Pre-Symposium Professional Courses
Nanopositioning for Nanomanufacturing Equipment and Instrumentation
Course Description
Nanopositioners are the electromechanical systems within Nanomanufacturing instruments/equipment that position parts/probes on the nanometer level. The machines, some of the most precise and accurate machines that exist, require special knowledge and care in their design, fabrication and use.
The goals of this class are:
- to teach the fundamentals of nanopositioner design via short lectures
- to provide the participants with the opportunity to construct a nanopositioner
- to learn practical design/fabrication/use knowledge via hands-on experimentation.
Nanopositioning Design Competition
*Competition open only to students who attended the course
Students will design an x-y Nanopositioning, consisting of an x-y flexure stage which is driven by two magnet-coil actuators and tracked by an inductive sensing system. Students will have the opportunity to “race” their Nanopositioners through a virtual 30x30 micron race track at the conference.
To compete, each school to form team(s) of 3 - 5 students. A competition kit will be provided at a cost of $750.00 per team, in addition to the course fee of $200.00 per student.
21 January 08: Half day course
23 January is left open for students to design and build their Nanopositioners.
24 January 08: Demonstration and Judging (Prizes will be given)
Who Should Attend
Professionals, practicing engineers, researchers, graduate students and professors.
About The Instructor
Professor Culpepper received his BSME (1995) from Iowa State University, and his MS/Ph.D. (1997/ 2000) from MIT. He worked as an independent consultant from 2000 - 2001 before joining the faculty at MIT. Professor Culpepper is the recipient of an NSF Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE) for his work in Nanomanufacturing, two R&D 100 awards (1999, 2003) and a TR100 award. Professor Culpepper is listed on 7 patents issued/pending. He is the Assistant Director of the MIT Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity. His research is focused on (i) the design of meso-/micro-/nano-scale equipment for nanopositioning, (ii) compliant instrument and mechanism design, and (iii) the design of multi-scale systems and products.
Date: 21 January 2008, Monday
Time: 1 pm to 5 pm
Venue: Nanyang Technological University
50 Nanyang Avenue
N2-B4A-02
SMART Classroom
Course Fee: $200.00 per person - REGISTER
Nanopositioning Design Competition: $750.00 per team
Registration: Registration is open till Monday, 7 January 2008
