NE 320LCharacterization of Materials Laboratory

Units: 0.25
Faculty: Engineering
Subject: Nanotechnology Engineering

When it runs

Ran in 2 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

Follow-up labs associated with the NE 226 (Characterization of Materials) course. The laboratory exercises focus upon the synthesis and characterization of nano-based materials. Specifically, the synthesis of carbon nanotubes, quantum dots, magnetic ceramics, or other common nanomaterials will be investigated, and sample preparations for various characterization tools will be carried out. Characterization techniques such as infrared and Raman spectroscopy, x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscope (SEM), and magnetic inductive heating will be utilized.

Prerequisites

Complete all of the following
- Must have completed the following:
  - NE226 - Characterization of Materials (0.50)
- Students must be in level 3A
- Enrolled in H-Nanotechnology Engineering

Antirequisites

None listed.

Leads to

No course lists it as a requisite.

Reviewed on UW Flow

89% liked it58% easy75% useful

From 19 ratings and 4 comments on UW Flow. The most helpful comments, quoted as written, without names. Read them all on UW Flow.

Labs are easy but it is tooooooooooooooooooo time consuming. Imagine sitting in front of a flask for 3 hours staring at the liquid

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labs were def fun but for some reason the marking of everything was so rough with 0 rubric, they just wanted to hand you a few 60's if you havent gotten any yet ig

Aug 2022 · liked itOn UW Flow Remove this
The labs were decent, should probably be done in 2nd year though because they're not particularly difficult or particularly interesting as a third year. That said, the course was still well done.

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Fun Lab course, compared to other labs the reports and performance marks were on average lower, but still a very interesting course that covers a lot of cool topics such as quantum dots.

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Discussed on r/uwaterloo

2 posts and comments in 2 threads mention NE 320L, June 2011 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Spring 2017

Aug 16, 2017 What is the highest number of courses you can take per term? 2 points, 12 comments

“I heard recently that in engineering, there is no hard upper limit on how many courses you can take. Due to time limits/etc, what do you think is the theoretical maximum number of courses that would …”

u/ehhhk: “… In Nano, 3A, you are enrolled in 9 courses straight out: NE 301, NE 318, NE 320L, NE 333, NE 334, NE 343, NE 344, NE 350 and a CSE (Source). Granted, one of those is a seminar, one is a work term report, and one of them is a lab. …”

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Spring 2011

Jun 21, 2011 Okay /r/uwaterloo, what's your faculty? 11 points, 68 comments

“I see a lot of CS majors on here, just wondering if the majority of you guys are CS. I myself am an engineering student”

u/gramw: “I'm in Engineering - ECE MASc : >.”

u/gramw: “I generally TA the Nano lab courses - NE320L, NE454L-471L and NE455L-471L.”