BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING LAB COURSE: PREPARING UNDERGRADUATES FOR THE BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY

摘要

As the biotechnology industry continues to grow rapidly, there is a need for chemical engineering graduates who are familiar with modern process equipment and scale-up procedures. A laboratory component to biochemical engineering lecture classes offers chemical engineering students a hands-on environment to apply theory and gain practical experience with biotechnological process equipment which will prepare them as excellent candidates for industry positions. We describe a course newly developed in the Spring 2018 semester to address the ndustrial need for graduates with practical bioprocessing experience.