NanoTechnology Training

The San Jose Evergreen Community College District is pleased to announce that the Workforce Institute has been awarded a $300,000 grant through the State Chancellor’s Office to provide training in Nanotechnology to Silicon Valley businesses.

Working in partnership with California Institute for Nanotechnology (CINT), IBP will provide two programs: 1. Business Reengineering 2. Train the Trainer program. The Business Re-engineering program is targeted to train executives to incorporate nanotechnology in their existing business processes to enhance new product development. As an outcome of this training, they will submit a business proposal to introduce nanotechnology process in their organization. The Train the Trainer program is for technical managers in R&D, product development, quality control and production to provide them advance training in nanotechnology and help them implement in house training for their employees.

A number of companies have committed to participate in this program. A few of them are Companies such as Abbott Corporation, Nanogram, Nano Solar, Combimatrix, Antibodies, Quantum Sphere, SDC Materials, Ahwahnee and Nanoexchange.

A key understanding of nanotechnology is that it offers not just better products, but a vastly improved manufacturing process. A computer can make copies of data files—essentially as many copies as you want at little or no cost. It may be only a matter of time until the building of products becomes as cheap as the copying of files. That's the real meaning of nanotechnology, and why it is sometimes seen as "the next industrial revolution."
Like electricity or computers before it, nanotech will offer greatly improved efficiency in almost every facet of life. But as a general-purpose technology, it will be dual-use, meaning it will have many commercial uses and it also will have many military uses—making far more powerful weapons and tools of surveillance. Thus it represents not only wonderful benefits for humanity, but also grave risks. (http://www.crnano.org/whatis.htm)

This project will help promote the San Jose Evergreen Community college as an educational leader in emerging technologies. “This collaborative partnership will provide the college an opportunity to work with business partners in emerging industries and help prepare a trained workforce ready to meet hiring needs of these growing companies.” says Carol Coen, IBP Executive Director.