SBIR Phase I: Equipment and Experiment Resources for Fermentation Technology

微生物过程在研究和工业中非常突出，但很少有大学实验室，更少的高中课程能够向学生介绍这种技术。 EDVOTEK，Inc.的小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目。将进行研究，重点是开发生物技术教学资源的可行性，其中包括具有成本效益的发酵设备。 这些设备将用于基于问题的调查实验。 沿着发酵罐在成本和简单性方面的优势，EDVOTEK提出了制作实验室实验来说明各种过程。 将研究培养基、活接种物和每个实验所需的所有配件的试剂盒。 在这个时候，没有发酵设备在合理的成本（500美元至1000美元），可以模拟在生物技术工业中使用。 同样，也没有现成的商业实验，可以提供新的方法来教学和学习发酵生物技术。 该项目将有助于目前无法获得的：具有成本效益的发酵设备和配套实验，从而提高学生对生物学概念的理解，从而阐明学生对实验室活动与现实生活中生物技术问题解决方案之间关系的认识。

Microbial processes are very prominent in research and industry, but few college laboratories, and fewer high school courses are able to present this technology to their students. This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project from EDVOTEK, Inc. will conduct research focusing on the feasibility of developing biotechnology teaching and learning resources, which include cost-effective fermentation equipment. This equipment will be utilized with investigative problem-based experiments. Along with the advantages in cost and simplicity of fermenters, EDVOTEK proposes to craft laboratory experiments illustrating a variety of processes. Kits of culture media, live inocula, and all the accessories needed for each experiment will be researched. At this time there is no fermentation equipment at reasonable cost ($500 to $1000) that can simulate that used in the biotechnology industry. Likewise, there are no readily available commercial experiments that can provide new approaches to teaching and learning fermentation biotechnology. The project will contribute what is currently unavailable: cost-effective fermentation equipment and accompanying experiments and thereby enhance student understanding of biological concepts in such a way as to illuminate student cognizance of the relationship between laboratory activities and the solution of real-life biotechnology problems.