Leadership Projects in Laboratory Development: A Bioprocessing Laboratory

迫切需要强调科学家和工程师之间跨学科互动以及多学科团队解决问题方法的生物过程工程教育计划。然而，这些课程的实施是困难的，因为很少有模型可以作为这些课程开发的基础。这个ILI-LLD项目将创建一个生物处理实验室，以解决当前生物过程工程师教育中的两个关键问题：工程师和学生在生命科学方面缺乏互动，以及缺乏与工业相关的生物处理设备的动手实验室经验。该项目将发展一个多学科生物处理实验室，利用交互式多媒体计算机培训模块，并使工业界参与实验室的设计、实施和评估阶段。将开发6个实验室实验和3个多媒体模块。多学科环境将要求学生培养与来自生物科学的同事交流的能力，并将通过交互式多媒体来促进，这将有助于弥合工程与生物科学之间的信息鸿沟。最后，工业参与将确保实验室培养本科生以满足生物加工工业的需要。工业界代表将出席本季度末实验室小组的口头报告，并将审查LLD项目的最终产品：实验和多媒体模块的详细描述。

Educational programs in bioprocess engineering that emphasize cross-disciplinary interactions between scientists and engineers and a multidisciplinary team approach to problem-solving, are urgently required. The implementation of these programs is difficult, however, because few models exist on which to base the development of such curricula. This ILI-LLD project will create a bioprocessing laboratory which addresses two key problems in the current education of bioprocess engineers: the lack of interaction between engineers and students in the life sciences and the lack of hands-on laboratory experience with industrially-relevant bioprocessing equipment. This project will develop a multidisciplinary bioprocessing laboratory that utilizes interactive multimedia computer training modules and involves industrial participation in the design, implementation and valuation phases of the laboratory. Six laboratory experiments and three multimedia modules will be developed. The multidisciplinary environment will require students to develop the ability to communicate with colleagues from the biological sciences and will be facilitated by interactive multimedia which will be used to help bridge the information gap between engineering and the biological sciences. Finally, industrial participation will insure that the laboratory trains undergraduates to meet the needs of the bioprocessing industry. Industrial representatives will attend end of the quarter oral presentations by the laboratory groups, and will review the final products of the LLD project: detailed descriptions of the experiments and the multimedia modules.