A 21st Century Revitalized Research and Research Training Infrastructure for Chemical and Biological Engineering

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该奖项支持爱荷华州州立大学（ISU）化学和生物工程（CBE）系进行生物材料和工艺（BioMaP）研究的7，695平方英尺湿实验室的翻新。 BioMaP研究设施位于一座建于1964年的校园建筑内，该建筑的设计无法适应近年来CBE中不断增加的BioMaP研究数量和复杂性;该设施中的20个独立实验室的柜台空间非常有限，化学通风柜陈旧，能源效率低下，有些无法使用。本项目将（a）在研究机构的屋顶上安装两个羽流式通风柜排气扇，以便通风柜在该机构中以安全和节能的方式运行，（B）电气升级，（c）去离子（DI）水系统，为整个机构提供DI水，（d）额外的机柜/柜台空间和新的化学通风柜/生物安全柜，（e）光纤线路，用于高性能计算研究的高速高带宽计算机连接。智力优势：ISU的BioMaP研究正在导致可持续生物可再生能源和化学品方面的新突破，这对减少对石化产品的依赖至关重要。BioMaP的研究领域包括聚合物生物材料，细胞动力学，催化/生物催化，纳米技术和计算材料/生物学。升级研究基础设施将使协作，跨学科的BioMaP研究，影响正在进行和未来研究的生产力，并为教师和学生创造下一代研究空间。这也将使更多的学生和多样化的学生在这些前沿领域的研究培训，为他们准备国家的未来的关键需求。更广泛的影响：改造将显着影响14名教师，60名研究生，70名本科生，和12名博士后研究人员。此外，翻新将提高学生的多样性，因为BioMaP教师正在领导两个NSF资助的REU项目，这些项目使用该设施，参与了几个项目，以积极促进学生的多样性，并在NSF支持的工程研究中心工作，专注于生物可再生能源化学品（CBiRC）。 翻新后的设施的另一个显著好处是通风柜的能源使用量减少了40%，从而使设施更具可持续性。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award supports the renovation of 7,695 square feet of wet laboratories for the conduct of research on Biological Materials and Processes (BioMaP) in the Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) department at Iowa State University (ISU). The BioMaP research facility is located in a campus building built in 1964, which was not designed to accommodate the increasing amount and complexity of BioMaP research in CBE in recent years; the twenty individual laboratories in the facility have very limited counter space, and the chemical fume hoods are old, energy inefficient, and some unusable. This project will install (a) two plume style fume hood exhaust fans on the roof of the research facility for fume hoods in this facility to operate in a safe and energy-efficient manner, (b) electrical upgrades, (c) a deionized (DI) water system to provide DI water to the entire facility, (d) additional cabinet/counter space and new chemical fume hoods/biological safety cabinets, and (e) fiber optic lines for high speed high bandwidth computer connectivity for high performance computing research.Intellectual Merit: The BioMaP research at ISU is leading to new breakthroughs in sustainable biorenewable sources of energy, as well as chemicals, that is vital to reducing dependence on petrochemical products. BioMaP research areas include polymeric biomaterials, cellular dynamics, catalysis/biocatalysis, nanotechnology, and computational materials/biology. Upgrading the research infrastructure will enable collaborative, interdisciplinary BioMaP research, impact productivity of ongoing and future research, and create the next-generation research space for faculty and students. It will also enable research training of a larger number of students and a diverse student body in these cutting edge areas to prepare them for the future critical needs of the nation.Broader Impacts: The renovations will significantly impact fourteen faculty, sixty graduate students, seventy undergraduate students, and twelve postdoctoral researchers. Additionally, the renovations will enhance the diversity of the students since the BioMaP faculty are leading two NSF-funded REU programs that use the facility, are involved in several programs to aggressively promote student diversity, and work in the NSF-supported Engineering Research Center focused on Chemicals from Biorenewables (CBiRC). Another significant benefit of the renovated facility will be a 40 percent reduction in energy usage for fume hoods, leading to a more sustainable facility.