October 13, 2004

Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center Receives $1.2 Million Software License Gift

The College of Engineering at North Carolina State University has received a software license gift from Noverant Inc. — valued at $1.2 million — for the Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center (BTEC). Noverant, a Raleigh-based software and consulting company, develops software that helps to control and streamline the challenges of regulatory compliance for FDA-regulated industries.

The BTEC is a Golden LEAF-funded facility currently under construction on Centennial Campus. According to Dr. Peter K. Kilpatrick, head of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NC State and director of the BTEC, the Center will bring together faculty from the College of Engineering and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to research and teach methods of biotechnology implementation in manufacturing.

“Students from throughout the state’s universities and community colleges could come to the center for a variety of one- or two-week educational programs, for modules that could serve as course credits in their B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. curricula or for seminars as part of their science degrees,” Kilpatrick noted. “Workers in more remote parts of the state could receive extra training there through community college programs.”

The proposed 91,000 square-foot building is slated for completion by 2007.

For more information, see http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041008/laf055_1.html.

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