307548 (v.2) Engineering in the Biotech Century 100

Area:	School of Engineering
Credits:	12.5
Contact Hours:	3.0
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.
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	An overview of biotechnologies and their role in modern economic development, structure of cells and life, bacteria and virus, DNA and RNA, genetic engineering, mutation, yeasts, life and environment, effect of environmental and processing conditions on behaviour of organisms, bio-reactors and control, process design and scaling, fermentation, aerobic and anaerobic digestions, wastewater treatment and contaminated soil remediation, pharmaceutical manufacturing, bio-processing and economy, bio-processing and ecology, biological contamination and biological weapons, ethics in bio-tech, bio-safety and bio-security.
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Field of Education:	010501 Organic Chemistry
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Supplemental *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type:	Grade/Mark

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