Component 3

Component 3:

Task 1: Provide a forecast of what the workforce demand would be over a five-year period to produce and market your team’s technical application or process. Include the impact such production would have on the marketplace.

If our idea were to be taken on by a company, the workforce demand would have to be relatively high. Our idea is basically vaccine that will repel the bad bacteria that grows in the mouth. Some of this bacteria includes: Treponema denticola, Porphyromonas gingivalis, Tannerella forsythensis, Porphyromonas endodontalis, Prevotella intermedia, and Eubacterium. This bacteria is known as “Gram-Negative Bacteria”; which is the primary bacteria that is associated with Halitosis. So the workforce necessary would have to be well over 150 staff members. Of the staff, many (Around 25%) would have to be people who have their P.H.D in Dental Sciences and/or Bacterial Research/Immunology. The rest of the staff would have to be able to package and sell to pharmaceutical companies as well as manage the inventory and keep producing. Our product would flood the market as a safe way to effectively cure bad breath. A problem may arise when people no longer have bad breath, they may not want to buy any other mouthwash products. However, in reality, people will still end up needing such products because they are vital in maintaining healthy dental hygiene.

Task 2: Give two examples of undergraduate or graduate degree programs in science or engineering that directly relate to your team's NCT technical application. For each program, be sure to include the following:

• The URL address of the institution,
• The department (for example, chemical engineering, electronic engineering) where the program is offered
• A brief description of the program of study.

1. Molecular Biology Major (Undergraduate) - Princeton University (https://molbio.princeton.edu/undergraduate/major)
2. Department of Molecular Biology - Princeton University
3. The introductory Cell and Molecular Biology courses, together with courses in chemistry, physics, and statistics, prepare students for three upper level core courses covering fundamentals of modern experimental biology – genetics, biochemistry, and cell and developmental biology – and an intensive project lab course. A diverse set of elective courses allow students to delve into more specialized topics like immunology, cancer biology, genomics, and drug discovery. Students with interdisciplinary interests can combine the Molecular Biology major with certificates such as biophysics, neuroscience, global health and health policy, and quantitative and computational biology.

1. Computational & Systems Immunology (Graduate) - Stanford University (http://med.stanford.edu/immunol/current-students/ComputationalSystemsImmunology.html)
2. Graduate Degree Program Track - Stanford University
3. The past decade has seen an explosion in the availability of high-throughput datasets spanning information on everything from DNA sequences to RNA transcript abundances, single-cell protein profiles, protein variants and metabolite profiles. These multi-dimensional omics data sets are complex to integrate, visualize and analyze for those not well versed in systems biology and bioinformatics. A new generation of scientists is needed to take advantage of these resources to ask and answer novel important questions in immunology. The CSI program will generate a class of hybrid scientists to identify important problems in immunology and to devise appropriate integrated computational/experimental plans for tackling them.

Task 3: Develop an idea for a new science and/or engineering degree program that might emerge given the advancements in scientific knowledge that the team has identified. Provide a title and 100-word description of this new degree program.

Maxillofacial Studies

This new degree program will provide basics into the study of the areas of the mouth, face, and rest of the skull. With that, a deeper study into the functions of the mouth and how halitosis forms can also be discovered. Although this is all theoretical, a program of study into the maxillofacial branch of science can be beneficial to the entire community of the college and the rest of science in general because it can catalyze other areas of investigations into the mysteries of the human body, mostly involving the area for the first step in digestion; the mouth.