The Northeast Biomanufacturing Center and Collaborative: Building Local Community College-Biomanufacturer Partnerships to Provide A Sustainable Infrastructure for Biomanufacturing

生物制造企业正在全国各地建设和扩张。由此产生的商业生物制造设施雇用400至600名员工，其中至少50%是10个生物制造岗位的技术人员；据报道，该行业每年的流失率为10%至15%。社区大学-生物制造商的合作伙伴关系创造了稳定的、本地的入门级和替代技术人员供应，以及一条从高中开始、继续到社区大学、然后到大学的清晰的职业道路，其中有学徒、实习和就业的机会。这种伙伴关系还可以为邻近社区大学的生物制造商提供在职技术人员培训，以维持生物制造商和生物制造项目的发展。最后，使用相同技能的相关交叉行业在过去几年中得到了发展，包括生物燃料、替代器官和干细胞的生物制造。社区大学-生物制造商合作伙伴关系为当地的生物经济提供支持。三年来，NBC2一直致力于在东北地区的六个中心发展当地生物制造教育和培训以及劳动力基础设施。该中心根据全球生物制药制造行业技能标准，为10个生物制造岗位开发了动手教学材料。它开发了一年一度的生物制造会议BIOMAN，供教职员工和教师参加。有一个网站（www.biomanufacturing.org）用于发布活动和产品。该中心指导东北和全国的社区学院、高中和大学建立生物制造项目和课程。它与生物制造商的关系可以维持已经建立的生物制造项目。在NBC2的更新中，该中心通过创建动手实验室手册、行业编写的教科书、在职技术人员的短期课程和教学辅助工具，将10种生物制造工作的课程和教学材料提升到一个新的水平。它继续扩展网站，增加了一个职业网站，并继续提供BIOMAN会议。该公司与Bio-Rad合作，通过“生物制造导论”教师工作坊，将重点放在高中生身上，并通过NBC2的国家生物制造研究所（NBI）提供的短期课程，对在职技术人员进行培训，积极建设当地生物制造基础设施。该中心正在扩大合作伙伴关系，包括全国南部、中西部和西部的生物制药制造商和社区学院，由具有生物制药生物制造专业知识的社区学院教师指导，从而带来新的资源。通过与教育发展学院国家工作和学习研究所的伙伴关系，它正在收集就业数据，以显示这些活动的影响。智力价值：这包括：1)当地学习社区的发展，以支持生物制药制造公司对生物制造技术人员的需求，以及学生对从高中到社区学院再到大学的生物制造教育途径的需求；2)一个基于统一的生物制药制造行业技能标准的全球生物制造课程存储库，可以存入或取出，并与Bio-Link信息交换中心相连；3)利用视频、第二人生和游戏技术，让学生更好地了解大规模生物制造；4)利用生物制药制造技术，支持本地跨界产业的发展，例如替代器官、生物燃料和干细胞的生物制造；5)生物制造项目的扩展数据，这些项目的学生数量以及生物经济中就业机会的增长。更广泛的影响：这包括：1)建立强大的生物制造商与社区大学的合作伙伴关系，为社区大学项目提供可持续性，并为生物制造商提供当地的员工渠道；2)重视高中生物制造课程和项目，发展本地生物制造管道；3)利用新技术突出大规模和实验室规模生物制造之间的差异；4)对学生进行21世纪先进技术学徒和实习的在职培训；5)为生物制造教育和培训建立一个自我维持的基础设施，以及支持不断增长的生物经济的生物制造劳动力。

Biomanufacturers are building and expanding throughout the nation. The resulting commercial biomanufacturing facilities hire between 400 and 600 employees, at least fifty percent of whom are technicians in ten biomanufacturing jobs; the industry reports a ten to fifteen percent attrition rate per year. Community college-biomanufacturer partnerships create a stable, local supply of entry level and replacement technicians and an articulated career pathway that begins in high school, continues to community college and then to university, with opportunities for apprenticeships, internships and employment. The partnership can also provide for incumbent technician training for the biomanufacturer at the neighboring community college that can sustain both the biomanufacturer and the biomanufacturing program. Finally, related crossover industries that use the same skill set have developed in the last few years including the biomanufacture of biofuels, replacement organs, and stem cells. Working together, community college-biomanufacturer partnerships provide support for a local bioeconomy. The NBC2 has been working for over three years to develop the local biomanufacturing education and training and workforce infrastructure in six Hubs throughout the northeast. The center has developed hands-on instructional materials for the ten biomanufacturing jobs based on global biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry skill standards. It has developed BIOMAN, an annual biomanufacturing conference for faculty and teacher participants. There is a website at www.biomanufacturing.org for dissemination of activities and products. The center has mentored the establishment of biomanufacturing programs and courses at community colleges, high schools and universities in the northeast and nation. Its relationships with biomanufacturers can sustain the biomanufacturing programs that have been built. In this renewal of the NBC2, the center is taking curriculum and instructional materials for the ten biomanufacturing jobs to the next level, by creating a hands-on laboratory manual, an industry-written textbook, short courses for incumbent technicians, and instructional ancillaries. It continues to expand the website, adding a career website, and continues to offer the BIOMAN conference. It is aggressively building local biomanufacturing infrastructure by focusing on high school students through Introduction to Biomanufacturing teachers' workshops in a partnership with Bio-Rad, and incumbent technician training through short courses offered by the NBC2's National Biomanufacturing Institute (NBI). The center is bringing in new resources by expanding partnerships to include biomanufacturers and community colleges throughout the nation in southern, mid-western and western clusters directed by community college faculty with expertise in biopharmaceutical biomanufacturing. Through a partnership with the National Institute for Work and Learning of the Academy for Educational Development it is collecting employment data to show the influence of the activities.Intellectual merit: This includes: 1) the development of local learning communities to support the biopharmaceutical manufacturing company's need for biomanufacturing technicians and the student's need for a biomanufacturing educational pathway from high school to community college to universities; 2) a Global Biomanufacturing Curriculum repository based on harmonized biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry skill standards ready for deposit or withdrawal and linked to the Bio-Link Clearinghouse; 3) the use of video, 2nd Life, and gaming technologies to give students a better understanding of large-scale biomanufacturing; 4) the use of skills in biopharmaceutical manufacturing to support the development of local crossover industries such as the biomanufacture of replacement organs, biofuels and stem cells; 5) data on the expansion of biomanufacturing programs, the number of students in these programs and the growth of jobs within the bio-based economy. Broader impact: This includes: 1) creation of strong biomanufacturer-community college partnerships to provide sustainability for the community college program and a local pipeline of employees for the biomanufacturer; 2) emphasis on high school biomanufacturing courses and programs to develop the local pipeline for biomanufacturing; 3) use of new technologies to highlight the differences between large-scale and lab-scale biomanufacturing; 4) on-the-job training for students in 21st century advanced technology apprenticeships and internships; and 5) the creation of a self-sustaining infrastructure for biomanufacturing education and training and the biomanufacturing workforce that supports a growing bioeconomy.