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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

A) APPLICATION and ADMISSION:
Students first have to apply and be admitted by a participating home department to their PhD program. Students may enroll in the NT-Ph.D. Program at any later point in their graduate career.(Year 1 or 2 is preferred, and indeed we already have Nanotechnology Early-Bird Research Awards which are mainly intended to be used by the participating departments for recruiting graduate students, but which allow support for students to do a 'lab rotation' (defined below) in the summer before they start courses.)

At enrollment in the NT-Ph.D. Program, the student need not have either a real or prospective affiliation with a particular faculty member of the CNT. To enroll, a student must make a formal written application stating his or her interests in and preparation for the program. Applications will be reviewed by the NT-Ph.D. Program Manager for completeness and filed.

To enter and stay in the NT program, a student must remain a student in good standing in his or her participating department and maintain an overall GPA of at least 3.3. The Chair of the Standards Committee (see section D) will decide whether the student formally qualifies to enter and, if so, notify the student of acceptance and send them a description of the program, requirements, timelines, etc. as outlined below.

B) COURSE REQUIRMENTS:
Each NT student must:
1. Complete departmental requirements before taking the Ph.D. Candidacy (i.e., General) Exam, and

2. Complete at least 9 graded course credits relevant to NT with a minimum GPA of at least 3.5. Six (6) of these credits must be outside the home department.

The student can choose from several courses within each of these "topical clusters":
(a) 'nano-engineered particles and materials',
(b) "microfabrication and nano-fabrication",
(c) "analytical tools to probe nanostructures",
(d) "nano-biology", and
(e) "nanotech applications".

These courses can also serve toward required course credits for the home department, if allowed by the standard rules of the home department.
Note that some of the courses on this list may only be offered every few (or several) years and some may be discontinued eventually, at the desire of the department which offers the course.
A mechanism for adding courses to this list is outlined below.

3. Students must also take at least four quarters (at 1 credit each) of the 'Nanotechnology Seminar' (a weekly interdepartmental seminar course (listed as Chemistry 560A and Bioengineering 599) that focuses on intellectual interactions of the UW NT community; allows NT students to present their own research; and provides a forum for bringing in national and international leaders in nanoscale science and nanotechnology).

This course can also serve toward required course credits for the home department, if allowed by the standard rules of the home department.

4. Complete the new "Frontiers in Nanotechnology" course (3 credits) with a grade of at least 3.3 or CR.

This course will introduce students to the frontiers of nanoscale science and nanotechnology. It will be a regular course taught jointly by Nanotech faculty. The course will both introduce students to the thrust areas (nanopatterning, nanoparticles and composites, nanomechanics, bio-analytical nano-tools, and nanoscale drug delivery systems), and be a major platform for recruiting first year graduate students into nanotechnology-related Ph.D. research.

Two CNT faculty (from two colleges) will organize and co-teach this course. Other CNT faculty will discuss their research fields, as guest lecturers. Since graduate students from various departments participate, this course will help bring a more interdisciplinary student population into individual research groups.

This course can also serve toward required course credits for the home department, if allowed by the standard rules of the home department.

5. Upon completion of the above-outlined NT-specific course requirements, the student will obtain an unofficial transcript of their coursework and submit it to the NT-Ph.D. Program Manager, who will verify on an official database that all the NT-specific course requirements have been met. A letter of verification will be sent to the students and a copy kept in the student's file.

To apply to that PhD program in NanoTechnology, you first need to apply to the PhD program in any one of our participating home departments (Chemistry, Physics, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Biochemistry, Genome Sciences, Physiology and Biophysics, and Microbiology) and be admitted. Additional information on application times and process to the Graduate School can be found at http://www.grad.washington.edu/. You must then choose to study with one of the faculty members of our Center as you doctoral advisor. At that point in time (i.e., after you are already enrolled here at the University), you should apply to our PhD Program in Nanotechnology. If you go to our web address: http://www.nano.washington.edu/education/programs.asp you will see how to proceed. To find out more about our research and the requirements for this PhD program, look at our Nanotech Center web page: http://www.nano.washington.edu/education/courses.asp for a full description.

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