Skip to content
Curtin University
Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

310752 (v.1) ChE 420 Biosystems Engineering

Note

Tuition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.

Area: Department of Chemical Engineering
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
Lecture: 2 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 310751 (v.2) Biochemical Engineering 320 or any previous version
AND
313764 (v.1) Bioprocess Engineering Fundamentals 300 or any previous version
Syllabus: An overview of biosystem engineering areas and applications followed by the introduction to the following four themes: 1) the biomedical systems that include biomedical engineering, tissue engineering, biopharmaceutics, as well as gene therapy; 2) the biomass and green fuels; 3) Biomineralisation and bioleaching; as well as 4) the application of computational modelling and optimisation in these fields, focusing on the studies that emphasise the interface between engineering and biology. Includes key design methods, analytical tools, novel technology, environmental impacts, and regulatory and societal issues.
Field of Education: 030301 Chemical Engineering
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External