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Florida Tech's Nanotechnology Minor Program

Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 1 month ago
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If you want High Tech with a Human Touch for your or your child's university experience, that is Florida Tech's motto, and we take it quite seriously.

http://www.fit.edu

My nanotechnology minor program is one of only six such undergrad programs in the US and sixty in the world. Learning does happen in the classroom, but it really happens in the lab. Our program has more lab credit hours than anyone else's. I teach chemical, biomedical, and materials engineering, but I teach and employ plenty of mechanical, aerospace, and electrical engineers working for me as well on projects like

a) 3D printing of metals, rocket propellant grains, and tissue scaffolding;
b) self-assembly of proteins associated with Alzheimer's disease proteins; and
c) conversion of biomass into energy, fuel, and chemicals for our future Atlantis.

I have rejected the Stadler/NSF way and either fund my own research or get it supported by industry in my effort to be consistent with Galt's ethics.

Florida Institute of Technology (also Florida Tech, or FIT) is a non-tenure-granting, private university that just made it into the top 200 in the world rankings according to the London Times. I will see to it that you get all possible discounts and scholarships. Florida Tech is inexpensive for a private university at $38000 per year. That is the true cost of a university education if you do not want to be a moocher. You will exchange your value (money) for my values (knowledge, expertise, and time).

Educating future Galts,
Prof. Jim Brenner
Nanotechnology Minor Program Chair
Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Depts.
150 West University Blvd.
256 Olin Engineering Bldg.
Melbourne, FL 32901
mailto:jbrenner@fit.edu
321-749-3437
http://my.fit.edu/~jbrenner
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  • Posted by 1musictime 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    A John Galt to be with her? Maybe talking with an engineer major Dagny at USC 10 years before with Moo Sool Yun near photographing. The female student asks if she can help me. Maybe away from Moo Sool Yun.Are the graduates rescuers and philosophers?Are they with interests to locate top people with various professions? Are they good at good deceptions?Are they okay with interplanetary travels, extraterrestials, and science fiction?Are they character identifiers?
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    A couple of years ago I had an exceptionally good class, and a Gulcher sponsored achievement awards named after Galt, D'Anconia, and Rearden.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    My older daughter is a senior in biomedical engineering at Florida Tech, and has told me she aspires to be Dagny Taggart. She is on her way, but she isn't there ... yet.
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  • Posted by 1musictime 7 years, 5 months ago
    One may agree it sounds like a fit place. One may agree it reads fascinating.Like to believe it. It's separate to believe it.The medal with printing 3D medal may more resemble a product of Henry Rearden, one may believe.A John Galt, then, comprehend numbers of things, one may believe and agree.
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  • Posted by 1musictime 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    May encourage countless questions.Or a good number of them. Great to believe it.It's to ascertain it's more than a belief. It's a good state to believe it. Contemplating a good state while attending The Host DVD 11/8.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If you have ever seen 3D printing of polymers, imagine using a laser to melt metals and squeeze them out of a similarly shaped, but more robust extrusion nozzle. The eventual goal of such a device would be to have a desktop-sized foundry.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Much of Florida is actually a very good business environment. For instance, Florida has no state income tax.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I know a real life John Galt. His name is Albin Czernichowski, and he was a business partner of mine for a couple of years. He invented the plasma arc reactor while in Poland in 1958 and had to wait until after the falling of the Iron Curtain before finally capitalizing on it at age 70 nearly fifty years later. After a few good years, we and others sold our company after having read Atlas Shrugged right after it became clear that former President Zero was going to become president and favor our solar energy competition.
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  • Posted by 1musictime 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    What is 3D printing of metals? What are the ages of the students? What is the result of the 3D printing of metals?What is the beneficial result? What are examples?What are more John Galt examples?
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  • Posted by 1musictime 7 years, 5 months ago
    One may precede "future John Galts" with knowing John Galt.Knowing who John Galt is.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 7 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Indeed, it is possible. Our first year students just arrived, and classes start on Monday. A year and a half ago one such student earned a John Galt Award for his pioneering work on 3D printing of metals.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 8 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Not as much as I would like. This is the year out of two that I have electives both semesters. My teaching load is high enough that research progress has been slow.
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  • Posted by $ johnrobert2 8 years ago
    How much progress you making in the biomedical side of the house? I can think of a couple of research avenues I would volunteer as a trials subject.
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  • Posted by $ SarahMontalbano 8 years, 7 months ago
    I'm going to look more into FIT- the more I hear about it the better it is seeming.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 1 month ago in reply to this comment.
    Thanks, Dobrien. I will post a new post in around 10 days regarding a major new announcement about Florida Tech's Nanotech Minor Program that John Galt has inspired and a fellow Gulcher who prefers to be called Midas Mulligan has made possible. Trust me. This is no joke.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 9 years, 1 month ago
    Awesome to know about a university not filled with liberal minions. Thanks for providing a reasoning education environment to our future gulchers.Francisco d'Anconia Ragnar Danneskjold and John Galt would approve I suspect.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years ago in reply to this comment.
    This sounds like a similar path to my own, Matcha. Florida Tech has grown a lot since those early days, but it still attracts a lot of Gulch-minded people.
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