Bowdoin, UMaine to Offer Joint Engineering Program

Bowdoin College and the University of Maine (UMaine) announced today an engineering education partnership to help address Maine's need for engineers. The arrangement, announced in Augusta by Maine Gov. John Baldacci, creates a five-year program of study, with the first three years at Bowdoin. Students who complete the program will receive degrees from both Bowdoin and UMaine, and they will be prepared for engineering careers or graduate school. At Bowdoin, students will take math and science classes to complete UMaine's General Education requirements. Initially, students will be able to specialize in one of three engineering disciplines: biological engineering, civil engineering or engineering physics. Eventually, the program will be expanded into UMaine's four other engineering disciplines. Bowdoin students are expected to enroll at UMaine as early as fall 2008, officials said.

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nano: An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
photonics: The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...