circuit concepts in TinkerCAD
4) Wiring breadboard circuits using Arduinos: Blinking LED, resistor circuit,
resistor/capacitor circuit, & intro to light Arduino computer programming
5) Arduino/LabView DAQ for temperature, liquid level, pH, electrical conductivity,
dissolved O2, oxidation/reduction potential, flow rate, servo motors, stepper motors
6) Concentration monitoring using RodeoStat potentiostat
7) A) Robot testing using Python; B) LabSmith microfluidic flow kit – assemble & test
8) CAD Drawing
9) & 10) CAD to .stl, 3D Printing
11) Speaker box assembly to combine all prior skills
12) Poster/demo contest for function & creativity to engender entrepreneurial mindset
Use of Monopoly money to simulate both customer interest & attractiveness to investors
Exercise: Build Yourself a Suitable Education (with Legos) - attribution to Erin Jablonski (Bucknell)

16. Non-Engineering Part of An Honors Program for Maker Engineers
Mindset & Value Creation Builders
Entrepreneurially-Minded Learning (EML): KEEN values of curiosity, connections, and creating value (1st yr.)
HU/SS “Capstone” course: history of science and engineering, economic models and philosophies relevant to entrepreneurship, cost/benefit analysis and risk minimization, return on investment calculations and sensitivity analyses, application of science fiction, Pinterest surveys, and an understanding of current technologies to predict likely innovations and/or inventions and their impacts, people and project management strategies, and business and/or research proposal plan development. The final project for the class will be the creation of a 3-minute video summarizing their idea and a Shark Tank Q&A.
Idea and Community Connection Builder
Dorm-level programming of History Channel/How It's Made/Sci-Fi TV/Movies chosen to complement the mindset builders that begins with an Honors Program RA summarizing the reasons why that night's programming is part of the program, followed by the TV/video, and ending with a group discussion.
Community Connection Builder
Honors Program students serve as makerspace assistants when class isn't in session until late PM
Curiosity Builder
Invite faculty to attend dorm-level programming and/or makerspace to attract research students & to design/build prototypes