Course Catalog 2010-2011
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Course Catalog 2010-2011

BIO-2666 Nanobiotechnologies, 4 cr

Person responsible

Matti Karp

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures

 
 4 h/week

 

 

 
BIO-2666 2010-01 Tuesday 12 - 14, FC117
Wednesday 16 - 18, FC117

Requirements

Accepted learning diaries and essays. Presence on 80 % of lectures.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning outcomes

The course comprises of a series of lectures given by expert speakers. The lecturers and lecture topics vary from year to year, covering a wide range of research in nanobiotechnology. After passing the course the student will have a concept of past, current and future status of nanobiotechnology. He/she will understand nanoscale processes and how they relate to and differ from macroscale events. The student will learn concepts related to nanotechnology, nanobiotechnology and biotechnology, as well as to classify techniques and research in each category. Course evaluation will be implemented in the form of learning diaries and essays written by the students. These are designed to teach the student self-evaluation as well as improve skills in written reflection, questioning and argumentation.

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Research and advances in the field of nanobiotechnology   Nanoscale carriers of information   
2. Nanotechnologies in diagnostics   Protein engineering   
3. Nanoscale detection methods   Nanoelectronics   
4. Nanomedicine     
5. Written self-evaluation and description of learning process     

Evaluation criteria for the course

The grade (0-5) will be determined on the basis of learning diaries and essays written by the students. There will be no exam. To pass the course with a grade 1 the student will have to hand in all assignments within the deadline as well as compile them according to the instructions. The grades 2-5 can be earned by including own reasoning and discussion as well as additional information in the written assignments. Specific criteria for evaluation are presented on the course page in Moodle.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Edition, availability, ... Examination material Language
Book   Bionanotechnology: lessons from nature   Goodsell, D.   0-471-41719-X          English  
Lecture slides                English  

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Correspondence of content

There is no equivalence with any other courses

Additional information

Organized by two universities, TUT and UTA. First part is given at TUT premises and second part at UTA/IMT.
Suitable for postgraduate studies

More precise information per implementation

Implementation Description Methods of instruction Implementation
BIO-2666 2010-01   Lectures
Other contact teaching
   
Contact teaching: 48 %
Distance learning: 0 %
Self-directed learning: 52 %  

Last modified19.02.2010