Chemical and BioEnergy Technology for Sustainability

布朗克斯社区学院（BCC）与工业，政府和学术合作伙伴合作，将开发化学和生物能源技术可持续发展应用科学学位的协会。这个学位课程将联合收割机生物，化学和工程学科，并教育社区大学生在新兴的生物经济和绿色化学和发酵科学的接口的职业生涯。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College Now计划。现在的大学将允许高中生在这个新兴领域的职业生涯中获得大学学分。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，这些领域使用生物质原料平台来满足对更清洁，可再生能源和化学品的需求。新的学位课程将教育社区大学学生在生物制造，可再生运输燃料和绿色化学原料相关领域。该计划将利用主要研究者目前在仿生液体方面的工作（NSF I-Corp Award #1443859）以及之前在制药技术和化学技术方面授予BCC的ATE奖项（Award #0202386和#0936994）。BCC是纽约市的一个少数民族服务机构，每年教育大约11 500名学生。它是纽约城市大学系统的24所学院的一部分，并与其服务区域内的高中有着重要的互动。这将使该项目能够影响相当数量的学生在STEM领域的代表性不足，并有助于该地区的经济发展。该计划将成为跨越学科界限的典范，为学生的STEM职业做好准备，并培养学生重要的中等就业技能。项目评估将侧重于开发程序和测量学生的表现指标，如入学，成功和保留的进展。

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.