Abstract
Biotechnology is one of the active domains in the NSF funded Engineering Research Center VaNTH (Vanderbilt, Northwestern, University of Texas, and Harvard/MIT) where an educational mosaic is currently being developed. This mosaic covers a collection of challenges designed around bioreactors, mass/momentum transfer issues, microbial kinetics, and downstream processing, which are among core biotechnology topics. Aspects of this mosaic have been tested by students at Vanderbilt University and have proven to be useful. Based on the results from these studies, the challenges relating to bioreactors and mass/momentum transfer are currently being refined. At Northwestern, Birol and coworkers have developed challenge-based educational materials that focus on microbial kinetics and downstream processing. The combination of the work developed at Vanderbilt with the new challenge topics at Northwestern form the basis of the 'mosaic' for a course on biotechnology. The aim of this study was to design a new biotechnology course centered on challenge-based education and to implement the new educational tools. This paper focuses on the implementation of the mosaic at Northwestern in the new Bioprocess Technology Course (BME 395). We also focus on how the new biotechnology course at Northwestern builds on the work from Vanderbilt and discuss issues relating to the implementation of innovative course materials.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 9005-9017 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings |
| State | Published - 2002 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 2002 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition: Vive L'ingenieur - Montreal, Que., Canada Duration: Jun 16 2002 → Jun 19 2002 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Engineering