"Clarkson University, formerly Clarkson College of Technology, is a private university located in rural Potsdam, New York. It was founded in 1896 and has an enrollment of about 3,000 students studying towards bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in each of its three schools: the School of Business, School of Arts & Sciences, and the Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering.

University of North Texas (Denton, Texas) is the home of the Advanced Research and Technology Institute, which receives $4 million for nano-research under the 2007 Department of Defense Appropriations Bill. In 2006, UNT's Collge of Engineering began offering a B. S. in materials science and engineering (MSE), which focuses on studies in metals, ceramics, polymers, electronic materials, biomaterials, and nanomaterials.

The Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (Nashville, TN) operating out of the School of Engineering has on-going work in nano-optics; nano-bio processes; spintronics; nanoscale electronics; nanocrystal fabrication, characterization, and integration; and radiation effects and defect studies.

The Department of Mechanical Engineering was founded in 1968. In 1995, the undergraduate program of Manufacturing Engineering was established. A Petroleum Engineering minor was added to the Mechanical Engineering program in 1997. To reflect the change of these Programs, the department was renamed as the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering in 1998. A Mechatronics Engineering minor was added to the Mechanical Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering programs in 2002.