I/UCRC for an Cooperative Partnership Initiative between CAPPS and the Institut Pertanian Bogor

连续无菌加工和包装是过去50年来食品加工最具革命性的发展。这项技术正在迅速取代其他司空见惯的标准做法。欧洲公司采用无菌工艺的速度似乎比美国更快。美国公司现在认识到需要进行研究以保持竞争力。作为国家科学基金会规划拨款(CDR86-13062)的结果，无菌加工和包装研究的行业/大学合作研究中心似乎是可行的和可行的。这笔为期五年的持续赠款将资助北卡罗来纳州立大学与弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学的研究人员合作，在北卡罗来纳州立大学建立一个行业/大学无菌加工和包装研究合作研究中心。最初的研究计划将涉及表面特征和相互作用；产品特性；以及非传统加工。预计将有9家公司成为该中心的成员，提供每年约40万美元的初始研究预算中的约75%。首席调查员和他的同事在各自的学科领域都是国家公认的专家，并拥有运营该中心所需的经验和行业联系。该中心与Duane Bruley博士(CBT)和Frederick Heineken(EET)进行了协调。项目经理建议授予北卡罗来纳州立大学一笔为期五年的持续补助金，其资金来源如下：前三年为75,000美元，第四年为50,000美元，第五年为25,000美元。建议在第一年为“支持妇女、少数群体和残疾人工程研究助理补充资金”方案再提供5,000美元。每12个月接近结束时，项目经理和/或跨学科研究司司长将审查中心在一系列更新标准方面的进展，包括：(1)大学/行业互动和合作的发展程度；(2)中心的支助基础扩大的程度；(3)一个健全的研究计划正在发展的程度。如果审查令人满意，项目经理将建议支持下一阶段的持续拨款。

Continuous aseptic processing and packaging is the most revolutionary development food processing has seen in the last fifty years. This technology is rapidly replacing other standard practices which have been commonplace. European companies appear to be incorporating aseptic processing more rapidly then in the United States. U.S. companies now recognize the need for research to maintain competitiveness. As a result of an NSF planning grant (CDR 86-13062) an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Aseptic Processing and Packaging Studies appears to be feasible and viable. This five-year continuing grant is funding the initiation of an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Aseptic Processing and Packaging Studies at North Carolina State University in collaboration with researchers from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. The initial research program will address Surface Characteristics and Interactions; Product Properties; and Non-traditional Processing. Nine companies are expected to be members of the Center providing about 75% of the approximately $400,000 per year initial research budget. The Principal Investigator and his colleagues are nationally recognized experts in their disciplines and have the experience and industrial contacts necessary to operate this Center. The Center has been coordinated with Drs. Duane Bruley (CBT) and Frederick Heineken (EET). The Program Manager recommends that the North Carolina State University be awarded a five-year continuing grant to be funded as follows: $75,000 for the first three years, $50,000 for fourth year and $25,000 for fifth year. An additional $5,000 is recommended for the "Supplemental Funding for Support of Women, Minority, and Handicapped Engineering Research Assistants" Program during the first year. Near the end of each 12-month period, the Program Manager and/or the Head of The Division of Cross-Disciplinary Research will review the progress of the Center on a number of renewal criteria, including the following: (1) extent to which university/industry interaction and collaboration is developing; (2) extent to which the support base for the center is expanding; (3) extent to which a robust research program is developing. If review is satisfactory, the Program Manager will recommend support of the next period of this continuing grant.