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Florida Tech's Nanotechnology Minor Program

Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 9 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
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  • Posted by Matcha 9 years, 8 months ago
    Hi Brenner,
    Small world. My husband was a Prof. at FIT. My son graduated with the highest GPA the year he graduated and went to CM in Pittsburg on a Nat'l Science Foundation grant to get his doctorate. He wanted to understand nano technology. He ended up going to MIT getting a doctorate in Chemical Eng. I wrote about my son because I had a little trouble with him when he was about 14. His punishment was to read AS. It changed his life
    Matcha
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    • Posted by $ 9 years, 8 months ago
      This sounds like a similar path to my own, Matcha. Florida Tech has grown a lot since those early days, but it still attracts a lot of Gulch-minded people.
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  • Posted by awebb 9 years, 9 months ago
    Welcome to the Marketplace. Glad to see you decided to set up shop. I'm going to PM you - I have a couple of recommendations for your listing to maximize your ROI.
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  • Posted by tutor-turtle 1 year, 5 months ago
    UMASS Lowell is one of the six.
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    • Posted by $ 1 year, 5 months ago
      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 tutor-turtle 1 year, 5 months ago
        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 coaldigger 3 years, 9 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 $ 3 years, 9 months ago
      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, 9 months ago
        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 $ johnrobert2 7 years, 8 months ago
    How much progress you making in the biomedical side of the house? I can think of a couple of research avenues I would volunteer as a trials subject.
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    • Posted by $ 7 years, 8 months ago
      Not as much as I would like. This is the year out of two that I have electives both semesters. My teaching load is high enough that research progress has been slow.
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    • Posted by $ 5 years, 3 months ago
      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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  • Posted by 1musictime 7 years, 3 months ago
    One like John Galt is possible out of Florida?
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    • Posted by 1musictime 7 years, 1 month ago
      May encourage countless questions.Or a good number of them. Great to believe it.It's to ascertain it's more than a belief. It's a good state to believe it. Contemplating a good state while attending The Host DVD 11/8.
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    • Posted by $ 7 years, 1 month ago
      Much of Florida is actually a very good business environment. For instance, Florida has no state income tax.
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      • Posted by 1musictime 7 years ago
        Numbers of states are good enterprise environments and are with good enterprises or good and great enterprises, one may agree, are "in" numbers of states. Florida without state income tax the only reason? What additional reasons?
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    • Posted by $ 7 years, 3 months ago
      Indeed, it is possible. Our first year students just arrived, and classes start on Monday. A year and a half ago one such student earned a John Galt Award for his pioneering work on 3D printing of metals.
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      • Posted by 1musictime 7 years, 1 month ago
        What is 3D printing of metals? What are the ages of the students? What is the result of the 3D printing of metals?What is the beneficial result? What are examples?What are more John Galt examples?
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        • Posted by $ 7 years, 1 month ago
          If you have ever seen 3D printing of polymers, imagine using a laser to melt metals and squeeze them out of a similarly shaped, but more robust extrusion nozzle. The eventual goal of such a device would be to have a desktop-sized foundry.
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