A 21st Century Revitalized Research and Research Training Infrastructure for Chemical and Biological Engineering

该奖项由2009年《美国复苏与再投资法案》(公法111-5)资助。该奖项支持爱荷华州立大学(ISU)化学与生物工程(CBE)系7695平方英尺湿实验室的翻新，用于开展生物材料和工艺(BioMaP)研究。BioMaP研究设施位于一栋建于1964年的校园大楼内，该大楼的设计不能满足近年来CBE不断增加的BioMaP研究的数量和复杂性；该设施中的20个独立实验室的柜台空间非常有限，化学通风柜陈旧、能源效率低下，有些还无法使用。该项目将在研究设施的屋顶上安装两个烟雾式通风柜排气扇，以便以安全和节能的方式运行，(B)电气升级，(C)去离子(DI)水系统，向整个设施提供DI水，(D)额外的柜子/柜台空间和新的化学通风柜/生物安全柜，以及(E)用于高速高带宽计算机连接的光纤线路，用于高性能计算研究。智力优势：ISU的BioMaP研究正在可持续生物可再生能源以及化学品方面取得新的突破，这对于减少对石化产品的依赖至关重要。BioMaP的研究领域包括聚合物生物材料、细胞动力学、催化/生物催化、纳米技术和计算材料/生物学。升级研究基础设施将实现协作、跨学科的BioMaP研究，影响正在进行和未来研究的生产率，并为教职员工和学生创造下一代研究空间。它还将使更多的学生和多样化的学生群体在这些前沿领域进行研究性培训，为他们未来国家的关键需求做好准备。广泛的影响：翻修将显著影响14名教职员工、60名研究生、70名本科生和12名博士后研究人员。此外，翻修将增强学生的多样性，因为BioMaP的教职员工正在领导两个由NSF资助的使用该设施的REU项目，参与了几个积极促进学生多样性的项目，并在NSF支持的专注于生物可再生能源化学品的工程研究中心(CBiRC)工作。翻新后的设施的另一个重大好处是通风柜的能源使用量将减少40%，从而使设施更可持续发展。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award supports the renovation of 7,695 square feet of wet laboratories for the conduct of research on Biological Materials and Processes (BioMaP) in the Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) department at Iowa State University (ISU). The BioMaP research facility is located in a campus building built in 1964, which was not designed to accommodate the increasing amount and complexity of BioMaP research in CBE in recent years; the twenty individual laboratories in the facility have very limited counter space, and the chemical fume hoods are old, energy inefficient, and some unusable. This project will install (a) two plume style fume hood exhaust fans on the roof of the research facility for fume hoods in this facility to operate in a safe and energy-efficient manner, (b) electrical upgrades, (c) a deionized (DI) water system to provide DI water to the entire facility, (d) additional cabinet/counter space and new chemical fume hoods/biological safety cabinets, and (e) fiber optic lines for high speed high bandwidth computer connectivity for high performance computing research.Intellectual Merit: The BioMaP research at ISU is leading to new breakthroughs in sustainable biorenewable sources of energy, as well as chemicals, that is vital to reducing dependence on petrochemical products. BioMaP research areas include polymeric biomaterials, cellular dynamics, catalysis/biocatalysis, nanotechnology, and computational materials/biology. Upgrading the research infrastructure will enable collaborative, interdisciplinary BioMaP research, impact productivity of ongoing and future research, and create the next-generation research space for faculty and students. It will also enable research training of a larger number of students and a diverse student body in these cutting edge areas to prepare them for the future critical needs of the nation.Broader Impacts: The renovations will significantly impact fourteen faculty, sixty graduate students, seventy undergraduate students, and twelve postdoctoral researchers. Additionally, the renovations will enhance the diversity of the students since the BioMaP faculty are leading two NSF-funded REU programs that use the facility, are involved in several programs to aggressively promote student diversity, and work in the NSF-supported Engineering Research Center focused on Chemicals from Biorenewables (CBiRC). Another significant benefit of the renovated facility will be a 40 percent reduction in energy usage for fume hoods, leading to a more sustainable facility.