Conference Session

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE) Technical Session

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Cody Prince, East Tennessee State University; PAMELA J. MIMS, East Tennessee State University; Aruna Kilaru, East Tennessee State University; Lindsay Lee, Michigan State University

Tagged Divisions

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division (BAE)

our ongoing project to foster workforce development inbioengineering and biomanufacturing. In this update, we will discuss the research and evaluationstrategy to assess the effectiveness of our training regime. This phase focuses on a hybridtraining approach which allows students to establish knowledge competency asynchronouslywhile developing practical industry-aligned skills in a series of short lab modules. We present astrategy of pre- and post-testing and industry assessment of participant competency.Additionally, we present this Work In Progress (WIP) to solicit critique of the proposed plan ofstrategy. We see this development as addressing the critical need for a more distributed andresilient bioeconomy. WIP: Biomanufacturing in