Environmental Biotechnology

3 units

This course aims to provide students with a background in current environmental biotechnology and to stimulate ideas about future potential new technologies. Students will gain qualitative and quantitative skills related to bioreactor designs in environmental applications (e.g., activated sludge, anaerobic digester, membrane bioreactors). Special focus will be placed on the application of mathematical models that are currently widely used in wastewater engineering, such as the International Water Association models. Hands-on experience with biological water treatment process modeling will be provided. Finally, students will be encouraged to explore links between environmental biotechnologies and a one health approach to public health.