• Graduate Level Courses

• Interdisciplinary Masters Program

• Certificate Level Programs

Graduate Level Courses in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Two graduate level courses are currently proposed in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.  The first will focus on Recent Advances in Nano-materials: Fundamentals to Practice and the second, Facilitating Interfacial Charge Transfer: Fundamentals to Devices.  The courses will augment the current offerings and our attempt will be to advertise these to the surrounding industries for attracting greater number of part time Master’s students in the Department.

Building an Interdisciplinary Masters Program on Nano-Material Science and Engineering

This master’s level program is in the planning phase with the overall objective to provide a comprehensive graduate level program for full and part time students focused on the chemistry, physics and engineering of state of the art nano-materials targeted towards future technologies such as energy conversion and storage, sensing, micro-reactors etc.  This would be an interdisciplinary effort with School of Engineering (Electrical, Chemical and Mechanical), and College of Arts and Sciences (Department of Physics and Chemistry).  Several faculty members are currently teaching or are in the planning phases of introducing courses with excellent fit in this program.  Such a course could be easily put together with proper coordination, consensus and introduction of a few bridging courses to complete the overall structure.  This maters program would reside in both colleges of engineering and art and sciences.  The most important policy and structural issues which need to be addressed are:

Certificate Programs in Nano-Engineered Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion

1]Chemistry and Physics of Intercalation compounds, this would cover structure property relationships of new current state of the art materials for Li batteries, covering the entire gamut of intercalation hosts and new membranes for Li conduction.  This program would be a combination of theory and practice incorporating integrated laboratory experience using all the advanced equipment available in the center.

2]Fuel Cell electrochemistry and practice.  In the same lines as the battery electrode materials this course would fill the void of current laboratory professionals to learn the latest in electrocatalysis, membrane science and characterization and diagnosis of fuel cell performance.