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<div class="">The UIMF/OSTC together with UI Distance and Online Education is launching a new Online 3 s.h. course in Micro and Nanofabrication, with remote and real-time lab sessions in the fall 2017.</div>
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<div class="">This is a new endeavor that is attempting to bring various state-of-the-art labs in micro/nafabfrication to students, including both on-campus and remote students. This pilot project was made possible through the UI Innovation in Teaching with
Technology Awards that was recently awarded. As a start, we are introducing several basic remote teaching and training technologies that will enable students to connect in live labs sessions and run various tools and experiments remotely. A potential phase
II of this project will involve the introduction of more advanced virtual reality tools in training and education.</div>
<div class="">As you can imagine, this is an ambitious project but the introduction of virtual and real-time labs in science and engineering courses, particularly, in the micro/nanofabrication area will have significant impact on the training of the next generation
of scientists and engineers. According to several reports [1], the learning outcome achievement is equal or higher in courses involving remote labs versus traditional courses with on-site labs. The remote lab sessions will undoubtedly bring a more fiscally
efficient, opportunistic and asynchronous education to a demographically and geographically wider student population.</div>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: x-small; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);">[1] James R. Brinson, </span><span class="" style="font-size: x-small; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);"> “Learning outcome achievement in non-traditional (virtual and remote)
versus traditional (hands-on) laboratories: A review of the empirical research”, Computers and Education 87, 218-237 2015. </span></p>
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<div class="">I would be grateful if you would share/distribute this widely with your students and staff within your respective labs and institutions and encourage them to enroll in this online course.</div>
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<div class="">Thanks for your support.</div>
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<div class="">Regards</div>
<div class="">Aju</div>
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<div class=""><i class=""><font color="#0096ff" class="">Aju Jugessur, Ph.D.<br class="">
Director, University of Iowa Microfabrication Facility (UIMF)<br class="">
Optical Science and Technology Center<br class="">
Professor Adjunct, Physics and Astronomy<br class="">
University of Iowa<br class="">
Office: IATL 202, Tel: 319-3532342<br class="">
Labs: IATL 170, 172, 174<br class="">
<a href="https://ostc.uiowa.edu/uimf" class="">https://ostc.uiowa.edu/uimf</a></font></i></div>
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