By MIKE ISAACS | misaacs@pioneerlocal.com February 19, 2013 5:38PM

Oakton Community College's John Baliga teaches his "Fundamentals of Nanotechnology" class last month on the Skokie campus. Students are soon to work at the Illinois Science + Technology Park. | Joel Lerner~Sun-Times Media

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Updated: February 21, 2013 10:28AM

Sometimes the largest step forward comes from the smallest technology.

Theres no better proof of that than the course now being taught at Oakton Community Colleges Skokie campus.

Fundamentals of Nanotechnology is a response of sorts to the growing need in a science field that demands work at the smallest level.

Theres definitely a demand for this kind of work, more than before, said teacher John Baliga before he got ready to teach his course recently at Oakton.

It may have seemed like any other course a teacher standing in front of a classroom as about a dozen people paid rapt attention to a lecture. But that lecture will prepare these serious-minded students soon for an extraordinary hands-on learning opportunity.

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Oakton Community College kicks off nanotechnology program