Electronics from the bottom up: Strategies for teaching nanoelectronics at the undergraduate level

IEEE Transactions on Education

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 77-86

  Vaidyanathan, Mani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electronics education; electronics from the bottom up; emerging electronics; nanoelectronics; solid state electronics; teaching strategies for electronics

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONICS EDUCATION; ELECTRONICS FROM THE BOTTOM UP; EMERGING ELECTRONICS; SOLID-STATE ELECTRONICS; TEACHING STRATEGIES FOR ELECTRONICS;

CURRICULA; MECHANICS; NANOELECTRONICS; QUANTUM THEORY; STUDENTS; SURVEYS; TEACHING; VISUALIZATION;

E-LEARNING;

EID: 79551651809     PISSN: 00189359     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TE.2010.2043845     Document Type: Article

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