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Florida Tech's Nanotechnology Minor Program

Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 2 months ago
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If you want High Tech with a Human Touch for your or your child's university experience, that is Florida Tech's motto, and we take it quite seriously.

http://www.fit.edu

My nanotechnology minor program is one of only six such undergrad programs in the US and sixty in the world. Learning does happen in the classroom, but it really happens in the lab. Our program has more lab credit hours than anyone else's. I teach chemical, biomedical, and materials engineering, but I teach and employ plenty of mechanical, aerospace, and electrical engineers working for me as well on projects like

a) 3D printing of metals, rocket propellant grains, and tissue scaffolding;
b) self-assembly of proteins associated with Alzheimer's disease proteins; and
c) conversion of biomass into energy, fuel, and chemicals for our future Atlantis.

I have rejected the Stadler/NSF way and either fund my own research or get it supported by industry in my effort to be consistent with Galt's ethics.

Florida Institute of Technology (also Florida Tech, or FIT) is a non-tenure-granting, private university that just made it into the top 200 in the world rankings according to the London Times. I will see to it that you get all possible discounts and scholarships. Florida Tech is inexpensive for a private university at $38000 per year. That is the true cost of a university education if you do not want to be a moocher. You will exchange your value (money) for my values (knowledge, expertise, and time).

Educating future Galts,
Prof. Jim Brenner
Nanotechnology Minor Program Chair
Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Depts.
150 West University Blvd.
256 Olin Engineering Bldg.
Melbourne, FL 32901
mailto:jbrenner@fit.edu
321-749-3437
http://my.fit.edu/~jbrenner
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  • Posted by tutor-turtle 10 months, 3 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    UMASS has an excellent engineering program, I got my undergrad from there in IT. My wife got her Fine Arts degree there as well. Although the Fine Art department is pitifully funded. They are stuck in the old Teachers College Cafeteria, basically a walk-out basement. Any one department head office has better funding. Sad.
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  • Posted by $ 10 months, 4 weeks ago in reply to this comment.
    Eight years after I posted this, there are now considerably more nanotechnology minor programs than the six at that time. UMass Lowell was indeed one of the first six. Jackie Zhang has long been a pioneer in the field. Back before I read Atlas Shrugged in 2009 and quit depending on government dollars, I remember recommending Zhiyong Gu's nanotech education proposal for funding.
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  • Posted by $ 2 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Dear Moneymagnet,
    Yes, my university deleted all my.fit.edu websites within the last year so that they could control things more. I re-posted what you would like to see as one of the first three links inside

    https://fit.instructure.com/courses/2...

    What are you or your child or grandchild interested in pursuing?
    Jim Brenner
    Florida Tech Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
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  • Posted by coaldigger 3 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I was born and raised in an US Steel coal mining town in southern WV. Needless to say I wanted out of there and after I was graduated from WVU with a BSEE I worked for Koppers Co. Inc. Heinrich Koppers, from Essen, Germany was the inventor of the chemical recovery coke oven and Pittsburgh industrialists, at the turn of the 20th century financed his US company to take advantage of his technology. Later the engineering and construction arm built steel plants on a turn key basis all over the world. I had a romance with steel in the 1960's and liked my little boxes of transistor circuits I designed controlling the monster steel making apparatus.
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  • Posted by $ 3 years, 2 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I look forward to meeting your granddaughter, coaldigger. My family and I have been on every side of the energy equation, including coal. For a few years, I was in a coal chemistry group. The Brenners (my family name) goes back to the original coal burning family in Germany.
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  • Posted by coaldigger 3 years, 2 months ago
    I sent a copy of your post to my daughter for her judgement to share with my granddaughter. I respect her judgement and fear her wrath ;>). I wonder how she got that way?
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  • Posted by $ 4 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The nanotech minor program just got better. I am teaching a new class that includes some online self-taught CAD, some basic electronics, some online self-taught computer programming, lots of Arduino-based data acquisition and control, some 3D printing and laser cutting, and finally a project requiring all of the above plus entrepreneurship. I now am teaching the class that all future Galts, Reardens, D'Anconias, Dagny Taggarts, and Djanneskjolds ought to be taking.
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