Chemical and Biochemical Product Engineering - Focus area
Chemical and Biochemical Product Engineering
The focus area on product engineering within the field of chemical and biochemical engineering is a direction students with interest in design, functionality, and synthesis of advanced biological and chemical materials and products can choose to specialize in. It naturally includes a strong emphasis on the mathematical description of physio-chemical phenomena and properties as these are important for the product as well as the synthesis and production techniques. A strong connection to physics, chemistry, biochemistry, and microbiology is present. Any individual study plan ought to include some process technological elements.
For focus areas such as chemical and biochemical product engineering there are no other mandatory requirements besides what has been listed under curriculum of the chemical and biochemical engineering MSc education in general. In the following advice regarding selection of course among the programme specific courses and elective are given to highlight how such as profile can be obtained.
The following programme specific courses are highly recommended for a study plan for students with interest in chemical and biochemical product engineering:
| 28311 | Chemical and Biochemical Product Design | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 28315 | Applied Colloid and Surface Chemistry | 5 | point | E7 (Tues 18-22) |
| 28361 | Chemical engineering model analysis | 7.5 | point | Spring F5B (Wed 13-17) |
| 28412 | Advanced Chemical Product Design | 5 | point | January |
| 28423 | Phase Equilibria for non-ideal mixtures | 5 | point | Spring F2A (Mon 13-17) |
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| 28420 | Separation Processes | 7.5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 28443 | Industrial Reaction Engineering | 7.5 | point | Spring F4B (Fri 8-12) |
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| 28345 | Industrial BioReaction Engineering | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 28530 | Transport Processes | 10 | point | Autumn E5 (Wed 8-17) |
| 28855 | Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and quality in pharmaceutical, biotech and food industry - Theoretical version | 5 | point | Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17) |
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| 28857 | Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and quality in pharmaceutical, biotech and food industry - Practical version | 7.5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) and Autumn E3B (Fri 13-17) |
The following programme specific courses also contribute to build strong competences in chemical and biochemical product engineering and related processing technology:
| 23522 | Rheology of food and biological materials | 5 | point | January |
| 26436 | Pharmaceutical Drug Development | 10 | point | Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
| 26510 | Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry | 10 | point | Spring F4 (Tues 13-17, Fri 8-12) |
| 26620 | Chemistry and Innovation | 5 | point | June |
| 27246 | Applied enzyme technology and kinetics | 5 | point | E7 (Tues 18-22) |
| 27455 | Microbial adaptation to industrial processes | 5 | point | Spring F2B (Thurs 8-12) |
| 28213 | Polymer Technology | 5 | point | Autumn E3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 28214 | Polymer synthesis and characterization | 5 | point | June |
| 28233 | Recovery and purification of biological products | 5 | point | Autumn E2A (Mon 13-17) |
| 28242 | Chemical Kinetics and Catalysis | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 28434 | Membrane Technology | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 28485 | Biobusiness and Process Innovation | 5 | point | Autumn E1B (Thurs 13-17) |
| 28535 | Rheology of complex fluids (light) | 5 | point | June |
| 28872 | Biorefinery | 5 | point | Autumn E4B (Fri 8-12) |
| 47304 | Ceramic science and engineering | 10 | point | Spring F2 (Mon 13-17, Thurs 8-12) |
Electives, i.e., courses not counting as the polytechnic foundation or program specific courses in MSc Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, allow a study plan within chemical and biochemical product engineering to be broadened in scope. This can be done either by choosing additional programme specific courses but the following elective courses are relevant in contexct of an education in chemical and biochemical engineering with special focus on product engineering.
A few examples of electives are listed below in connection with the study plan examples.
| 12772 | Life Cycle Assessment of Products and Systems | 10 | point | Autumn E1 (Mon 8-12, Thurs 13-17) |
| 12774 | Assessing health, environmental and life cycle impacts | 5 | point | June |
| 27419 | Filamentous Fungi: Biology and Biotechnology | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 27510 | Biosensors and bioanalysis | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 28212 | Polymer Chemistry | 5 | point | Spring F3A (Tues 8-12) |
| 28216 | Organic Coatings Science and Technology | 5 | point | Spring F4A (Tues 13-17) |
| 28316 | Laboratory Course in Colloid and Surface Chemistry | 5 | point | January |
| 28811 | Polymers in processes and products | 5 | point | August |
| 28850 | Pharmaceutical Process Development | 5 | point | Spring F5A (Wed 8-12) |
| 41737 | Design of plastic products | 5 | point | Spring F1A (Mon 8-12) |
| 47339 | Solid state and structural chemistry | 5 | point | Autumn E1A (Mon 8-12) |
Examples of study plans
Two examples are shown: one for students beginning their MSc study in September, and one for students beginning their MSc study in February.
The study plans are examples only. Students are free to exchange the shown courses with other courses if the general requirements for the curriculum in chemical and biochemical engineering is satisfied. The proposed plans fulfil requirements of the curriculum in terms of the polytechnic foundation, programme specific coursed and thesis but do not fill all 120 ECTS. A few programme specific courses in excess of the required 55 ECTS are here included and these will count as electives.
Study plan examples - Chemical and Biochemical Product Engineering
Study plan for September start:
MSc Thesis
Study plan for February start:
MSc Thesis