Scholarships for Mechanical Engineering Faculty to Attend Bioprocessing Courses

ASME的生物过程工程项目将在1990年秋季提供三门高级课程，并在1992年提供最多五门关于生物制药制造的高级课程：生物反应器动力学过程设备技术弗吉尼亚大学过程设备设计1990年10月15日和1992年3月这两个星期。受众是工艺开发、制造设施和设备工程师。每门3天的课程预计有50名学生。大多数美国生物技术行业都在使用劳动密集型和成本高昂的制造方法。ASME生物加工计划的目标是帮助该行业开发连续、仪表化和自动化的生产方法，使其治疗和兽用蛋白质在世界市场上具有竞争力。现在严重缺乏训练有素的工程师来扩大商业生产。这些课程将有助于缓解这一短缺，但大学必须完成大部分教育任务。要求为ME教师提供这些奖学金，以便他们能够参加ASME的生物处理设备、技术和设计方面的灌输课程。然后，他们将更好地准备在自己的机构开设课程，为美国生物技术行业培养合格的设备工程师。

The ASME's Bioprocess Engineering Program is presenting three advanced courses in Fall 1990 and up to five in 1992 concerning the manufacture of biopharmaceuticals: Bioreactor Kinetics Process Equipment Technology Process Equipment Design at the University of Virginia during the weeks of 15 October 1990 and March 1992. The audience is process- development, manufacturing-facility and equipment engineers. Fifty students are expected for each 3 day course. Most of the US biotechnology industry is employing labor intensive and costly manufacturing methods. The objective of the ASME's bioprocessing program is to help the industry develop continuous, instrumented and automated production methods which can make its therapeutic and veterinary proteins competitive in world markets. There now is a severe shortage of properly trained engineers for commercial-production scale-up. These courses will help relieve that shortage, but the universities must perform most of the education task. These scholarships for ME faculty are requested so that they may attend the ASME courses for indoctrination in bioprocessing equipment technology and design. Then they will be better prepared to initiate curricula at their institutions to produce qualified equipment engineers for the US biotechnology industry.