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BIOT 280 - CO-OP/Internship


PREREQUISITES: Program Advisor Approval
PROGRAM: Biotechnology
CREDIT HOURS MIN: 1 CREDIT HOURS MAX: 6
INTERNSHIP/EXTERNSHIP HOURS MIN: 10 INTERNSHIP/EXTERNSHIP HOURS MAX: 30
DATE OF LAST REVISION: Summer, 2011

Provides students with the opportunity to work at a job site that is specifically related to their career objectives. Provides on-the-job experience while earning credit toward an associate degree.

MAJOR COURSE LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Upon successful completion of this course the student will be expected to:

  1. Demonstrate mastery of the documentation practices appropriate to their primary assignment.
  2. Demonstrate an understanding and appropriately comply with the safety regulatory environment associated with the company at large and with their primary assignment.
  3. Demonstrate technical growth. This includes deeper understanding of the theoretical and technical details associated with their primary assignment and with the activities of the company at large.
  4. Demonstrate mastery of those proficiencies required to carry out their primary assignment.
  5. Demonstrate behaviors, workplace skills and ethics appropriate to the workplace of their primary assignment.
  6. Demonstrate an understanding of the regulatory environment that applies to the company of their assignment and will demonstrate capacity to comply with said regulatory environment.
  7. Demonstrate an understanding of the business and economic considerations of the corporate environment.
  8. Demonstrate an understanding of their role in the quality of the product going to the consumer.
  9. Demonstrate increased understanding and/or proficiency in four of the following areas:
    • Aseptic operation including environmental monitoring techniques, gowning requirements, sterilization and sanitization and cleaning;
    • Product formulation;
    • Application of MS to protein analysis;
    • Application of various immunological based high-throughput analysis techniques;
    • Industrial and/or research applications of gas chromatography;
    • Applications of bioassays in product development and testing;
    • Techniques used in elemental analysis;
    • Industrial and research applications of bioinformatics;
    • Research and/or industrial use of radioisotopes;
    • Application of mutagenesis in product development and testing;
    • Use and maintenance of process equipment;
    • Control and automation of process equipment;
    • Heat and mass transfer as it applies to process equipment;
    • Bioburden control techniques;
    • Techniques used in imaging analysis;
    • Operation of developmental and industrial scale bioreactors;
    • Techniques used in cell culture;
    • cGMP/cGLP handling of materials;
    • Techniques used in materials engineering;
    • Successful completion of regulatory projects, as assigned.


COURSE CONTENT: Topical areas of study include -  

  • Documentation
  • Safety
  • Theoretical and technical details
  • Mastery
  • Proficiencies
  • Workplace skills
  • Ethics
  • Regulatory environment
  • Business and economic considerations
  • Quality

 
Course Addendum - Syllabus (Click to expand)