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This journal club is a 1-credit class, open to graduate students in the BTP program. Other students will be allowed to join as space allows any given year. We will meet once per week, and each week we will review and discuss the most recent scientific literature related to biotechnology (spanning topics in Chemistry, Engineering, and Biology). This is primarily a student-run journal club, with faculty coordination.

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Basics of surface chemistry and vacuum technology will be introduced. Various analytical instruments such as XPS, UPS, SIMS, NMR, FTIR and Raman will be included in this course. Principles, instrumentation and applications of instruments will be covered. Emphasis will be on developing the ability to solve characterization problems in molecules, materials, devices and biological matters. Particular attention is given to the criteria for selecting the appropriate characterization techniques. Students will have lab demonstrations in the analytical laboratory environment.

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This seminar series is a 1-credit class, open to graduate students in the BTP program. Other students will be allowed to join as space allows any given year. Students enrolled in the seminar series are expected to attend 16 total seminars, with reporting on those attended, to receive 1 credit. Seminars span several departments and are chosen each year by the BTP executive committee for their relevance to topics in biotechnology.

A series of invited lectures on a variety of research programs. Required course; may be taken Pass/Fail. Prerequisite: graduate standing.

Emphasis on foundation and conceptual understanding of physical phenomena. Focus on prototypes of convective transport and transport processes involving homogeneous and heterogenous reactions; role of boundary conditions including moving boundaries; molecular interpretation of diffusion.

Analysis of the kinetics of homogeneous and heterogeneous reactions. The influence of transport and non-ideal fluid behavior on kinetics. The influence of in-homogeneity in temperature and mixing. Design parameters for ideal reactors and changes dictated by non-ideality. Prerequisites: courses in physical chemistry, thermodynamics, and differential calculus.