Interactive, Entertaining, Virtual Learning Environments

Individual Perspectives on Societal Implications of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 258 It is a great challenge to create baccalaureate programs in nanoengineering for four-year undergraduate students. Skeptics may argue that it can’t be done because nanotechnology requires competence in too many fields of knowledge for a student to gain meaningful mastery in an undergraduate career. But the future nanoengineer doesn’t need to know everything about all the sciences, only those aspects of the traditional scientific disciplines that are relevant to the nanoscale. Therefore, one of the main challenges of curriculum writers is to understand which concepts may be omitted from a nanoengineering education, and which concepts must be retained and then integrated into a coherent “nanoscale story.”