CAREER: A Career Development Plan to Expand the Integration of Novel Molecular Techniques and Design Experiences into Environmental Engineering Research and Teaching

Raskin 9733826这是一个奖项，用于支持根据向教师早期职业发展（Career）计划提交建议的指导方针提出的项目，NSF 97-87。因此，这个项目兼具研究和教育的成分。她的研究部分是基于NSF资助号94-10476下的工作的延续。它的目的是获得比现在更好的理解与使用悬浮生长生物反应器处理废水有关的起泡和膨胀问题的原因，作为控制这些问题的一步。她的新研究目标是扩大对丝状细菌引起这些问题的作用的研究，优化和验证它们的检测和鉴定程序，并在反应器研究中应用核酸探针和分子信标来制定合理的控制起泡和膨胀的措施。首席研究员的教育内容包括改进现有的有关水质的课程，并与工程咨询公司Carollo Engineers合作，改进本科生和高级水平的水质控制课程的设计内容。她的教育计划包括将动态数学模型、她的研究成果和相关领域的经验整合到她的研究生课程中。她还计划开发一门讲习班/研究生水平的实验课程，以反映分子生物学程序及其在环境工程实践中的应用日益重要。她的计划是与其他几家环境工程咨询公司、生物技术和食品加工业以及市政当局保持密切联系，以便在课程发展方面提供指导，以加强她的研究和教学活动。* * *

Raskin 9733826 This is an award to support a project proposed in accord with the Guidelines for Submission of Proposals to the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program, NSF 97-87. As such, this project has both a research and educational component. Her research component is based on a continuation of work initiated under NSF Grant No. 94-10476. It was aimed obtaining a better understanding than now exists of the causes of foaming and bulking problems associated with wastewater treatment by use of suspended growth bioreactors as a step toward exercising control of these problems. Her new research objectives are to expand her study of the role played by filamentous bacteria responsible for causing these problems, optimize and validate procedures for their detection and identification, and to apply nucleic acid probes and molecular beacons in reactor studies to develop rational control measures for foaming and bulking. The Principal Investigator's educational component includes improvement of existing courses dealing with water quality and collaboration with Carollo Engineers, a consulting engineering firm, to improve the design content of an undergraduate, senior level course in water quality control. Her education plan includes integration of dynamic mathematical models, results of her research and a relevant field experience into her graduate- level course. She also plans on development of a workshop/graduate level laboratory course that reflects the increasing importance of molecular biology procedures and their application in environmental engineering practice. Her plan is to maintain strong contacts with several other environmental engineering consulting firms, biotechnology and food processing industries and municipalities for guidance in curriculum development applicable to strengthening her research and teaching activities. ***