QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES FOR BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: MATH 222 , ( CHEM 104 , 109 , or 116 ), and ( BOTANY/BIOLOGY/ZOOLOGY 151 , ZOOLOGY 153 , ZOOLOGY/BIOLOGY 101 , BOTANY/BIOLOGY 130 , MICROBIO 101 , or ENVIR ST/BOTANY/ZOOLOGY 260 ) Course Designation: Core GenEd - Natural Science & Wellness Breadth - Biological Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and analyze how energy and materials enter and are utilized by cells, organisms, and ecosystems using engineering concepts including material and energy balances, redox balance, and the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Mathematically model important biological processes including enzyme kinetics and microbial growth and be able to quantitatively assess how interactions between biological characteristics and the environment affect system performance. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Recognize the basic types of plants and their ecosystems and be able to describe the ways in which plants interact with their environment and how that interaction can be manipulated to achieve desired outcomes. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Describe the ways in which all living creatures interact with each other and their environment on the local, regional, and global scale and to consider how the activities of people can affect the sustainability of these interactions. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and analyze how energy and materials enter and are utilized by cells, organisms, and ecosystems using engineering concepts including material and energy balances, redox balance, and the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Mathematically model important biological processes including enzyme kinetics and microbial growth and be able to quantitatively assess how interactions between biological characteristics and the environment affect system performance. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Recognize the basic types of plants and their ecosystems and be able to describe the ways in which plants interact with their environment and how that interaction can be manipulated to achieve desired outcomes. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Describe the ways in which all living creatures interact with each other and their environment on the local, regional, and global scale and to consider how the activities of people can affect the sustainability of these interactions. Audience: Undergraduate