Teaching

BCHE3180 Biochemical Engineering Laboratory III (2 credit hours):

This senior-level laboratory teaches students engineering principles of thermodynamics and heat, mass, and energy systems through experiential learning. Students in this course work in teams to work on problems in engineering systems involving heat transfer, mass transfer and thermodynamics. During the course, students develop skills modeling and analyzing such systems; learn design of experiments and interpretation of results; and enhance their skills at technical report writing and presentation. It is a required course for the BioChemical Engineering degree program.

BCHE4360 Biochemical Process Control (3 credit hours):

This senior-level course teaches students theories and knowledge of chemical and biochemical process control systems focusing on dynamic behavior of processes, feedback control, and applications to biological systems. During the course, students are able to apply math, science, and engineering to formulate mathematical descriptions of chemical and biochemical processes; understand controllers for process operations; design and conduct control experiments and analyze the dynamic response results; and acknowledge applications of process control in biological systems. It is a required course for the BioChemical Engineering degree program.

BCHE4655/6655 Metabolic Engineering & Synthetic Biology (3 credit hours):

This upper level course teaches students theories and applications of cellular metabolism, genetic engineering, protein engineering, and metabolic engineering through both classroom and laboratory instruction. During the course, students gain both fundamental and updated knowledge of metabolic engineering and synthetic biology in classroom; and learn the basic experimental skills of molecular biology, biochemical engineering, and chemical analysis in laboratory by conducing hands-on projects. Graduate students are trained to develop their ideas into research proposals. It is an elective course for the BioChemical Engineering degree program.

BCHE8220 Advanced Metabolic Engineering & Synthetic Biology (3 credit hours):

This graduate course teaches the advanced concepts and techniques of metabolic engineering and synthetic biology that enable the fast development of microbial cell factories. During the course, students are exposed to the advanced concepts of metabolic engineering and synthetic biology; students gain deep understanding of the mechanisms and implementation of cutting-edge metabolic engineering and synthetic biology techniques; students are capable of applying the advanced concepts and techniques of metabolic engineering and synthetic biology or developing new ones to address a broad range of current topics in biological, biochemical, biomedical related Engineering disciplines. The course provides interdisciplinary training to the students from both biological sciences and engineering. It is an elective course for the BioChemical Engineering degree program.

FYOS1001 Microbial Cell Factories for Green Manufacturing (1 credit hour):

This is a First Year Odyssey course for freshman, which introduces the concepts of cellular metabolism and engineering cellular metabolism for green manufacturing.