Nano-Concepts

MISSION:

To provide a comprehensive structure that encourages free exchange of scholarship, technologies and business development enterprises in nanoscale systems involving teaching, learning, and research with outreach components.

The pathway to the accomplishment of these goals is anchored in introducing the problem-based learning (PBL) methodology in all STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) courses at all levels and in a variety of enrichment opportunities. Also cutting edge research and effective faculty professional development are vital components.

Range of Sizes

Problem Based Learning (PBL) is a learning/teaching methodology based on the principle of using problems as a starting point for the acquisition of new knowledge and a learning/teaching methodology designed to create learning through experience and the reinforcement of existing knowledge.

Quotation
"In the pedagogy the Teacher’s part, then, in the process of instruction, is that of a guide, director or superintendent of the operations by which the pupil teaches himself.” - Joseph Payne, 1883 from Lectures on the Science and Art of Education

Center Components