ABSTRACT
This chapter prepares teaching material in nanotechnology that could be used in a couple of lectures to be incorporated in a junior-level course of thermodynamics or other basic energy science course. It is devoted to the discussion of how to introduce the topic of nanotechnology in the basic sciences and, hence, into the curricula of engineering students. The chapter introduces some of the fundamental ideas regarding nanotechnology that relates to the energy sciences as it may be presented to a junior-level engineering class. It also consists of a discussion of heat transfer applications. Following this, the effects on nanotechnology developments in heat transfer applications are discussed. Several of the case studies can be presented to students in order to show them the wealth of research and relevant scientific quandaries have come about as a result of the growth of nanotechnology.
