COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TISSUE ENGINEERING AND NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BIK 0636 TISSUE ENGINEERING AND NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR SINAN AKGÖL

Offered to

Industrial Ph.D. Program In Advanced Biomedical Technologies

Course Objective

This lesson aims to teach basic consepts regarding tissue engineering, transportation and release of growth factors via nanoparticles, transportations of genes via nanoparticles, bionanosurface technology and production of tissue layers.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Learning about and applying basic concepts.
2   Catching up with advances in tissue engineering and evaluating them.
3   Designing alternative nanoparticles for tissue engineering.
4   Analyzing and comparing/contrasting the advantages and disadvantages of methods used in tissue engineering.
5   Understanding and evaluating research findings in the concerned area and presenting them.
6   Following contemporary findings/results.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction. Basic concepts of tissue engineering.
2 Fabrications and applications of tissue scaffolds.
3 Production of tissue scaffolds by using macro/micro fabrication techniques.
4 Tissue scaffolds with nanofabrication. Stop bleeding peptide gels.
5 Carbon nanotubes. Carbon nanotubes and tissue engineering. Tissue engineering applications in Present and future.
6 Nanoparticles in tissue engineering. transport and release of growth factors with nanoparticles.
7 Gene transport with nanoparticles. Production of tissue layers with Bionanosurface technolog
8 Midterm
9 Electrospinning and nanofibres
10 Preparation of tissue scaffold with nanofibres.
11 Nanolithographic techniques and nanopatterning.
12 Photolithography. Nanolithography. Electron beam lithography.
13 Dip pen lithography. Plasma nanolithography. Polymer mixture.
14 Homework presentation

Recomended or Required Reading

Rui L Reis, Daniel Cohn, Polymer Based Systems on Tissue Engineering, Replacement and Regeneration , Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 86, 2002. Oded Shoseyov (Author, Editor), Ilan Levy (Editor), NanoBioTechnology: BioInspired Devices and Materials of the Future , Humana Press, 2008, USA.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Midterm %35
Assigment %25
Final %40

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE *0.35 + ASG *0.25 +FIN *0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE *0.35 + ASG *0.25 +RST *0.40

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

to be announced.

Assessment Criteria

to be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

to be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sinan AKGÖL

Office Hours

to be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparation for midterm exam 2 15 30
Preparing assignments 14 8 112
Design Project 2 2 4
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 212

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.1333
LO.25
LO.344
LO.4332
LO.552
LO.65

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