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BSE-3534: Bioprocess Engineering

Description: Engineering concepts for biological conversion of raw materials to food, pharmaceuticals, fuels, and chemicals. Metabolic pathways leading to products, enzyme kinetics, cell growth kinetics, and analysis of bioreactors and fermenters.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: BSE-3154

Required By: BSE-4564, BSE-4534

Corequisites: BSE-3504, (BIOL-2604 or BIOL-2604H.)

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 9

Average GPA: 3.61 (A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 55.62%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.85%

Wujin Sun202448.4%34.7%9.5%3.4%1.7%2.2%3.302
Robert C Wright202266.3%29.5%2.5%0.0%0.8%0.8%3.584
Smith Staff Mbaneme201879.4%20.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.791
Wu Chun Feng201791.7%6.3%2.1%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.882

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