纳米技术工程荣誉学位课程旨在提供有关纳米技术关键领域的实践教育
The Nanotechnology Engineering honours degree plan is designed to provide an education in key areas of nanotechnology, including the fundamental chemistry, physics, and engineering of nanostructures or nanosystems and the theories and techniques employed in the modelling, design, fabrication, and characterization of technological applications. Emphasis is placed on training with the same modern instrumentation techniques employed in research and development in these emerging technologies. The University of Waterloo awards a Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) degree in Nanotechnology Engineering to students who successfully meet all plan requirements. Nanotechnology engineering is a multi-disciplinary engineering field that simultaneously draws from and benefits areas such as materials science and engineering, chemistry, physics, and biology. Indeed, it is all about generating new solutions based upon atomic- and molecular-scale concepts and manipulations.Nanotechnology commonly refers to the fabrication, study, and manipulation of structures having sizes in the range from one to one hundred nanometers (a nanometer is a billionth of a metre). This length scale bridges the important gap between atoms and molecules (which are typically less than five nanometers in size) and bulk materials, thereby requiring a knowledge of fundamental chemistry and quantum physics. To develop this new cluster of technologies, there is an acute need for highly trained personnel who have a thorough understanding of the natural laws that govern the workings not only of atoms and molecules but also of natural or manufactured nanoscopic and mesoscopic structures and systems (such as, clusters, fullerenes, nanotubes, macromolecules, nanorobots, and nanosystems more generally).