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The topic of nanotechnology safety has been the subject of many discussions. Starting in 2006, a focus was started at Texas State University to develop an educational process to train workers and students in the elements of nanotechnology safety. The progress was slow and had many setbacks, which took 8 years to overcome. This chapter presents the path to the creation of and details about the two courses in nanotechnology safety education and the coming nanotechnology safety certification.
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The team expresses their heartfelt thanks to all who have contributed in the successful development of these courses, including instructors for inserting the modules, students for the critical responses, guidance from the advisory board, and the personnel at NSF.
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The material was developed under NSF-NUE (Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education) award #1242087, NUE: NanoTRA—Texas Regional Alliance to foster ‘Nanotechnology Environment, Health, and Safety Awareness’ in tomorrow’s Engineering and Technology Leaders.
This course material was developed pursuant to a National Science Foundation grant and is to be used strictly for educational purposes. Developers of the material have used a number of images to enhance understating of various concepts and they are acknowledged accordingly. Any comments or concerns over the use of these images should be directed to Dr. Jitendra S. Tate.
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Trybula, W., Fazarro, D., Hanks, C., Tate, J. (2016). Nanotechnology Safety Education. In: Winkelmann, K., Bhushan, B. (eds) Global Perspectives of Nanoscience and Engineering Education. Science Policy Reports. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31833-2_8
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