Expansion, Curriculum Evolution, and Enhancement of Biotechnician Training

生物技术人员培训的扩展、课程演变和加强

• 批准号: 2100072
• 负责人: Kristy McGuire
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: Wistar Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-05-15 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2100072&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Expansion; Curriculum; Evolution; Enhancement; Biotechnician

An urgent need exists for a highly trained, diverse life sciences research workforce to support the rapidly expanding U.S. biotechnology industry. To address this need, this award will enable Wistar Institute to entirely re-design an existing hands-on, mentored technician training program and expand it to additional community colleges. The project will provide students with research experiences required for employment as technicians in biomedical research. Students will participate in an accelerated, paid summer program that includes pre-apprenticeship training, a hands-on Orientation at Wistar, and two full-time mentored laboratory experiences. Program graduates will be prepared for immediate employment as laboratory technicians or for advanced training through Wistar’s Biomedical Research Technician Apprenticeship program. The project aims to engage a diverse and underrepresented student population in life sciences research, while offering a direct path to employment as a laboratory technician. The project will address the compelling need to prepare community college students who have been disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic for employment in the skilled biotechnology workforce. This program can also serve as a model for other community colleges and scientific research partners.The project has three primary goals: 1) Expand to recruit more students, including those from new community college partners, while developing articulation agreements that make the project a credit-bearing experience; 2) Develop a novel project-based curriculum that more effectively engages students, especially those from underrepresented groups, in biotechnology research skills training; and 3) Redesign the existing two-summer program as a one-summer experience that includes full-time internships in both academic and industry labs. The project will use Wistar’s interactive trainee website to maintain data, measure student outcomes, track career development, and provide networking opportunities. The project will also compare participation and outcomes of students in Wistar’s existing two-summer program with those in the new one-summer option. The project plans to map specific skills and competency standards, as well as disseminate training models and materials. It is anticipated that the project can provide a blueprint for incorporating biotechnician pre-apprenticeship training into biotechnology and science curricula at community colleges, while serving as a model for regional program expansion. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the nation's economy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

迫切需要一家受过良好训练的潜水生命科学研究人员，以支持迅速扩展的美国生物技术行业。为了满足这一需求，该奖项将使Wistar Institute能够完全重新设计现有的实践，修复技术培训计划，并将其扩展到其他社区大学。该项目将为学生提供员工作为生物医学研究技术的研究经验。学生将参加一项加速的付费夏季计划，其中包括批准前培训，Wistar的动手介绍以及两种全职Mendored Mendored实验室经验。课程毕业生将准备通过Wistar的生物医学研究技术员学徒计划即时就业作为实验室技术人员或高级培训。该项目旨在参与生命科学研究中的多样性和代表性不足的学生人数，同时提供直接作为实验室技术就业的途径。该项目将满足使社区大学学生为受到熟练生物技术劳动力就业的大流行而受到不成比例影响的社区大学生的迫切需求。该计划还可以作为其他社区学院和科学研究伙伴的典范。该项目具有三个主要目标：1）扩展以招募更多的学生，包括来自新社区大学合作伙伴的学生，同时制定了使该项目成为信贷经验的发音协议； 2）开发一种基于项目的新型货币，可以更有效地吸引学生，尤其是来自代表性不足的学生的生物技术研究技能培训； 3）重新设计现有的两个夏季计划作为一个夏季体验，其中包括学术和行业实验室中的全职企业。该项目将使用Wistar的Interactive Truinee网站来维护数据，衡量学生成果，跟踪职业发展并提供网络机会。该项目还将比较Wistar现有的两个夏季计划的学生的参与和成果与新的单夏选项中的参与和成果。该项目计划绘制特定的技能和能力标准，以及传播培训模型和材料。可以预料，该项目可以提供蓝图，以将生物技术学家批准培训纳入社区大学的生物技术和科学课程中，同时是区域计划扩展的典范。该项目由高级技术教育计划提供资金，该计划的重点是推动国家经济的高级技术领域的技术教育。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估NSF的法定任务。