Chemical and BioEnergy Technology for Sustainability

布朗克斯社区学院（BCC）将与工业、政府和学术合作伙伴合作，为可持续发展开发化学和生物能源技术应用科学副学士学位。该学位课程将结合生物学、化学和工程学的学科，培养社区大学学生从事新兴生物经济和绿色化学与发酵科学的交叉领域的职业。该项目将利用BCC正在进行的项目，如可持续能源中心、可再生燃料和可持续产品实验室以及现在的大学计划。“现在就上大学”将允许高中生在这一新兴领域获得大学学分。由于BCC在纽约市的城市位置，许多有机会参加这个项目的学生将来自传统上服务不足的背景。该项目的目标是为学生在新兴STEM领域的职业生涯做好准备，这些领域需要使用生物质原料平台来解决对更清洁、可再生能源和化学品的需求。新的学位课程将为社区大学学生提供与生物制造、可再生运输燃料和绿色化工原料相关领域的教育。该项目将利用首席研究员目前在仿生液体方面的工作（NSF I-Corp奖#1443859）和之前在制药技术和化学技术方面授予BCC的ATE奖（奖#0202386和#0936994）。BCC是纽约市的一所少数族裔服务机构，每年培养约11,500名学生。它是纽约24所城市大学系统的一部分，与服务区内的高中有重要的互动。这将使该项目能够影响相当数量在STEM领域代表性不足的学生，并为该地区的经济发展做出贡献。该项目将成为跨越学科界限的典范，帮助学生为STEM职业做好准备，并培养学生重要的中等就业技能。项目评估将重点关注项目发展的进展，并衡量学生的表现指标，如入学、成功和保留。

Bronx Community College (BCC), working with industrial, governmental, and academic partners, will develop an Associates of Applied Science degree in Chemical and BioEnergy Technology for Sustainability. This degree program will combine the disciplines of biology, chemistry, and engineering, and educate community college students for careers in the emerging bio-economy and at the interface of green chemistry and fermentation science. The project will leverage ongoing projects at BCC, such as the Center for Sustainable Energy, the Renewable Fuel and Sustainable Product Laboratory and the College Now program. College Now will allow high school students to earn college credits towards careers in this emerging field. Due to BCC's urban location in the City of New York, many of the students who have access to this project will come from traditionally underserved backgrounds. The goals of this project are to prepare students for careers in emerging STEM fields that address the need for cleaner, renewable energy and chemicals using a biomass feedstock platform. The new degree program will educate community college students in fields associated with biomanufacturing, renewable transportation fuels, and green chemical feedstocks. This program will leverage the principal investigator's current work in Bionic Liquids (NSF I-Corp Award #1443859) and prior ATE awards made to BCC in pharmtech and chemtech (Award #0202386 and #0936994). BCC is a minority-serving institution in the City of New York that educates approximately 11,500 students annually. It is part of the 24 college City University of New York system and has significant interactions with high schools in its service area. This will allow the project to impact a sizable number of students underrepresented in the STEM fields and contribute to the economic development of the region. The program will be a model for crossing disciplinary boundaries to prepare students for STEM careers and developing students' important middle employment skills. Project evaluation will focus on the progress of the developing the program and measuring student performance indicators such enrollment, success, and retention.