Curriculum
Course Listings

Course MBP Prerequisites Instructors / Affiliation Units Quarter Offered/Course Times
MBIOTECH 303
Principles of Chemical Engineering
UG calculus and general chemistry courses Igor Kourkine/ Arthur Felse/MBP 1 Fall: MWF 1:00 - 1:50pm
MBIOTECH 304
Molecular and Cell Biology for Translational Biotechnology
Abbie Stringer/MBP 1 Fall: TuTh 9:30-10:50am
MBIOTECH 402
Bioprocess Engineering Laboratory
MBIOTECH 303 or similar UG courses Arthur Felse/ MBP 1 Winter: Th 10:00-5:00pm Spring: TuTh 10:00am - 5:00pm
MBIOTECH 410
Technology Commercialization Fundamentals
None TBD 1 Winter: Fri 2:00 - 4:50pm
MBIOTECH 420
Critical Thinking and Communication
None Igor Kourkine/ MBP 1 Fall: MWF 12:00 - 12:50pm
MBIOTECH 476-1
Kinetics, Energetics and Bioreactor
Design
(Bioprocess Engineering I)
MBIOTECH 303, or similar UG courses plus some biochemistry and molecular biology Danielle Tullman-Ercek/ MBP and ChBE 1 Spring
MBIOTECH 476-2
Properties and Separation of Biologically Produced Molecules (Bioprocess Engineering II)
MBIOTECH 303, or similar UG courses plus some biochemistry Igor Kourkine/ MBP 1 Winter: MTWF 9:00-9:50am
MBIOTECH 482
Regulatory Sciences in Biotechnology
Basic biology and chemistry Arthur Felse/ MBP 1 Winter: Th 6:00-9:30pm
MBIOTECH 501
MBP Research Seminar
None Arthur Felse/ MBP 0.5 Spring
MBIOTECH 506
Topics in Professional Development
in Biotechnology
None Helen Oloroso/ Engineering Career Development 0 Fall: W 4:00 - 6:00pm
MBIOTECH 507
Team Dynamics
and Leadership
None

Todd Murphy/NU

0 Winter: 10:00-11:50am
MBIOTECH 508
Responsible
Conduct of
Research
None TBD 0 Spring
MBIOTECH 510
Biotechnology
Research
None Arthur Felse/ MBP 7.5 Fall, Winter, Spring: Does not meet

 

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