The current fad in advertising one's Department to potential engineering students is to claim to be at the forefront of nano-engineering, nano-technology or nano-materials. This talk will review some of the aspects of nano-materials in the teaching of Materials Science and/or Metallurgy. Since the symposium is in honor of my long time colleague and friend Professor Massalski, who will receive the 2006 Czochralski Prize, I will focus on nano-materials and phase equilibria. How we included nano in our 20^th century curricula will be reviewed and how we now include it in the 21^st century curricula will be presented and discussed. Some thoughts about nano and the future also will be presented. I will close with some thoughts on the danger of designing a curriculum around fads.

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