The courses use the same tools as the research: build a model, compute a property, compare with what is measured.
Two new courses, NE140 and NE440, bookend the computational nanoengineering curriculum: the first puts a simulation in a student's hands in week one; the second ends with a first-principles prediction of a measurable property. In between, EP470 and PH405 supply the electronic-structure and semiconductor physics that the papers rely on.
Lectures across PH111–PH113 use interactive simulations and app-based tools; NE180, NE280, and NE320 each carry a computational-modelling unit. Assessment is frequent and low-stakes, with immediate feedback.
Directed studies offered: Quantum Sensing with NV Centers · Band Alignment in Heterobilayers · Next-Generation Battery Materials.
Every demonstration is live physics, not a picture: move the slider and the model recomputes; most keep moving on their own.
A local-first platform for interferometric fringe simulation, image preprocessing, uncertainty-aware fringe-spacing and phase extraction, and an explanatory local AI tutor, built for the optics laboratories and deployed in 2026. Students analyse their own interferograms with quantified uncertainty rather than reading a number off a ruler. The platform is also a student software project: see scientific software opportunities.