UMA Undergraduate Guide 2015-2016 Academic Departments and Programs Chemical Engineering Concentration in Biochemical Engineering
Concentration in Biochemical Engineering
The concentration in Biochemical Engineering is open to students majoring in Chemical Engineering. It provides students with specialized coursework and training to better prepare them for engineering careers in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. The courses for this program fit into the required Advanced Chemistry Elective and Technical Electives that all Chemical Engineering students are required to take. Students must take a total of 15 credits. The following nine credits are required: BIOCHEM 275 Cellular and Molecular Biology Students must also take an additional six credits of advanced coursework or research in special topics in bioengineering. These six credits must be engineering courses. Approved courses are: BioChem 657 Drug Design Biology 383H Gene & Genome Analysis ChE 220 Chemical Engineering Principles of Biological Systems ChE 575 Tissue Engineering ChE 576 Bioprocessing Engineering Lab (may be taken in lieu of Chem-Eng 402 Senior Lab) ChE 597B Soft Materials and Biomaterials ChE 597C Introduction to Biomolecular Engineering ChE 597D Nanostructured Biomaterials ChE 296, 396, 496 Independent Study in bioengineering ChE 296H, 396H, 496H Honors Independent Study in bioengineering ChE 499Y, 499T Honors Senior Thesis in bioengineering ChE 697A Special Topics: Molecular and Systems Biotechnology Additional courses may be used to meet this requirement, but advance approval of the Undergraduate Program Director (UPD) is required. Students wishing to fulfill this requirement with an independent study or thesis must gain approval of the topic by the UPD before enrolling for credit. Only three-credit independent study courses may be used to fulfill this requirement. A typical sequence of courses for students in the program is listed below. Students are encouraged to take BIOCHEM 275 during a fall semester. (Please check course offering & availability first) Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior |
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