COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BYT 5004 INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR LEMAN TARHAN

Offered to

Ph.D. in Biotechnology
BIOTECHNOLOGY

Course Objective

The basic principles of industrial biotechnology, microbial applications, enzyme technology, bio fuel production, single cell protein, medicine, environment, agro-forestry, food industries, applications, security and ethical issues in biotechnology will be discussed.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Awake of basic principles of industrial biotechnology,
2   Awake of basic principles of microbial applications and discuss,
3   Have knowledge about enzyme technology, biologic fuel production and discuss,
4   Have knowledge about applications of industrial biotechnology in the areas of environment, agriculture, forestry, food and discuss,
5   Have knowledge about protection of biotechnological discoveries, biosafety and ethic and produce an idea.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General Overview to the Industrial Biotechnology
2 Microorganisms in Industrial Biotechnology
3 Microbial Growth and Bioproduct Kinetics
4 Enzyme Technology
5 Biological Fuel Generation
6 Single Cell Protein
7 Biotechnology and Medicine
8 Midterm Exam
9 Environmental Biotechnology
10 Biotechnology in the Agricultural and Forestry Industry
11 Food and Beverage Industry
12 Protection of Biotechnological Inventions, Safety in Biotechnology
13 Genetic Engineering-Biotechnology in terms of Safety, Social, Moral and Ethic
14 Homework and Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook: Shastri, V., Industrial Biotechnology, Gyan Publishing House, 2006.
Supplementary Book: Malik, V. S., Padma Sridhar, M. C. & Sharma, H. P., Industrial Biotechnology, Science Publishers, 1992.
Greenshields, R. N., Applications of Industrial Biotechnology, Stockton Press, 1987.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Presentation
2. Question-answer technique
3. Homework

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Meaningful learning of the basic concepts given in presentations, association of concepts with each other, establishing the cause-result relationships and making comments by using the information available for problems and evaluating idea generation are carried out with mid-term and final exams, homework and presentations.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dokuz Eylul University, Science Faculty, Chemistry Department
leman.tarhan@hotmail.com

Office Hours

Wednesday 13.30 - 15.30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparation before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparing Homework and Presentations 1 35 35
Preparation for Final Exam 1 40 40
Preparation for Mid-term Exam 1 35 35
Final 1 2 2
Mid-term 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 192

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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