NSEC: Nanotechnology in Society Project Imaging, Scientific Change and Public Understanding of Emerging Nanotechnologies

NSEC：社会中的纳米技术项目成像、科学变革和公众对新兴纳米技术的理解

• 批准号: 0531160
• 负责人: Ann Johnson
• 金额: $ 137.5万
• 依托单位: University South Carolina Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-10-01 至 2012-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0531160&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSEC; Nanotechnology; Society; Project; Imaging

This project undertakes four primary activities; two are research efforts, and two are primarily educational in focus. All build on and extend work started through prior NSF award 0304448 "NIRT: From Laboratory to Society." The first research effort, "Imaging, Imagining and Understanding the Nanoscale," focuses on the role of images in communicating about nanoscale science, engineering, and technology. The research will engage stakeholders and scholars in the analysis of issues associated with these images and messages and develop empirical data on public understanding and response. This will create a novel and unique opportunity for extended cross-disciplinary investigation based on philosophical and aesthetic principles, on perspectives from the social and behavioral sciences, on the experience and evolving practice of nanoscientists and instrument makers, and on the experience of other stakeholders and the public. This research will provide a solid foundation for the study of images and their impact on understanding, as well as contributing to the literature on public understanding of science. The second research effort, "Research Culture and Nanostructured Materials," focuses on how nanotechnology research is changing the scientific and engineering practices of nanoresearchers. The National Nanotechnology Initiative anticipates changes in such areas as public/private partnerships, blurring disciplinary lines, and reconfigured relationships between theory, experiment and applications. To open a dialogue that engages practitioners with science studies scholars about this new technology in the making, this research begins by examining the Chemical Industry Vision2020 Technology Partnership roadmap and Sematech's International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors. The project will provide venues for this dialogue, organized topically along lines laid out in the Vision 2020 document: (1) Fundamental understanding and synthesis; (2) Simulations (done in coordination with the Network for Computational Nanotechnology); (3) Instruments and tools (done in coordination with the Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures and the Center for Probing the Nanoscale); and (4) Manufacturing and processing. The first educational effort, "the Nanoliterate Campus," focuses on developing multidisciplinary courses and research opportunities that bring scientists and engineers into fruitful dialog with humanists and social scientists (students and faculty alike). It will engage ten undergraduate "NanoScholars" each year to work on interdisciplinary research tied to this program, support "News from the Bottom," a student-edited journal on societal and ethical interactions with nanotechnology (http://schc.sc.edu/nfb/), and employ three graduate students to pursue research tied to each of the two research projects and to help develop the South Carolina Citizens' School of Nanotechnology.

该项目开展了四项主要活动；两项是研究工作，两个是重点的教育。所有这些都基于NSF奖030444“ NIRT：从实验室到社会”开始。第一个研究工作“成像，想象和理解纳米级”的重点是图像在沟通纳米级科学，工程和技术中的作用。该研究将吸引利益相关者和学者参与与这些图像和信息相关的问题的分析，并开发有关公众理解和回应的经验数据。这将为基于哲学和审美原则，社会和行为科学的观点，基于纳米科学家和仪器制造商的经验和不断发展的实践以及其他利益相关者和公众的经验，基于社会和行为科学的观点，为基于哲学和审美原则的扩展跨学科调查创造新颖而独特的机会。这项研究将为研究图像及其对理解的影响以及对公众对科学理解的文献做出贡献奠定坚实的基础。第二项研究工作“研究文化和纳米结构材料”重点介绍了纳米技术研究如何改变纳米搜索者的科学和工程实践。国家纳米技术倡议预测公共/私人合作伙伴关系，纪律线模糊以及理论，实验和应用之间的关系的变化。为了开放一场对话，与从业人员与科学研究学者有关这项新技术的研究，这项研究首先研究了化学工业Vision 2020技术合作伙伴路线图和Sematech的国际半导体技术路线图。该项目将为这种对话提供场地，并按照2020年愿景文档中布置的局部组织：（1）基本的理解和综合； （2）模拟（与计算纳米技术网络协调完成）； （3）工具和工具（与高级材料和智能结构中心进行协调以及探测纳米级的中心）； （4）制造和处理。 “纳米森林校园”的第一个教育努力致力于开发多学科课程和研究机会，使科学家和工程师与人文主义者和社会科学家（学生和教职员工）进行富有成果的对话。它将每年与十个本科“纳米chol”与该计划相关的跨学科研究，支持“底部的新闻”，这是一本关于社会和道德与纳米技术的学生互动期刊（http://schc.schc.schc.sc.sc.edu/nfb/），并为每个毕业的学生提供了跨越的研究，以帮助各种研究，以帮助两位跨越的学生，并为每个研究人员提供了跨越的研究。纳米技术。