REU Site: From Bench to Market: Engineering Systems for High Efficiency Separations

REU 网站：从实验室到市场：高效分离工程系统

• 批准号: 2150436
• 负责人: Ranil Wickramasinghe
• 金额: $ 43.2万
• 依托单位: University of Arkansas
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-04-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2150436&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Bench; Market; Engineering

This three-year REU site at the University of Arkansas will provide students with opportunities to participate in innovative separations research. The cost of chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing is dominated by the cost of separation processes to obtain a pure product. In fact, it is estimated that up to 10-15% of the world energy budget and 90% of pharmaceutical manufacturing costs are due to separation processes. Separations processes that recover and purify compounds of interest from a mixture are essential for almost every aspect of modern society including drinking water, therapeutics, food, and beverages. Ten undergraduate students will be selected each year to spend ten weeks performing research in the laboratory of a successful faculty member. In addition, students will participate in a commercialization assessment training series that will prepare them to think about the potential commercialization of traditional hypothesis-driven research. Students will leave the REU program with an understanding of how academic research and commercialization work together to solve society’s grand challenges. The cost of chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing is dominated by the cost of separation processes to obtain a pure product. In fact, it is estimated that up to 10-15% of the world energy budget and 90% of pharmaceutical manufacturing costs are due to separation processes. The overall objective of this REU site at the University of Arkansas is to teach a diverse group of undergraduate students how to create and execute research involving separations, while simultaneously becoming aware of the skills needed to assess the commercial potential of their projects. They will be led through a custom designed commercialization series based on the NSF I-Corps Lean Canvas methodology. Students will work in successful laboratories across multiple departments including chemical engineering, civil engineering, biomedical engineering, and chemistry & biochemistry, The MAST Center provides the unique opportunity for the REU participants to interact with industry leaders in the separation field through industrial mentorships, plant tours, and live-streamed presentations at the close of the REU program. Students will leave the REU program with an understanding of how academic research and commercialization work in tandem to solve humanities grand challenges.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.

这个为期三年的REU网站在阿肯色州的大学将为学生提供机会，参与创新的分离研究。化学品和药物制造的成本主要由获得纯产品的分离过程的成本决定。事实上，据估计，高达10-15%的世界能源预算和90%的制药成本来自分离工艺。从混合物中回收和纯化感兴趣的化合物的分离过程对于现代社会的几乎每个方面都是必不可少的，包括饮用水，治疗，食品和饮料。每年将选出10名本科生，在一位成功的教师的实验室里进行为期10周的研究。此外，学生将参加商业化评估培训系列，这将使他们准备思考传统假设驱动研究的潜在商业化。学生将离开REU计划，了解学术研究和商业化如何共同解决社会的重大挑战。 化学品和药物制造的成本主要由获得纯产品的分离过程的成本决定。事实上，据估计，高达10-15%的世界能源预算和90%的制药成本是由于分离过程。这个REU网站在阿肯色州的大学的总体目标是教本科生如何创建和执行涉及分离的研究，同时意识到所需的技能，以评估他们的项目的商业潜力的不同群体。他们将通过基于NSF I-Corps Lean Canvas方法的定制设计的商业化系列进行指导。学生将在多个部门的成功实验室工作，包括化学工程，土木工程，生物医学工程和化学生物化学，MAST中心为REU参与者提供了独特的机会，通过工业导师，工厂图尔斯和现场直播演示在REU计划结束时与分离领域的行业领导者互动。学生将离开REU计划的学术研究和商业化如何协同工作，以解决人文的重大挑战的理解。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。