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Engineering biochemistry covering enzyme kinetics, metabolism and applied molecular biology.
Students should be conversant in the language of biology and biochemistry, and understand the how to grow and manipulate biological systems to produce useful commercial materials or consume chemical wastes.Topics covered include biochemical engineering; bacterial, plant and animal cell culturing; enzymes, metabolism and metabolic engineering (ME); genetic engineering (GE), GE Medical and industrial applications, molecular biology for bioprocessing; industrial microbiology, bioproducts, and bioreactors.
After completing this course, students will understand 'upstream' bioprocess engineering issues and applications. Students are expected to be able to: Understand the language of biology and biochemistry.Understand different tools that can be used to grow, regulate, manipulate and scale-up biological fermentations.Understand different bioreactor configurations and their operation.Understand microbial growth and enzyme kinetics. Understand the importance of upstream bioprocess engineering to the production of different bioproducts and industrial applications.
ENCH281 or subject to approval of the Director of Studies
36 lectures, 2 assignments, a lab report (based on all lab activities), mid-term test and end of semester examination. Assessment completion and special consideration: Students should submit the assignments on required dates and time. Any delays without approval by the lecturer(s) will incur a penalty with exact mark reduction depending on the days of delay.
Carlo Carere
Rachael Wood
The materials to be taught will be selected from a number of references including recently published books and journal papers, and these references will be provided at the lectures.
Domestic fee $1,164.00
International fee $5,750.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Chemical and Process Engineering .