Monday, November 4, 2013: 1:45 PM
Islands Ballroom F-J (Marriott Marco Island)
The 82,000 sq. ft. NC State Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center (BTEC) is a unique industry-academic partnership training over 900 undergraduate, graduates and working professionals each year using 8 week and full semester laboratory courses. Undergraduates earn a minor; graduate students can earn a MS in biomanufacturing, a non-thesis masters, minor or certificates. The BIOM graduate program is a Professional Science Masters combining BTEC courses, an industry internship, professional skills training, and industry case studies courses with MBA coursework. All aspects of biomanufacturing are taught in two tracks. The upstream track includes molecular biology, cell line engineering, industrial microbiology, fermentation (2 L, 30 L, 300 L scale) for microbial, yeast, insect and mammalian platforms and cell culture techniques using single-use bioreactors. The downstream track includes introduction to bioseparations, recovery, cell disruption, protein purification, membrane filtration, and large scale protein chromatography using industry-standard equipment. cGMP operations courses are taught in a gown-in simulated cGMP facility. Electives include global regulatory affairs (drugs, devices, biologics), protein formulation, bionanotechnology, tissue engineering, biopharmaceutical characterization as well as advanced biomanufacturing and biocatalysis. BTEC has an industry-experienced support staff, career development councilors, process development professionals for contract work, and teaching faculty (non-tenure track). NC State tenure-track faculty and industry subject matter experts also teach. Many graduate courses are taught in the evenings for working professionals. Professional development courses are short intensive versions of academic courses and are often customized for specific clients. BTEC also houses the NC Community College programs which teach aseptic processing and process validation.