Nano-Tera.ch: Engineering Complex Systems for Health, Security, and the Environment [IEEE News]

The Nano-Tera.ch initiative is a collaborative engineering program that fosters research and crossbreeding of hardware and software technologies in the areas of implantable, wearable, and ambient systems. The scientific outcome is expected to better the quality of health, security, and environmental systems; to foster a vision of engineering with social objectives; and to promote related educational programs. The mission of this program can be summarized as the research, design, and engineering of complex (terascale) systems using micro/ nanotechnologies to monitor and connect humans and/or the environment through distributed and networked systems and services.