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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.
    The computer disrupts while writing about the possibility of wet pizza in the humidity in Florida.
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  • Posted by 1musictime 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Is The Patrick Henry University, in Ohio, the brother university? Are students at each E-Mailing?No freedom of speech in exchange of freedom of pizza?No free speech, but free pizza?WHat number of pieces? What kind? Domino's Pizza Hut, R
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I once had my own rock and roll band. I no longer play saxophone, but still sing in public.
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  • Posted by 1musictime 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Not noting the place with music until your recent words. It's good you write you and more have music inclination.What way you and more have music inclinations? If you and more have music inclinations, then the one writing to you has technological inclinations.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We added a music program about ten years ago, because many of our faculty, including me, and students are musically inclined as well.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Florida Institute of Technology (aka Florida Tech) is definitely not a liberal bastion. We are proud enginerds, but we insist that students take one more humanities and communication course than most universities. The philosophy of nearly everyone here is entrepreneurial and capitalistic, but there is a mix of theists and atheists. The philosophy around here is embodied by one communications professor who hosts a day each year in which free pizza is offered to all students who come by his booth, but in exchange for the "free" pizza, the students must give up their free speech rights. The lesson of Benjamin Franklin that those who would willing give up their liberty for security deserve neither comes through loudly and clearly that day.

    FIT isn't the Patrick Henry University, but it is one of the closest that you will find to it. Our next open house is Sat. 12/2/2017.
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  • Posted by 1musictime 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    What is the way to determine and know the students and graduates are definite John Galts or on a plane with AS John Galt?Also Francisco D'An- conia and Henry Rearden?
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  • Posted by 1musictime 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Numbers of states are good enterprise environments and are with good enterprises or good and great enterprises, one may agree, are "in" numbers of states. Florida without state income tax the only reason? What additional reasons?
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  • Posted by 1musictime 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    When is the university starting? Advertising like separate university advertisements to mix philosophy people it is a university where John Galts and future John Galts graduate?
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  • Posted by 1musictime 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Rairoading is a large and indispensable industry also today and continuing. There's lots of money with it.The railroad industry is large, indispensable, and rich today and continuing.
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  • Posted by 1musictime 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    A friend jokes it's illegal to make money because only the federal government can legally make money.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Railroading and power generation were the big industries then. The money to be made now is in regenerative medicine.
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  • Posted by 1musictime 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Dagny majors in engineering, knows engineering, and is a professional railroader.One can be a John Galt and a Dagny with a separate profession than AS?
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