Studying nanotechnology pointless?

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Studying nanotechnology pointless?
OP - January 12, 2010, 06:22 AM

Is doing a 4 year bachelor level course in nanotechnology pointless at this time?

The course in particular I'm considering is this:
http://www.flinders.edu.au/courses/undergrad/bscnt/bscnt_home.cfm

But everything about nanotechnology appears hypothetical right now. If I were to do that course, would there be any practical advantages of it, or is that field still in its infancy & there won't be anything practical to do with it?

Are companies looking to employ nanotechnology graduates?

I really don't want to be a teacher or professor.
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Re: Studying nanotechnology pointless?
Reply #1 - January 12, 2010, 10:20 PM

http://www.nnin.org/nnin_careers.html
http://www.unixl.com/dir/maths_and_engineering/nanotechnology/

I just did some googling and those came up. I would not take them at face value though. Do a bit of research yourself and maybe a bit into the trend of development in the field, like the growth in the demand for graduates from that field in the past few years, and whether it is predicted to grow even more in the next 4 years.

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Re: Studying nanotechnology pointless?
Reply #2 - January 12, 2010, 10:24 PM

In general, no. This is a cutting edge field of science. Hence it is, currently, a field in which 99% of the work involves research. So basically if you want to do a career in this you will need a phd minimum and your career choices will be limited mostly to universities..and more importantly universities that have nanotech labs. The nearest university to where I live is one of the few in the world with full nanotech institute.

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