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Description
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The area of research of the
Center for Biofilm Engineering (CBE) lies between the
conventional disciplines of microbiology and engineering.
The Center studies the accretion of bacterial biofilms on
surfaces of interest to many engineering disciplines
including civil, biomedical, and environmental. The CBE is
housed in the engineering building but consists of 21
faculty from 10 departments (5 from engineering) and 60
graduate students from 12 departments (6 from engineering).
NSF funding has enabled the CBE to develop an education
program in which all of the students from different
departments are housed in contiguous space and work on
interdisciplinary teams with strong industrial connections.
The Center's Ph.D. graduates are fully interdisciplinary, in
attitude as well as in training, and are therefore very
attractive to the CBE's industrial partners as potential
employees.
http://www.erc.montana.edu/
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