| Learning outcomes | Teaching objectives
Being biotechnology experts, bioengineers are first and foremost academic engineers of living matter. Bioengineers play an important role in the application of knowledge on the living world at the service of research, industry and society. Therefore, learning how to apply engineering techniques in manufacturing, processing and managing living matter in a sustainable, eco-friendly and ethically responsible manner is central to the bioengineering training programme.
Attainment targets of the training programme
Graduates are expected to be capable of understanding the most advanced results and techniques of biotechnology in view of their application in the areas of research, industry, the environment, agriculture or healthcare, including the service sector, government policy and development cooperation. Graduates are expected to smoothly use and apply the majority of techniques, enabling them to lead and manage such activities. In addition, they are to be familiar with methods used in the design, analysis and optimisation of processes, enabling them to perform a number of tasks themselves or to cooperate with other process engineers. This must enable bioengineers to lead and to be responsible for, for instance production processes. As it is no longer possible to have a due command of all disciplines today, bioengineers play a crucial interface role in swiftly tranferring findings from R&D to production. These objectives are translated into the following set of concrete attainment targets:
Basic skills
Students are to acquire:
·A due understanding of fundamental sciences.
·Insight into biological processes.
·Insight into the functioning of living organisms.
·Quantitative insight into biological processes.
·Conceptual insight into scientific/technological subject matter.
·The ability for critical reflection on a scientific/technological issue.
·The due sense to detect, analyse and resolve issues on a self-reliant basis.
·Passive scientific language skills.
·Good communication skills.
·Oral and written reporting skills.
Specific Attainment targets for bioengineers:
Graduates:
· are to have an in-depth understanding of the fundamental basic sciences of biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics;
· are to have an in-depth knowledge of microbiology, biochemistry and molecular biology;
· are to have a broad-based training in the areas of protein chemistry and protein engineering;
· are to be able to apply techniques relating to determination of genomics and proteomics;
· are to be experienced in the application of bio-information technology
· are to be familiar with the design, analysis and optimisation of production processes;
· are to have a thorough knowledge of nutrition, industrial microbiology and biotechnology, environmental biotechnology;
· are to be able to select, design and optimise laboratory-, pilot- and large-scale processes based on their broad-based understanding of downstream processing, biochemical engineering, mechanical and thermal processing;
· are to have a foundational understanding of management and business administration and intellectual property rights:
· are to understand the most advanced results and techniques in the field of biotechnology;
· are to be capable of applying these results and techniques in research, industry, the environment, agriculture and healthcare, in a sustainable manner;
· are to have gained first-hand experience of the professional working environment by way of an internship in private industry;
· are to be able to assume responsibility and leadership.
Specific attainment targets for the Chemistry and Bioprocess technology specialist training programme:
This Master training programme places emphasis on the structure-function-relationships, next to aspects such as biomimetics, supramolecular structures, nanotechnology, miniaturisation, microstructuring and integrated production.
Graduates are to have:
·a holistic view of the interaction between industry and society (environmental protection, energy savings, sustainable development, life cycle analysis of products and processes)
·a due knowledge of applied physicochemistry (colloid chemistry, polymers)
·chemical process technology (catalysis and adsorption, process control, reactors)
Additionally, Catalysis and Biomolecular Design specialist training programme graduates are to have:
·a specialist training in the chemistry of natural products, the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and immunochemistry
·and be familiar with the use of high throughput techniques (combinatorial chemistry and biochemistry) and drug design
Additionally, Food Biotechnology specialist training programme graduates are to have:
·an in-depth training in the areas of food technology (vegetable and animal products, brewery technology), food microbiology and hygiene and predictive modelling.
·a specialist training in dairy technology and functional foods.
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