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Rutter, Charles; Pancorbo, Jennifer – Chemical Engineering Education, 2020
Fermentation is responsible for the production of myriad products across a variety of industrial sectors. In particular, the biomanufacturing industry requires a labor force proficient in fermentation and its associated technologies to drive the production of recombinant protein therapeutics. This paper describes the development of a course that…
Descriptors: Biotechnology, Manufacturing Industry, Biochemistry, Scientific Concepts
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Burns, Kristi L.; Oldham, Charlie D.; May, Sheldon W. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2009
As part of a multidisciplinary course that is cross-listed between five departments, we developed an undergraduate student laboratory experiment for culturing, isolating, and purifying the biopolymer, poly(3-hydroxybutyrate), PHB. This biopolyester accumulates in the cytoplasm of bacterial cells under specific growth conditions, and it has…
Descriptors: Plastics, Undergraduate Students, Chemistry, Biotechnology