Courses

Undergraduate course in Nanotechnology at UWS

Nanotechnology is cross-disciplinary and involves physics, chemistry and biology combined with medicine and engineering. It is regarded as a very important field that will generate the next industrial revolution worldwide. Science-based industries around the world including Australia is going through a period of rapid change and development and as such most of the employment opportunities in the future will lie in the new technology based industries. All new hi-tech fields may benefit from the opportunities offered by nanotechnology.

An education in nanotechnology is going to be in great demand on the job market. The fields of application are multiple and employment opportunities are rich, both in the business sector and at scientific institutions. The new nanotechnology course at the University of Western Sydney (UWS) has been developed to train a new skilled graduate workforce, with a broadly based but flexible approach to the challenges that lie ahead in nanotechnology. Opportunities also exist to work with nanotechnology research group at UWS, which is currently involved in the synthesis and experimental characterisation of nano materials for the usage in local industries.

Contact Dr Reynaldo Castillo via email R.Castillo@uws.edu.au or telephone (02) 4620 3208.

Dr Reynaldo Castillo - Course Coordinator

Dr Reynaldo Castillo
MSc, PhD (UNSW), LicFil (U of Chile)
Senior Lecture in Physics
Course Coordinator, BSc (Nanotechnology)

Research Interests: condensed matter physics, laser beam propagation applications in electron acceleration and atom manipulation, basic physics, differential geometry applications in relativity and quantum mechanics.

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