ASME summer bootcamp promises hands-on nanotechnology experience

Emily M. Smith
ASME NEWS

With preparations for ASME's Third Nano Training Bootcamp underway, two features for this year's event will be new: the offer of a hands-on practical experience and an invitation to companies with nano products they would like to highlight to become corporate sponsors.

The aim of ASME's bootcamp is to offer a detailed account, based on tutorials, of advances in fundamentals related to nanoscience in a variety of fields. Prospects for translating any advances into useful technologies is also part of the goal.

The Third Nano Training Bootcamp will take place July 12-15 at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

Intense sessions, given by experts in academia and industry, will focus on nano characterization, solids and devices, societal impact, and fluids/synthesis devices.

The hands-on experience will be offered in the five laboratories contained in Howard University's Nanoscale Science and Engineering Facility (HNF). That facility is an established centralized user facility containing more than $10 million of micro and nano fabrication and characterization equipment.

HNF has integrated facilities in these categories: lithography, nanofabrication, plasma etching/ deposition, CVD deposition, nanomembrane, characterization and computer.

Researchers are currently involved in areas such as electronics, materials science, optics, polymer science, membrane technology, medicine, physics and chemistry.

The three technical areas are chemistry (characterization science); electronics and materials, which covers wide band gap devices and applications to nanotechnology, and materials for nanofiltration membranes and technology.

Participants will be involved in four modules: microfabrication, instruments for nanotech, soft lithography/self-assembly and biology.

This year's bootcamp will be sponsored by the ASME Nanotechnology Institute, Mechanical Engineering magazine, George Washington University and Howard University.

Registration will be $595 for students, $995 for those employed by the government, $1,595 for members of ASME and other professional organizations, and $1,995 for general audience attendees. General audience attendees who have not previously applied for ASME membership will receive the first year of membership free.

Those who register and pay for ASME's 2005 Nano Training Bootcamp by Jan. 31 will get a 50 percent discount on ASME's Fourth Integrated Nanosystems Conference. Visit www.asmeconferences.org/NANO05 for more information on that conference.

For details on bootcamp topics and to register, visit www.asmeconferences.org/nanobootcamp05.

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