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IB Design Technology classes attended a field trip to the Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation
Biomedical Nanotechnology Institute at the University of Miami (BioNIUM) at the Converge Miami
Building. Students had the opportunity to visit the Physiomimetic Microsystems Laboratory where
they learned about organ mimic platforms, colloquially called "organ on a chip," for drug therapy
discovery and for modeling of different diseases. Additionally, students visited the Nanofabrication
Facility, where they dressed in cleanroom garments to visit both the Class 1000 Nanofabrication
Processing Clean Room and the Class 100 Photolithography Clean Room. Students learned
about nanofabrication techniques, typically used in the biomedical, semiconductor, and electronic
industries, including thin film deposition, film etching, and photolithography. They were able to

1use the scanning electron microscope (SEM) where
images as small as 10 nanometers were visible. For perspective, a human hair is 80,000 to 100,000
nm wide. A silicon wafer was printed at the facility for each student with the UM mascot and
Carrollton school logos using nanofabrication techniques. Thank you to Dr. Sylvia Daunert, Director
of BioNIUM, Dr. Ashutosh Agarwal, Associate Director of BioNIUM, Melissa Dietrick, Business
Operations Manager at BioNIUM, and Kevin Luongo, the Nanofab Facility Manager, for welcoming
our students. For more information about BioNIUM, please visit http://bionium.miami.edu/.