NANO at Virginia Tech

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate NANO coursework.

• CHEM 1036General Chemistryopens 10 courses (1.9 directly)
• CHEM 1056General Chemistry for Chemistry Majorsopens 10 courses (1.9 directly)
• NANO 1016Introduction to Nanoscienceopens 7 courses (2.5 directly)
• NANO 1024Nanoscience: From Principles to Technologyopens 7 courses (2.5 directly)
• CHEM 2565Principles of Organic Chemistryopens 6 courses (0.9 directly)
• PHYS 2306Foundations of Physicsopens 5 courses (2.3 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate NANO work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 37 NANO and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 10 more NANO courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on NANO, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in NANO. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 6 courses deep, ending at NANO 4334

  1. CHEM 1035General Chemistry
  2. CHEM 1036General Chemistry
  3. CHEM 2514Survey of Organic Chemistry
  4. NANO 3015Nanoscale Synthesis, Fabrication, and Characterization
  5. NANO 4324Introduction to Nanomedicine
  6. NANO 4334Advanced Nanomedicine

• 5 courses deep, ending at NANO 4124

  1. MATH 1026Elementary Calculus
  2. PHYS 2205General Physics
  3. PHYS 2206General Physics

• 4 courses deep, ending at NANO 2334

  1. MATH 1026Elementary Calculus
  2. PHYS 2205General Physics
  3. NANO 2314Applied Quantitative Methods: From Quantum to the Macroscale

• 4 courses deep, ending at NANO 3114

  1. NANO 1015Introduction to Nanoscience
  2. NANO 1016Introduction to Nanoscience
  3. NANO 2114Nanoscience Research Seminar

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for NANO yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under NANO yet.

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Department events

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