From Nanofabrication to Nanomanufacturing - Webinar

Complimentary webinar sponsored by the ASME NanoEngineering Council
Date:  Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Time:  10:00 am PST/1:00 pm EST
Speaker:  Hanchen Huang, UCONN

Overview:
Manufacturing is a key element of mechanical engineering, and means jobs. While conventional manufacturing has experienced outsourcing, nanomanufacturing could root in the United States due to its reliance on science and technology. Nanomanufacturing will be important to many technologies, such as sustainable energy. However, a gap still exists between nanofabrication and nanomanufacturing. The fabrication of nanomaterials is commonplace in many academic research laboratories, and it has resulted in a large variety of intriguing morphologies or structures. On the other hand, scientific principles of the fabrication are not always understood and their growth is often accompanied by many other varieties. As a result, mass production or manufacturing of controlled nanostructures is hardly feasible. For energy applications, it is necessary to achieve mass production of pre-designed nanomaterials in a controllable fashion. The key to transitioning from prevalent nanofabrication to future nanomanufacturing relies on two concerted efforts: (1) research focused on fundamental principles of nanostructure growth in contrast to empirical growth of beautiful nanostructures, and (2) synergy of nanotechnology and more mature mechanical engineering such as control technology.

What You Will Learn:
(a) An introduction to nanomanufacturing in relevance to sustainable energy,
(b) Examples of the concerted efforts mentioned above, and
(c) Challenges and opportunities

Who Should Attend:
(a)  Researchers (grad students and post-docs and faculty members) interested in materials for clean/sustainable energy,
(b)  Program managers in funding agencies, and
(c)  Engineers in the clean/sustainable energy industry.

• Course Type: Webinar
• Course Number: KCWNANO
• Language: English