Continuing
professional education for engineers
Fundamentals of Vapor Deposition Online
- Upcoming
course offering: June 2-13, 2008
Fundamentals
of Vapor Deposition Online introduces students to essential
concepts involved in using vapor deposition techniques to
create thin film materials. Students will be exposed to core
concepts of the most common types of vapor deposition technologies.
In addition, topics in nucleation and growth of films, kinetics
of vapor deposition of films, and failure mechanisms of films
will be presented in order to develop an understanding of
the connection between vapor deposition parameters and thin
film properties. Topics include:
- Evaporation
- Kinetics
of vapor deposition
- Sputtering
- Nucleation
and growth of thin films
- Chemical
vapor deposition
- Failure
mechanisms of thin films
- Molecular
beam epitaxy
The material
presented in the course is equivalent to the amount of information
covered in one, eight-hour duration "live" course.
This is an online course, with a supplemental CD which participants
may keep. Students can complete the course at their own pace
over a designated two-week long period. During this time,
students will be able to contact the instructor privately
via e-mail with questions. Students will also be able to participate
in group discussions of questions online. Each unit (listed
above) will have a discussion page on which students can post
questions specific to the content in that unit. The instructor
will answer the posted questions daily, and students are welcome
to participate in the discussion of topics raised by other
students.
Completion requirement
In order
to complete the course and earn Continuing
Education Units and a course completion certificate from
the University of Delaware, the instructor will ask each student
to provide a short answer essay (500 words or less) to a question
based on practical applications involving vapor deposition.
The student may pick one question to answer from a list of
several questions.
Course audience
The information
presented in the course will be useful for professionals who
are new to the field of vapor deposition as well as for practitioners
already in the field of vapor deposition who want to learn
more about vapor deposition technology related to their field
of expertise. No prior formal training in vapor deposition
technologies is required for participants to benefit from
the course.
Online course format
Online
courses offer the opportunity to conveniently attend classes
any time, any place. In an online course the instructor and
course registrants are interconnected through a computer network.
Using the Internet, students can at any time receive instruction,
compose and submit assignments, ask questions of the instructor
and other registrants, discuss issues, and actively participate
in the class from home, office, or the nearest campus computer
laboratory.
Registrants
who complete the course receive one Continuing
Education Unit (CEU) and a course completion certificate
from the University of Delaware. The program emphasizes innovative
instruction and learning. The instructor and course registrants
can leverage the wealth of resources available through the
Internet to support this instruction.
Course materials
CD-ROM
titled, "Interfacial Systems Engineering Vapor Deposition,"
published by WESEECO™
Instructor: S. Ismat Shah, Ph.D., University of Delaware
Professor
Shah received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. He worked for the Dupont Company for 12
years before joining the University of Delaware. He has a
joint appointment in the departments of Materials Science
and Engineering and Physics and Astronomy. He also works as
the manager of the Nanostructured Materials Program at the
Fraunhofer Center, Delaware. Professor Shah has been involved
with thin films and nanostructured materials for more than
20 years. He has over 80 publications and 6 patents in the
area of thin films and nanostructures. His expertise includes
PVD and CVD processes, photocatalysis, electronic materials,
magnetic materials, etc. Feel free to contact Dr. Shah with
course inquiry questions at ismat@udel.edu.
Co-sponsor and contact information
This course
is offered by the University of Delaware in cooperation with
the Society of Vacuum Coaters.
For additional details about the course, write to svcinfo@svc.org.
The University
of Delaware contact is Melanie Rehberg, Program Manager
MelanieR@udel.edu or
302-831-1079.
Registration and fees
The course
is typically offered twice a year: December and June.
Upcoming
course offering: June 2-13, 2008
Tuition: $495
You can register by mail, phone, fax, or online. Please note
the registration number 0817100-901-08J-MR
and click here for detailed registration
instructions. |
