First-Year Engineering Students Explore Nanotechnology in Engineering

Innovations in nanotechnology are greatly improving the quality of everyday life and impacting most science and technology fields [1]. The number of nanotechnology products and workers has skyrocketed over the past decade and are still continuing to grow; trends suggest that by 2020 there will be a 3 trillion dollar market with 6 million workers [1]. Although nanotechnology is a promising field for advancement with significantly increasing funding, there is an insufficient number of engineers informed about nanotechnology and prepared to enter this field [1,2].