Technical personell training and public divulgation of modern technologies
TASC-INFM personnel formation
Public technical formation and scientific divulgation in only one move.
The technical staff is strongly motivated in performing public high-tech professional formation to young under graduated students, with the awareness that such a formation is also one of the most effective means for scientific divulgation.
In 2001 this activity has been mainly focused in organizing stages for students of technical institutes for a total amount of about 2000 hours by man.
Since the second half of 2002 a novel more incisive formation program has been planned. With the funding of the Regional Government, a collaboration between the TASC technical group, the APE Research (a private enterprise) and the IRSIP (Slovenian Regional Institute for Professional Instruction), a double two years formation intervention is operative since the end of 2002 for the students of the last two years of the Josef Stefan Technical Institute. The first technician of control systems in the field of nanotechnology (electronics) and the second technician for the equipment in the field of nanotechnology (mechanics).
First year - About 40 hours of lectures on modern physics, scanning probe microscopes - SPM -, fundamental on top-down and bottom-up nanotechnology, vacuum technology (lectures by R.Gotter - TASC), 3D CAD designing (lectures by A.De Luisa - TASC), technology of nano-positioning, tip preparation and head assembly for SPM (lectures by P.Sigalotti- APE Research), are followed by a five weeks stage for several students in our laboratories and workshops, where the students participate to the construction of new instrumentation.
Second year - A similar activity is repeated the second year focusing on radiation-matter interaction and related materials investigation techniques (lectures by R.Gotter - TASC), preparation of nanostructured materials by Chemical Vapor Deposition and Plasma enhanced CVD (lectures by M.Tonezzer- TASC), lithography techniques and Micro Electro Mechanical Systems - MEMS - (lectures by A.Carpenitero - TASC), again followed by a five week stage.
The more than 1800 hours by man made in the 2002/2003 academic year should be more than 3600 in the next year.
The aim of this kind of formation activity is double. On one side to produce a more effective scientific awareness, even for people that in the future will not be again in direct touch with the scientific community, or eventually to attract more young students toward scientific and high tech studies. On the other side to prepare highly qualified young technicians in the local area, already experienced and efficiently introduced in our activities. In this contest is very interesting the possibility to activate both temporary jobs for young technicians that will assimilate more competitive competence for future jobs, or part time jobs for university students that can so experience, step by step, real problems about what they learn in theory every day. In the same time a safe average age of our personnel is simultaneously guaranteed.
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