AWIS, Austin 2015 Sulatha Dwarakanath Ph.D Director, C 3 BC program Austin Community College

1. Workforce Readiness for Bioscience Emerging Technologies AWIS, Austin 2015 Sulatha Dwarakanath Ph.D Director, C3BC program Austin Community College

2. ACC Past and Future • Dr. Linnea Fletcher started a program that included training for 2 and 4 year students and dual credit for high school students with help of Bio-Link • Extended 3 year ATE grant to 5 years • Led to to a full Biotech program • As a result, we have received state funding for the following: • Training and certificate of all high school Advanced Biotechnology teachers in Texas • Establishing the Biotech Mentoring Network Submitted a Regional ATE Bio-Link Grant this October for Texas and Kentucky • Received $4.9 million Emerging Technology Fund (ETF) grant to establish a Contract Service Organization in cGMP Biomanufacturing and Advanced Manufacturing at the ACC Mall (with a depot) • Received $650K/year (renewable) Wagner Payser grant for training

3. What are the Emerging technologies? • Medical Devices • Innovative Biomanufacturing • Therapeutics • Natural Therapeutics • Regenerative Medicine • Many More………………

4. How does ACC Keep up?? • New Emerging Fields and Course Development • Grants (federal and State) • Advisory Board made up of local industry experts • Work with area companies • Internship • CRO • Now incubator • Open our equipment to the industry free of charge • Hire professors who are working in the industry • Part of national networks such a Bio-Link, NBC2, C3BC • Work with TSSB to setup skill standards

5. Are We Ready? • Skills assessment Eg. Medical Device company

6. Skill set required Biology/Biotechnology Chemist Biophysicist/Biochemist Instrumentation/System Engineer Software Engineer QA/QC Clinical Trials Expert

7. Job Duties • Biology/Biotechnology: • DNA isolation/manipulation/Recombinant DNA Technology/Search NCBI Databases • Microbiology preparation • Immuno assays (ELISA) • Chemist: • Inorganic Chemistry (preparative)/purification • Chromatography • Biophysicist/Biochemist/Material Science: • Knowledge of SEM/TEM • Membrane technology

8. Job Duties • Instrumentation/System Engineer • Software Engineer • QA/QC Expert • Clinical Trials Expert • FDA regulations • Analysis using Excel or other software (biostatistics) • Good presentation Skills

9. Ancilliary Biotech Jobs Business development Marketing Sales PR

10. Skill Standards • Our program adopted the Texas skill standards for biotechnology • Critical Functions, Key Activities, Performance Indicators What are the critical functions of a employee? What are the activities they must perform for that function? To what level to they have to perform each activity? ACC has been awarded a Perkins Grant to develop statewide Biomanufacturing Skill Standards

11. Skill Standards Elements • 3 “Work-Oriented” Elements: • Critical Work Functions - broad areas of responsibility (10-12) • Key Activities – major tasks required to achieve Critical Work Function (3-6) • Performance Criteria – standard or proficiency level to which Key Activity must be performed

12. Possible Example in Biomanufacturing • Critical Work Function • Control growth system for designated organism and product • Key Activity • Monitor and regulate bioreactor controls • Performance Criteria • Process variables meet product & equipment parameters

13. Elements in Skill Standards • 7th Element: • Statement of Assessment – how to evaluate skill competency of person, as recommended by industry

14. Resources: Bio-Link & NBC2 • Two National Science Foundation (NSF) funded Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Center Grants with a focus on biotechnology and biomanufacturing • Bio-Link networks with over 120 two-year programs across the nation, the students and alumni they serve, and the industry they serve • NBC2 networks all biomanufacturing programs, students, alumni, and industry

15. Bio-Link, NSF funded ATE Center (www.bio-link.org)

16. www.biomanufacturing.org