Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: With a support from National Science Foundation, an upper-level undergraduate online course "Nanostructures: An Introduction" was developed and taught as a component of Missouri Physics Collaboration and Missouri Alliance for Collaborative Education (MACE) initiatives.Students from six different university campuses throughout the state of Missouri have participated.This paper describes the choice of delivery technology as well as adapting the course content and assessment strategy for the online format. MotivationAn upper-level undergraduate course "Nanostructures: An Introduction" has been developed and later adapted to an online form as an education and outreach component of grants DMR-0704981 and DMR-1205223 sponsored by the National Science Foundation.These projects are titled "Mesoscopic Transport and Localization in Active Random Media" and "Anomalous Transport and Wavefront Shaping in Complex Photonic Media".Rapid advances in nanotechnology have enabled the fabrication of micro-and nano-photonic structures with high degree of precision.Joined experimental and theoretical effort aims to uncover unusual optical properties of the artificially designed and purposefully fabricated nano-structures.This course provided an opportunity to expose students to the cutting-edge technologies employed in the project as well as to survey the field of nano-science as a whole.After an initial development, the course ran in the spring 2009 semester at the physics department of Missouri University of Science and Technology.In the fall 2011 semester the course was offered at all public institutions of higher education state-wide under umbrella of Missouri Physics Collaboration -a part of a broader Missouri Alliance for Collaborative Education (MACE) initiative 1 .MACE's primary vision is: "… to provide a medium through which institutions in the state of Missouri can collaborate and offer a full range of course offerings in programs that are facing enrollment/resource challenges.It is believed that collaborative programs such as these can contribute to a more efficient use of our increasingly scarce resources and prevent the loss of programs that are currently challenged.However just as importantly, by pooling faculty resources across institutions, we can move to increase the breadth and depth of instruction to the students at the participating institutions.Consequently, through these more comprehensive offerings to our students, there can also be long-range benefits for all.As these programs enhance the human capital of the graduating students, they can provide positive
Source: ASEE Midwest Section Conference
Author: Alexey Yamilov
Institution: Missouri University of Science and Technology
Language: English
Topic: Online and Blended Learning
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2183204065