Meeting Industry Demands for an Immunobiotechnology-Capable Workforce through College and Secondary Technician Education

以两年制大学为重点，先进技术教育（ATE）计划侧重于推动我国经济的高科技领域的技术人员教育。免疫生物技术是生物技术领域发展最快的学科之一。免疫生物技术包括对现代医学至关重要的两个主要领域：开发与免疫系统相关的药物和诊断方法，以及制造来自免疫系统（例如抗体）的治疗药物。免疫生物技术的工作需要专门的专业知识，这对中学生和大学生来说并不普遍。不断发展的行业需求和现有培训之间的差距意味着，即使是大学毕业生和在职的行业工人也必须寻求免疫生物技术方面的额外培训或教育，以获得和/或成功从事这些工作。通过为参加两年制大学学位和证书课程的学生提供增强的教育经验，并将该课程与中学教育联系起来，华盛顿海岸线社区学院的该项目将根据行业需求教育各种生物技术工作者，因为它提供了一个强大的教育和培训计划，以支持华盛顿州和美国不断增长的免疫生物技术行业。将通过与Bio-Link的协调传播通过该项目开发的可交付成果和最佳做法（美国国家生物技术ATE中心），在生命科学教学资源社区网站，在海岸线社区学院和奥斯汀社区学院主办的教师和教师发展机构，以及通过生物教育期刊和会议。生物技术是一个充满活力的行业，不断变化的方法和实践必须反映在技术人员培训和继续教育中，以确保新兴和在职劳动力拥有当前的高需求技能。目前，ATE的Bio-Link网络中没有其他项目提供免疫生物技术的证书或专业培训。该项目旨在填补这一空白，创建便携式课程免疫生物技术用于学位和证书课程的两年制大学和工具包为基础的教学单位，可用于高中教师在各种中学生物学课程。华盛顿州海岸线社区学院的研究人员与数字世界生物学合作，并与该地区生物技术行业的顾问进行咨询，将在学院现有生物技术项目的多门课程中纳入免疫生物技术主题，并将创建新的免疫生物技术课程，以应对当地行业的新兴需求。新课程包括药物开发案例研究，癌症生物学，质量体系，高级生物信息学，以及两个为学生提供独立研究经验的特殊项目课程。新课程将作为选修课程，为当前和未来的学生就读于海岸线的应用艺术和科学的生物技术协会（A.A.A.S.）学位和生物技术证书课程。新课程还包括可堆叠的Immunobiotech证书的核心，旨在帮助毕业生和在职行业工人更新他们的知识和技能。新的免疫生物技术课程将通过Bio-Link Course-in-a-Box（TM）功能传播到更广泛的生物技术技术人员教育社区。此外，该项目小组将开发和试点两个高中水平的免疫生物技术教学单元-传染病和癌症生物学-以鼓励中学生完成高中学业并寻求大学教育。未来，这些工具包将通过海岸线现有的生物技术计划工具包贷款计划提供给当地教师。便携式大学课程和高中教材包的传播可能会大大提高全国生物技术技术人员的准备程度。将采用形成性和总结性评价程序，以不断加强项目活动，并为研究和评价项目及其交付成果的成功提供机会。

With an emphasis on two-year colleges, the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program focuses on the education of technicians for the high-technology fields that drive our nation's economy. Immunobiotechnology is one of the fastest growing disciplines in the field of biotechnology. Immunobiotechnology encompasses two main areas that are vital to modern medicine: developing drug and diagnostic methods that relate to the immune system and manufacturing therapeutic drugs derived from the immune system (for example, from antibodies). Jobs in immunobiotechnology require specialized expertise that is not widely available for secondary and college students. The gap between evolving industry needs and existing training means that even college graduates and incumbent industry workers must seek additional training or education in immunobiotechnology to acquire and/or succeed in these jobs. By offering enhanced educational experiences to students enrolled in two-year college degree- and certificate programs and connecting this curriculum with secondary school education, this project at Shoreline Community College in Washington will educate a wide variety of biotechnology workers in line with industry needs as it provides a robust education and training program to support the growing immunobiotechnology industry of Washington state and the United States. The deliverables and best practices developed through the project will be disseminated through coordination with Bio-Link (a National ATE Center for Biotechnology), at Life Sciences Teaching Resources Community website, in faculty and teacher development institutes hosted at Shoreline Community College and at Austin Community College, and through biology education journals and conferences.Biotechnology is a dynamic industry, where continually changing methods and practices must be reflected in technician training and continuing education to ensure the emerging and incumbent workforce possesses current, high demand skills. Currently no other project in ATE's Bio-Link network offers a certificate or specialty training in immunobiotechnology. This project intends to fill this gap by creating portable courses in immunobiotechnology for use in degree and certificate programs by two-year colleges and kit-based instructional units that can be used by high school teachers in a variety of secondary biology courses. Investigators at Shoreline Community College in Washington state, collaborating with Digital World Biology and consulting with advisors from the region's biotechnology industry, will incorporate immunobiotechnology topics in multiple courses in the college's existing biotechnology program and will create new immunobiotechnology courses that respond to the emerging needs of local industry. New courses include Case Studies in Drug Development, Cancer Biology, Quality Systems, Advanced Bioinformatics, and two special projects courses providing independent research experiences for students. The new courses will serve as elective courses for current and future students enrolled in Shoreline's Biotechnology Associates of Applied Arts and Sciences (A.A.A.S.) Degree and Biotechnology Certificate programs. The new courses also comprise the core of a stackable Immunobiotech certificate aimed at graduates and incumbent industry workers seeking to update their knowledge and skills. The new immunobiotechnology courses will be disseminated to the broader biotechnology technician education community via the Bio-Link Course-in-a-Box(TM) feature. In addition, the project team will develop and pilot two high school level kit-based instructional units in immunobiotechnology - Infectious Disease and Cancer Biology - to encourage secondary students to complete high school and seek college-level education. In the future these kits will be available to local teachers through Shoreline's existing Biotechnology Program kit loan program. The dissemination of the portable college-level courses and high school-level kits is likely to dramatically improve the preparedness of technicians in biotechnology nationally. A formative and summative evaluation process will be employed to continuously enhance the project activities and provide opportunities for researching and evaluating the success of the project and its deliverables.