Professor Xiang Zhang, faculty member of the Mechanical Engineering department at UC Berkeley, is pleased to announce that NSF has just awarded $17.5M (a 5-year grant) for the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) located at
Berkeley, which is also known as the Center for Scalable and Integrated Nano-Manufacturing, or SINAM. SINAM is the largest NSF funded NSEC center and brings multi-disciplinary research across campuses. Professor Zhang is the director of SINAM.

The Center is looking forward to working with colleagues in ME and
COE to build this center into a world leader in nanotechnology.
Education outreach is a key component of SINAM's mission: The center has a summer nano-manufacturing research program that funds both undergraduate and high school students. Also SINAM has created a unique Graduate Young Investigator (GYI) program that funds students "big ideas," etc. In addition, the SINAM industrial consortium of 10+ companies bridges academic research and industrial applications.

SINAM is proud to be part of Berkeley, COE and ME, and the Center looks forward to contributing more to Berkeley's excellence in engineering.