ATE Impacts 2020-2021

Montgomery County Community College Blue Bell, PA QNBC2 Bio'Chem Northeast Biomanufacturing Center and Collaborative http://biomanufacturing.org "I have used much of the NBC2 curriculum for my courses. This miniBIOMAN experience will help me improve the implementation of this curriculum. Thank you for all the help. This has made our biotech program at Blinn [College]." Michael Johanson, Research Engineering Associate IV National Center for Therapeutics Manufacturing Texas A&M University College Station, TX NBC2 Accomplishes Many Goals NBC2's Western Hub, MiraCosta College, graduated 22 students in the first cohort of its bachelor's in biomanufacturing program. Nineteen students (86%) were employed or had been offered biomanufacturing employment at graduation. Of the 79 two-year and four-year college faculty who attended NBC2 miniBIOMAN hands-on workshops from 2016 to 2019, 93% of the 77 survey respondents expressed an intention to implement all or some of the activities and techniques covered. Two curriculum modules-Quality in Biomanufacturing and Design of Experiments in Biomanufacturing-were created in 2019. The seven modules that NBC2 designed for faculty to incorporate readily into their courses are available in the Instructor's Portal on the center's website. NBC2's advanced biomanufacturing curriculum covers protein purification techniques.