Targeted Infusion Project: Development of Bioengineering Concentration in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Prairie View A&M University

普莱里维尤农工大学将改革其化学工程专业，在系内设立生物工程专业。通过这个项目，该系设想了本科教育和研究的三个一般领域：(1)生物过程；(2)生物分离；(3)生物医学工程。生物工程专业的首要任务是提供一个智力严谨的本科教育课程，强调基础工程和生命科学，并为学生在生物工程领域继续深造或在与各种生物工程产业相关的企业中成功就业做好准备。该项目的智力优势源于它对当前全国关注的回应，以及美国生物工程领域的出现和发展。Prairie View A&A；M已将自己定位为做出回应。该项目将受益于最近在化学工程系招聘的人员，与两个NSF教育研究中心的合作，以及与堪萨斯大学、伊桑大学和圣路易斯华盛顿大学建立环境有益催化剂中心的合作。在其130年的历史中，草原景观农工大学一直走在非洲裔美国工程师毕业的前列。这是HBCU认可的11个工程项目之一，通过这个项目，它将成为第二个提供生物专业化学工程学位选项的项目。这个项目将对工程界产生广泛的影响，因为在Prairie View A&M，95%的工程学学生是非裔美国人，59%是女性。

Prairie View A&M University will transform its chemical engineering program by establishing a bioengineering concentration within the department. Through this project, the department envisions three general areas of undergraduate education and research: (1) Bioprocess; (2) Bioseparations and (3) Biomedical Engineering. The overarching mission of the bioengineering concentration is to provide an intellectually rigorous undergraduate educational program that emphasizes fundamental engineering and life sciences and that will prepare students to pursue further education in bioengineering or successful careers in businesses related to various bioengineering industries.The intellectual merit of this project stems from its response to a current national focus and the emergence and growth of the field of bioengineering across the United States. Prairie View A&M has positioned itself to respond. The project will benefit from recent hires in the department of chemical engineering, from partnership with two NSF Educational Research Centers, and partnership with University of Kansas, the University of Iosan and Washington University in St. Louis in a Center for the Environmental Beneficial Catalysis.Prairie View A&M University, during its 130 year history, has been at the forefront of graduating African American engineers. It is one of eleven accredited engineering programs at an HBCU, and, through this project, will become only the second to offer an option of a chemical engineering degree with a biology focus. This project will broadly impact the engineering community, as 95% of the engineering students at Prairie View A&M are African American and 59% are women.