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Newswise Students at Arizona State University are learning how to play.
ASU undergraduates have the opportunity to enroll in a challenging course this fall, designed to re-introduce the act of play as a problem-solving technique. The course is offered as part of the larger project, Cross-disciplinary Education in Social and Ethical Aspects of Nanotechnology, which received nearly $200,000 from the National Science Foundations Nano Undergraduate Education program.
The project is the brainchild of Camilla Nrgaard Jensen, a doctoral scholar in the ASU Herberger Institutes design, environment and the arts doctoral program. Participants will use an approach called LEGO Serious Play to solve what Jensen calls nano-conundrums ethical dilemmas arising in the field of nanotechnology.
LEGO Serious Play is an engaging vehicle that helps to create a level playing field, fostering shared conversation and exchange of multiple perspectives, said Jensen, a trained LEGO Serious Play facilitator. This creates an environment for reflection and critical deliberation of complex decisions and their future impacts.
LEGO Serious Play methods are often used by businesses to strategize and encourage creative thinking. In ASUs project, students will use LEGO bricks to build metaphorical models, share and discuss their creations, and then adapt and respond to feedback received by other students. The expectation is that this activity will help students learn to think and communicate outside the box literally and figuratively about their work and its long-term societal effects.
Jensen works with a team of faculty members, including Thomas Seager, an associate professor and Lincoln Fellow of Ethics and Sustainability in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, one of ASUs Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering; Cynthia Selin, an assistant professor in the School of Sustainability and the Center for Nanotechnology in Society, housed at the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at ASU; and Mark Hannah, an assistant professor in the rhetoric and composition program in the ASU Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Fifteen engineering students enrolled in the Grand Challenge Scholar Program participated in a Feb. 24 pilot workshop to test project strategies. Comments from students included, "I experienced my ideas coming to life as I built the model, and "I gained a perspective as to how ideas cannot take place entirely in the head. These anecdotal outcomes confirmed the teams assumptions that play and physical activity can enhance the formation and communication of ideas.
Technology is a creative and collaborative process, said Seager, who is principal investigator for the grant. I want a classroom that will unlock technology creativity, in which students from every discipline can be creative. For me, overcoming obstacles to communication is just the first step.
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The San Bernardino Community College Districts Economic Development and Corporate Training Division through the Center for the Advancement of Nanotechnology (NanoCenter) will host the Nanotechnology Summit 2014 on April 25 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Donald F. Averill Applied Technology Training Center (ATTC), 114 S. Del Rosa Drive, San Bernardino, 92408.
The public and media are invited to attend. There is no charge for the event, parking is free and lunch is provided. R.S.V.P. by April 16 to http://nanosummit2014.eventbrite.com.
Dr. Meyya Meyyappan, Chief Scientist for Exploration Technology, NASA Ames Research Center is the programs keynote speaker. Former Director of NASAs Center for Nanotechnology, Meyyappan will discuss the evolution of nanotechnology and its current applications, all issues at the heart of this years summit, Nanotechnology Shaping the Industry.
Students from the San Bernardino Valley College Honors Chemistry Class under the guidance of their instructor, Jason Morales, Ph.D., will describe their nano-composite research project. The ATTC has partnered with Morales class to allow students to image their materials using the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) so they can see the nano-particles they are creating. Morales will discuss the importance to students of viewing (imaging) what they are creating. The students will discuss their research projects and what they have learned from the project.
The president and CEO of Smart Mass Transit (SMT) Rail system, J.P. Mobasher will discuss the use of nanomagnetics within the SMT Rail system, which incorporates technologies for patents he developed for his environmentally sustainable transit system, and other uses of nanotechnology in transportation. A mechanical engineering graduate of Ecole Polytechnique De Montreal and an expert in automation and robotics, Mobashers 27 years of experience in these diverse but related fields have made his global vision of an inexpensive, energy efficient, sustainable and safe elevated transport system possible.
Anyone interested in the uses and future of this cutting-edge technology in the Inland Empire is invited to attend.
Nanotechnology is the science of manipulating materials at the atomic level to design and manufacture new and better materials and products. One nanometer equals one billionth of 1 meter. A sheet of paper is about 100,000 nanometers thick. Due to quantum mechanical effects at the nanoscale, the physical properties of materials change as well as rules of manufacturing. This is the revolutionary new manufacturing process and not a single technology.
The Economic Development and Corporate Training (EDCT) division is comprised of the Professional Development Center (PDC), the Donald F. Averill Applied Technology Training Center (ATTC), the Center for the Advancement of Nanotechnology (NanoCenter), the Logistics Technology Program, the Entrepreneurship Institute of San Bernardino (EIOSB), the On-line Education Center (Ed2Go), the Career and Technical Education Community Collaborative, the Caltrans-CDCR Work Crew Project, and the Office of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)/Digital Media Deputy Sector Navigator.
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Privately owned Israeli startup, StoreDot Ltd has unveiled a ground-breaking battery capable of charging your smartphone and other devices in just 30 seconds.
At Microsofts Think Next symposium in Tel Aviv, StoreDot demonstrated the prototype of its ultra-fast-charge battery for the first time. StoreDot specializes in technology that is inspired by natural processes, cost-effective and environmentally-friendly. The company produces nanodots derived from bio-organic material that, due to their size, have both increased electrode capacitance and electrolyte performance, resulting in batteries that can be fully charged in minutes rather than hours.
These multifunctional nanodots are chemically synthesized bio-organic peptide molecules that change the rules of mobile device capabilities. These nanocrystals are made from peptides, short chains of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.
StoreDots bio-organic devices such as smartphone displays, provide much more efficient power consumption, and are eco-friendly; while other nanodot and quantum-dot technologies currently in use are heavy metal based, like cadmium, and, therefore, toxic, StoreDot nanodots are biocompatible and superior to all previous discoveries in this field. The technology will allow the company to synthesize new nanomaterials that can be used in a wide variety of applications.
Manufacturing Nanodots is also relatively inexpensive as they originate naturally, and utilize a basic biological mechanism of self-assembly. They can be made from a vast range of bio-organic raw materials that are readily available and environmentally friendly.
The fast-charge battery is the result of our focus on commercializing the materials we have discovered. Were particularly pleased that this innovative nanotechnology, inspired by nature, not only changes the rules of mobile device capabilities, but is also environmentally-friendly, said Dr. Doron Myersdorf, CEO of StoreDot.
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It may not be a coincidence, either, that Putmans company is based in Brooklyn. Its an incredible hotbed of technology and creativity, he insists featuring the most important artists, intellectual innovators and technologists from the makers movement. The East Coast is much more exciting than Silicon Valley, Putman says, because its more interdisciplinary.
Nanotechnology has been the dream of every scientist for the past 50 years, Putman explains. It changes everything, he says from infinitely extending Moores Law to potentially eliminating cancer. And now, he says,this great scientific dream is achievable. By 2014, he promises, companies like Nanotronics Imaging will have truly revolutionized not only the tech world but also medicine and every other industry.
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