Biotechnology Laboratory Instrumentation Improvement

这所大学的生物技术课程于1994年启动，是俄亥俄州唯一的两年制学位课程。生物技术专业为这一迅速发展的尖端技术领域的就业做好准备。除了密集的讲座/实验课程外，专业学生还被要求进行顶峰研究项目，并参加学院公认的合作项目。毕业生获得应用科学副学士学位，然后转到四年制学位课程。对于理科副学士(AS)转学计划中的非主修学生，生物技术课程完成了二年级的理科部分。该计划由一个由工业和研究实验室科学家组成的合作委员会提供建议。该项目通过使所有五门生物技术课程的学生能够广泛地使用真核系统(酵母和昆虫细胞)以及传统的原核系统，在生物技术的范围内改进本科教学。此外，该项目大大扩展了学生在原核和真核细胞的生长、维护和储存；离心法；柱层析(凝胶过滤、离子交换、亲和)和抗体-抗原相互作用(ELISA)方面的生物技术实验室经验。生物技术的改进每年可以影响到40个专业、50名辅修学生和250名健康科学专业的学生(微生物学和免疫学课程)。该项目还可以为11-12名年级学生(100名/年)和教师(50名/年)举办扫描电子显微镜管道讲习班，并为7-12名年级学生(160名/年)提高认识。

This college's Biotechnology Program, launched in 1994, is the only 2-year degree program in the state of Ohio. Biotechnology prepares majors for employment in this rapidly expanding leading-edge technology. In addition to intensive lecture/lab courses, majors are required to conduct a capstone research project and to participate in the college's nationally recognized co-op program. Graduates earn an Associate of Applied Science degree that transfers to 4-year degree programs. For nonmajors in the Associate of Science (AS) transfer program, the Biotechnology sequence fulfills the sophomore-level science component. The program is advised by a partnership committee of industry and research laboratory scientists. This project improves undergraduate instruction by enabling students in all five Biotechnology courses to work extensively with eukaryotic systems (yeast and insect cells), as well as with the traditional prokaryotic systems, across the range of biotechnology techniques. In addition, the project significantly expands student biotechnology lab experience with growth, maintenance, and storage of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells; centrifugation; column chromatography (gel filtration, ion-exchange, affinity); and antibody-antigen interactions (ELISA). The Biotechnology improvements can annually affect 40 majors, 50 A.S. students, and 250 Health Sciences students (Microbiology and Immunology courses). The project can also generate SEM pipeline workshops for 11-12 graders (100/year) and teachers (50/year) and awareness for 7-12 graders (160/year).