This course offers two distinct tracks. To\nreceive a statement of accomplishment, students will complete basic quizzes and\na final exam. For those who wish to receive a receive\na statement of accomplishment with distinction, they will need to complete in-depth quizzes and a peer-graded project in addition to the statement of accomplishment criteria.
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Regardless of track, students are given two\nweeks to complete every assignment after posting. Also the late policy\nprovides students with 8 days to apply as needed.
\n\n\nThis course requires that students (a) have ready access to and facility with a spreadsheet program like Excel; (b) have had a freshman level science class and are familiar with college level chemistry and physics.
\nThis course requires that students (a) have ready access to a spreadsheet program like Google Spreadsheet, Excel or Open Office; (b) have had a freshman level science class and have familiarity with advanced high school or college freshman chemistry and physics.
Rice University does not issue transcripts but does support certificates of accomplishment associated with classes as described on the course page. Coursera will maintain limited data regarding student progress and performance in this course and, with your permission, provide authorized third parties with access to such data.
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Vicki Colvin is the Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University. Most recently, she has served as the Director of the Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN), which was one of the nation's first nanoscience and engineering centers. Vicki's current research explores how nanoscale particles interact with the environment and living systems. In 2007, Vicki was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society, and in 2011 she was named a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. In 2012 she was recognized as one of the most highly cited researchers in the ACS journal Chemistry of Materials. She is an author on over one hundred papers and holds multiple patents in the area of nanotechnology. ![](\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/coursera/topics/nanotech/instructor-2.jpg\")
Professor Mittleman is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University and the Faculty Director of the Richard E. Smalley Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He received his B.S. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988, and his M.S. in 1990 and Ph.D. in 1994, both in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, under the direction of Dr. Charles Shank. At Rice, his research interests involve various aspects of spectroscopy, sensing, and imaging using terahertz radiation and ultrafast optics. Dr. Mittleman is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and of the IEEE."
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