Teaching bioprocess engineering to undergraduates: Multidisciplinary hands-on training in a one-week practical course.

ABSTRACT: Bioprocess engineering is a highly interdisciplinary field of study which is strongly benefited by practical courses where students can actively experience the interconnection between biology, engineering, and physical sciences. This work describes a lab course developed for 2nd year undergraduate students of bioprocess engineering and related disciplines, where students are challenged with a real-life bioprocess-engineering application, the production of recombinant protein in a fed-batch process. The lab course was designed to introduce students to the subject of operating and supervising an experiment in a bioreactor, along with the analysis of collected data and a final critical evaluation of the experiment. To provide visual feedback of the experimental outcome, the organism used duri

SUBMITTER: Henkel M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6680437 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature