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Department of Biotechnology

Biotechnology

    Courses

    The department offers a number of courses ranging from 'discipline specific' courses to 'common to all' courses. The specialized course packages offered to B.E. Biotechnology students enables them to diversify to other areas of biotechnology. The students get hands on training to various techniques form the specially designed lab based courses. Electives drawn from different areas of biology, engineering and technology are tailored to the individual student’s interest. This allows students to explore the interdisciplinary areas of biotechnology to compete better in the demanding world.

    Yr

    First Semester

    Second Semester

    I

    BIO       F110     Biology laboratory

    BIO       F111     General Biology

    CHEM  F110     Chemistry Laboratory

    CHEM  F111     General Chemistry

    MATH  F111     Mathematics I

    PHY      F110     Physics Laboratory

    PHY      F110     Mechanics, Oscillations & Waves

    BITS     F110     Engineering Graphics

    MATH     F112     Mathematics II

    ME           F110     Workshop Practice

    CS           F111     Computer Programming

    EEE         F111     Electrical Sciences

    BITS       F112     Technical Report Writing

    MATH     F113     Probability and Statistics

    BITS        F111     Thermodynamics

    II

    MATH  F221     Mathematics III

    Open/ Humanities Elective

    BIOT     F211     Biological Chemistry

    BIOT     F212     Microbiology

    BIOT     F215     Biophysics

    BIOT     F213     Cell Biology

    ECON     F211     Principles of Economics

    MGTS    F211     Principles of Management

                         Open/ Humanities Elective

    BIOT     F241     Genetic Engineering Techniques

    BIOT     F243     Genetics

    BIOT     F245     Intro to Environment Biotech

    BIOT     F244     Instrumental Methods of Analysis

    III

    Open/ Humanities Elective

    BIOT     F311     Recombinant DNATech

    BIOT     F314     Industrial Microbiology &   Bioprocess Engineering

    Discipline Electives

                           Open/ Humanities Elective

    BIOT     F342     Immunology

    BIOT     F343     Experiments in Biotechnology

    BIOT     F344     Downstream Processing

                               Discipline Electives

    IV

    Open/ Humanities Elective

    Discipline Electives

    PS II (20)

    Or Thesis (16)

    Or Thesis (9) and Electives (6 to 9)

     

    List of Discipline elective courses offered by the department

     

    1.

    BIOT   F242

    Introduction to Bioinformatics

    2.

    BIOT  F345

    Proteomics

    3.

    BIOT F417

    Biomolecular Modeling

    4.

    BIOT F413

    Molecular Biology of  the cell

    5.

    BIOT   F352

    Cell and Tissue culture Technology

    6.

    BIOT F346

    Genomics

    7.

    BIOT  F347

    Immunotechnology

    8.

    BIOT  F416

    Introduction to Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

    9.

    BIOT  F424

    Food biotechnology

    10.

    BIOT  F420

    Introduction to Plant Biotechnology

    11.

    BIOT  F422

    Nanobiotechnology

    12.

    BIOT  F423

    Drug design and delivery

    13.

    BIOT   F467

    Bioethics and Biosafety

     

    The students need to complete 5 Discipline Electives, 3 Humanities Electives and 5 Open Electives to be eligible to graduate.