GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
BIOCHEMICAL PROCESSES/5451309
Course Title: BIOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Course Semester 1 Type of The Course Elective
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
To teach the basic principles of biochemistry and biotechnology
To inform the students about bioprocesses
To introduce the sudentst to the fundementals of enzymatic reactions and microbial growth.
To teach how to derive and solve model equations for for batch and continous reactors in which enzymatic and microbial reactions carried out
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 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is face to face
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  Introduction
2. Week  The structures and functions of microorganisms
3. Week  Metabolic pathways
4. Week  Models to define enzyme kinetics and estimation of Micheal-Menten kinetics parameters
5. Week  Enzyme inhibition
6. Week  Cell cultures and preperation of cell growth media
7. Week  Cell growth kinetics
8. Week  Batch and continous fermenters
9. Week  Multiple fermenters
10. Week  Recycle fermenters; MIDTERM
11. Week  Effects of mass transfer in bioproceeses
12. Week  Recovery and purification of a product formed in biochemical reaction
13. Week  Oral presentation of semester project
14. Week  Oral presentation of semester project
15. Week  -
16. Week  -
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
1
40
 Assignment
2
5
 Application
0
0
 Projects
1
15
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Percent of In-term Studies  
60
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
40
 -- WORKLOAD
 Activity  Total Number of Weeks  Duration (weekly hour)  Total Period Work Load
 Weekly Theoretical Course Hours
14
3
42
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
0
0
0
 Reading Tasks
7
4
28
 Searching in Internet and Library
7
5
35
 Material Design and Implementation
1
2
2
 Report Preparing
2
4
8
 Preparing a Presentation
4
5
20
 Presentation
4
5
20
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
3
5
15
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
3
8
24
 Other (should be emphasized)
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
194
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.76
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
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5
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3X
4X
5X
6X
7X
8X
9X
10X
11X
12X
13X
14X
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18X
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20X
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Prof. Dr. Nurdan SARAÇOĞLU)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   ( http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/nsarac)
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (nsarac@gazi.edu.tr)