Preparing STEM Technicians for Bioscience Data Acquisition and Analysis

培养 STEM 技术人员进行生物科学数据采集和分析

• 批准号: 2301294
• 负责人: Candy Mintz
• 金额: $ 35万
• 依托单位: Merritt College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2026-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2301294&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Preparing; STEM; Technicians; Bioscience; Data

Addressing global challenges in health, climate, energy, and agriculture requires a highly skilled STEM workforce that is knowledge-based and science-driven. Benchtop multimode plate readers, digital imagers, and RNA/DNA sequencers, generate enormous amounts of data requiring employees to be data literate. Life Science employers are looking for employees who have expertise in lab bench skills and in computing, data analysis, and bioinformatics. The goal of this project at Merritt College is to develop a Bioscience data analysis certificate program that will prepare students to perform data analysis in applied bioscience research. The program will train STEM students to design, set up and execute experiments; operate and collect data from automated equipment; and conduct data analysis of large data sets. This project will help fill the Bioscience, Biotechnology and Life Science pipelines with well-trained individuals with both experimental and data analysis skills that are in high demand by industry.This project will educate STEM technicians to design bioanalytical, sequencing, and imaging assays on High Throughput and High Content equipment. Students will collect, clean, and organize the resulting large data sets and conduct data analysis utilizing biostatistics, Excel, Tableau, and the programming languages R and Python. Three specific aims will guide the work of the project. First is to develop a new Bioscience program with three integrated courses leading to a Certificate of Achievement. Second is to design and implement physical and digital infrastructure to support the program. Third, and finally, is to put in place a sustainable recruitment and retention plan to fill each new cohort of students, with an emphasis on increasing the number of underrepresented minorities enrolling and completing the Bioscience Data Acquisition and Analysis Technician Certificate of Achievement program. The results of this work will be disseminated locally, regionally, and nationally through websites, social media, industry advisory meetings, and conferences. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced technology fields that drive the nation's economy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

应对健康、气候、能源和农业方面的全球挑战需要一支以知识为基础、以科学为驱动的高技能 STEM 劳动力队伍。台式多模式读板机、数字成像仪和 RNA/DNA 测序仪会生成大量数据，要求员工具备数据素养。生命科学雇主正在寻找具有实验室工作台技能以及计算、数据分析和生物信息学专业知识的员工。梅里特学院该项目的目标是开发生物科学数据分析证书课程，帮助学生做好在应用生物科学研究中进行数据分析的准备。该项目将培训 STEM 学生设计、设置和执行实验；操作自动化设备并收集数据；并对大数据集进行数据分析。该项目将有助于为生物科学、生物技术和生命科学领域培养训练有素、具备行业急需的实验和数据分析技能的人员。该项目将教育 STEM 技术人员在高水平上设计生物分析、测序和成像分析。吞吐量和高内涵设备。学生将收集、清理和组织由此产生的大型数据集，并利用生物统计学、Excel、Tableau 以及编程语言 R 和 Python 进行数据分析。三个具体目标将指导该项目的工作。首先是开发一个新的生物科学项目，其中包括三门综合课程，以获得成就证书。其次是设计和实施物理和数字基础设施来支持该计划。第三，也是最后一点，是制定可持续的招聘和保留计划，以填补每一批新学生的空缺，重点是增加入学和完成生物科学数据采集和分析技术员成就证书计划的少数族裔人数。这项工作的结果将通过网站、社交媒体、行业咨询会议和大会在当地、区域和全国范围内传播。该项目由先进技术教育计划资助，该计划重点关注推动国家经济发展的先进技术领域的技术人员教育。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过利用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的评估进行评估，认为值得支持。影响审查标准。