IAT students get training on nanotechnology in Taiwan

WAM Abu Dhabi, 31st July 2010 (WAM) — A group of Institute of Applied Technology (IAT) students are currently getting advanced training on nanotechnology and nanoscience in Taiwan as part of its summer training programme.
Dr. Abdul Lateef Al Shamsi, IAT Director General, said the engineering interns will pay field trips to eight of Taiwan’s leading nanotechnology research centres and tour the Hsinchu Science and Technology Industrial Park, a home to 360 high tech and R’&’D companies specializing in nanotechnology, semi-conductors and optical electronics. Hsinchu’s economy is estimated to be an annual $4 Billion GDP, with a per capita of $11,000 in US dollars.
He said the training programme was designed in coordination with Taipei-based Institutive of Physics of state-sponsored Academia Sinica.
”The Taiwan’s training programme falls within the IAT’s educational strategy to build capacities of students and hone their academic knowledge and experience with practical applications in the best international research centres so as to improve national educational output,”he added.
The IAT’s mission focuses on creating a world-class Career Technical Education system that will produce the scientists, engineers and technicians needed for the UAE to build a knowledge-based economy.
IAT’s integrated system of Career Technical Education (CTE) pathways contributes to the development of the UAE by: *Providing distinctive secondary school programs that integrate career and technical education with a rigorous academic core.
*Providing post-secondary CTE programs to meet the industrial needs and requirements of the nation.
*Maintaining externally benchmarked standards for all programs offered.
*Fostering close and cooperative relationships with the community, industry and government to ensure that IAT is responsive to national needs and expectations.
*Organising public and industry continuing education programmes in line with the needs of all stakeholders.
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