According to the National Science Foundation (USA), “Nano-related business could be a $1 trillion market by 2015, making it not only one of the fastest growing industries in history but also larger than the combined Telecommunications and Information Technology industries at the beginning of the technology boom in 1998.”
According to the Nanotechnology Victoria, estimates have been made of the number of new graduates needed by 2015 in order to support Nanotechnology research based industry, and preliminary figures indicate that over 1 million Nanotechnology-skilled personnel may be required.
Nanotechnology is an interdisciplinary domain, students from all the disciplines, those who want to leverage their careers in various domains including Pharma, IT, Electronics, Polymers, Healthcare, Medicine, Textile, Automobiles, Telecom, Biotechnology, Chemicals, Food, Computing, R&D, Marketing of products and training, etc. will come across Nanotechnology applications in their respective streams.
Students can exploit their potential by applying Nanotechnology knowledge in their current streams.
NSTC has been running the Nanotechnology Sensitization Program successfully and admissions to the next batch of the program are invited. There is no restriction of qualification and age for joining this program. Interested participants namely, under-graduates/ graduates/ post-graduates in all disciplines, experienced professionals, academicians and researchers may join.