Biochemical Engineering

4 credits · Graduate

CBE 270A Biochemical Engineering is designed to introduce the essential concepts of bioprocessing to graduate students majoring in chemical engineering for applications in the biopharmaceutical, industrial biotech, and food tech industries. This lecture-based course focuses on the use of chemical engineering skills and principles, including but not limited to kinetics and reactor design, thermodynamics and transport phenomena in the analysis and design of biologically-based processes, as well as economic analysis and ethics. The main emphasis of CBE 270A, the first of a two-semester sequence, will be on the upstream bioprocess of how to make products by designing unit operations and processes around living systems of cells.