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

拉斯金9733826这是一个奖项，以支持在雅阁与教师早期职业发展（CAREER）计划，NSF 97-87提交建议的指导方针提出的项目。 因此，该项目既有研究也有教育的组成部分。 她的研究部分是基于NSF资助号94-10476下发起的工作的延续。 它的目的是获得一个更好的理解比现在存在的泡沫和膨胀问题的原因与废水处理通过使用悬浮生长生物反应器作为一个步骤，对行使控制这些问题。 她的新的研究目标是扩大她的丝状细菌负责引起这些问题所发挥的作用的研究，优化和验证程序，他们的检测和识别，并在反应堆研究中应用核酸探针和分子信标，以制定合理的控制措施发泡和膨胀。 首席研究员的教育部分包括改进现有的水质课程，并与一家咨询工程公司Alberlo Engineers合作，改进本科生高年级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的实地经验融入她的研究生课程。 她还计划开发一个研讨会/研究生水平的实验室课程，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。 她的计划是保持与其他几个环境工程咨询公司，生物技术和食品加工行业和市政当局在课程开发适用于加强她的研究和教学活动的指导强有力的联系。 ***

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. ***