REU Site on Biological Materials and Processes (BioMaP)

REU 生物材料和工艺网站 (BioMaP)

• 批准号: 0552584
• 负责人: Balaji Narasimhan
• 金额: $ 37.06万
• 依托单位: Iowa State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-02-01 至 2009-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0552584&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Biological; Materials; Processes

Abstract for REU Site on Biological Materials and Processes (BioMaP)Institution: Iowa State UniversityPrincipal Investigator: Balaji NarasimhanThis REU award for a Site in Biological Engineering, specifically in the areas of Biological Materials and Processes (BioMaP), supports 10 undergraduates each year for three years in a 10-week summer research experience at Iowa State University. The cross-disciplinary nature of BioMaP enables students to discover the exciting biology/materials interface. The faculty team is diverse, has broad research interests, and an outstanding record of mentoring undergraduate students.A unique component of the program is the collaboration with the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) in Mexico, which will build on an existing partnership between the two institutions and provide students with the experience of performing research in a foreign laboratory. In an increasingly smaller world, engineers must be prepared to understand other cultures, other ways of doing business, and expand their exportable and language skills. This research experience will equip students with these critical attributes as they enter the real world.The integration of new techniques is opening the door to the resolution of biological questions (such as the functioning of the immune system) deemed intractable only a few years ago. This new knowledge together with the deciphering of human, animal and plant genomes has sparked a biological revolution. The result is an explosion of entirely new industries in healthcare, medicine, food and nutrition, chemical synthesis, materials, and agriculture. Nanotechnology allied with biotechnology are the underpinning technologies pushing the rapid advances in genomics, combinatorial chemistry, biocatalysis, enzyme engineering, bioinformatics, and tissue engineering. In this exciting scenario, chemical engineers are making key research contributions at the interface of biology, chemistry, and engineering. This new paradigm of education and research demands that undergraduates be exposed to rich problems that dwell at the interfaces and experience the excitement associated with research and discovery.

生物材料与过程(BioMaP)REU站点机构：爱荷华州立大学首席研究员：Balaji NarasimhanREU生物工程站点奖，特别是在生物材料与过程(BioMaP)领域，每年支持10名本科生，为期三年，在爱荷华州立大学为期10周的暑期研究体验。BioMaP的跨学科性质使学生能够发现令人兴奋的生物/材料界面。该项目的一个独特组成部分是与墨西哥蒙特雷高级技术研究所(ITESM)的合作，这将建立在两所机构之间现有合作伙伴关系的基础上，并为学生提供在外国实验室进行研究的经验。在一个越来越小的世界里，工程师必须准备好了解其他文化、其他做生意的方式，并扩大他们的出口能力和语言技能。这一研究经验将使学生在进入现实世界时具备这些关键属性。新技术的整合正在为解决几年前还被认为难以解决的生物学问题(如免疫系统的功能)打开了大门。这一新知识与人类、动物和植物基因组的破译一起引发了一场生物革命。其结果是医疗保健、医药、食品和营养、化学合成、材料和农业等全新行业的爆炸性增长。纳米技术与生物技术相结合是推动基因组学、组合化学、生物催化、酶工程、生物信息学和组织工程等领域快速发展的基础技术。在这个激动人心的场景中，化学工程师在生物、化学和工程学的界面上做出了关键的研究贡献。这种新的教育和研究范式要求本科生接触到驻留在界面上的丰富问题，并体验与研究和发现相关的兴奋。