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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.