Acquisition of Equipment for Development of a Bioprocess Engineering Laboratory

工程-化学（53）该项目正在改造和实施一个生物过程工程实验室（BEL），该实验室有助于整合理工科学生的教育，并为他们提供受雇于生物技术行业所需的专业知识。该课程改编自加州大学戴维斯分校（NSF i- lld）由Karen McDonald博士开发的课程，并对课程的实验室和多学科团队发展部分进行了修改。具体而言，制药和其他生物技术行业所使用的工艺技术的最新发展被添加到实验课程中，并且正在开发微生物生理学，生物信息学和生化工程的额外课程，以提高理工科学生之间的界面技能。该项目的目标是：利用工业界的参与来开发BEL的实验组件；促进在五门课程中利用工程/科学学生团队；开展10项生物工艺工程实验（两门实验课程）；为生化工程、生物化学和微生物学课程开发5个演示；评估BEL在达到既定目标方面的有效性。

Engineering - Chemical (53) This project is adapting and implementing a Bioprocess Engineering Laboratory (BEL) which is helping to integrate the education of science and engineering students and provide them with the expertise necessary to be hired by the biotechnology industry. The curriculum is an adaptation of that developed at the University of California at Davis (NSF ILI-LLD) by Dr. Karen McDonald, with modifications to both the laboratory and multi-disciplinary team development components of the curriculum. Specifically, the latest developments in process technology utilized by pharmaceutical and other biotechnology industries are being added to the laboratory course, and additional courses in Microbial Physiology, Bioinformatics and Biochemical Engineering are being developed to enhance the interface skills between science and engineering students. The objectives of the project are to: utilize industry participation to develop the experimental components of the BEL; facilitate the utilization of engineering/scientist student teams in five courses; develop ten bioprocess engineering experiments (for the two laboratory courses); develop five demonstrations for biochemical engineering, biochemistry and microbiology courses; assess the effectiveness of the BEL in meeting the stated goal.