Nano technology degree?
June 1, 2010 by NanotechMarketplace.com
Filed under Nanotechnology Jobs
I am a 32 year old commercial/industrial electrician with a background in avionics and electronics. I am trying to find the right path to take, educational speaking, to pursue a career in the field of nano technology. There is a community college two blocks away that offers a transfer degree specifically in nanotechnology but it seems to me that I might be better served to start with a general science transfer degree as the other one seems geared more towards a more mundane clean room manufacturing type job environment in a nano tech environment. The community college is the North Seattle Community College and the college I would transfer to would most likely be the University of Washington, since I work at the UW medical center as an electrician I get a deal on tuition. I also don’t have much chemistry and biology experience, which it seems makes up a good portion of the curriculum. Thanks for your time.
I have no degree, but some credits here and there from my electrical apprenticeship.
Yes, you do seem to have a dillemma. The community college programs train technicians, which you say isn’t what you want to be. But you don’t have the background (and probably the time at your age) to become a scientist, which requires a PhD, or an engineer, which requires at least a masters, in solid state physics, chemical and material physics, or physical chemistry.
Do you have a BS? In what?