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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
Twelve weeks full time bioprocessing employment approved by the Department between the junior and senior years. The student must submit a comprehensive report and give a presentation to fulfill this requirement. Summer. Prerequisite: PSE 370 or equivalent.
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2.00 Credits
One semester full-time bioprocessing experience as an engineering intern on company-assigned projects. Typically, the student works for a semester and adjacent summer also taking BPE 304. The student must submit a comprehensive report and give a presentation to fulfill this requirement. Fall and Spring. Prerequisite: PSE 370 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours of lecture per week. Basic principles of colloidal and interfacial science. Foundation and theoretical understanding as applied in bioseparations, transport phenomena, chemical/biochemical/ biological processes. Spring. Prerequisites: PSE 370, PSE 361, FCH 152, and EFB 103 or equivalent. Co-requisite: BPE 335.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours of lecture per week. Principles of heat and mass transfer as applied to the bioprocess industries. Topics include conduction, convective heat and mass transfer, diffusion of both steady-state and transient situations, analogies for heat and mass transfer, boundary layers, porous media transport, heat and mass transfer analyses. Discussion of specific bioprocess examples. Spring. Credit will not be granted for both BPE 335 and ERE 534. Prerequisites: PSE 370, PSE 371.
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1.00 Credits
Three hours of laboratory per week. Introduction to report writing and laboratory safety. Experiments on fluid mechanics, heat transfer, diffusion, and convective mass transfer as applied to the bioprocess industries. Data analysis and data presentation in oral and written form are required. Spring. Prerequisites: PSE 370 and PSE 371 or equivalents. Co-requisite: BPE 335 (or prerequisite).
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3.00 Credits
Three hours of lecture per week. Major unit operations used for the separation, purification and recovery of products from complex mixtures. Separation processes including sedimentation, filtration, centrifugation, membrane ultra-filtration, nanofiltration, ion exchange processes, chromatographic separations. Fall. Credit will not be granted for both BPE 420 and ERE 502. Prerequisite: BPE 310.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours of lecture per week. Topics in biochemical kinetics and reaction engineering are discussed including their application to microbiological systems used for bioprocessing. Batch and continuous biochemical reactor designs. The role of agitation in gas and solids delivery and heat removal for inclusion in design decisions. Impact of engineering parameters and design decisions on operability and economics. Fall. Prerequisite: BPE 320.
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3.00 Credits
One hour of lecture and six hours of laboratory per week. Measurement and analysis of bioprocess systems, including steadystate and dynamic modeling of systems. Investigation of various bioprocesses including fermentation, enzymatic reactions, and reactive processes involving lignocellulosic materials. Spring. Prerequisite: BPE 420 and BPE 421.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours of lecture per week. Historical, current and future uses of biomass as a source of renewable energy for the production of bioenergy, biofuels and bioproducts. Characteristics of biomass, their conversion to different forms of energy and end products, and an assessment of their sustainability. Spring. Prerequisite: ESC 325, ESC 335 or permission of instructor. Note: Credit will not be granted for both BPE 441 and ERE 641.
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3.00 Credits
Three hours of lecture per week. Methods for estimating capital investment, operating costs and return on investment for bioprocesses. Bioprocess flow sheet synthesis, operability, process simulation, optimization techniques, and preparation for a bioprocess design project. Spring. Prerequisite: PSE 480.
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