Multidisciplinary approach to the diagnosis of cardiovascular diseases: Mechanisms of diseases, pathologic findings, clinical presentations, laboratory tests, diagnostic imaging and treatment. Topics include heart failure, congenital heart disease, ischemic heart disease, valvular heart disease, cardiomyopathies, hypertension and hypertensive heart disease, pericardial disease and heart tumors, atherosclerosis and non-atherosclerotic vascular diseases.

Introduction to the time value of money and discounted cash flow analysis; coverage of financial decisions to maximize the value of the firm?s equity: valuation of assets, liabilities, and common equity; capital budgeting decisions; opportunity cost of capital; risk and return.

Basic concepts of chemical and biological engineering systems. Modeling through material and energy balances. Problem solving methods, computational techniques and computer simulation. Examples from chemical and pharmaceutical industries.

Protein characterization, enzyme kinetics, basic metabolic pathways, membrane structure and function, biochemistry of energy and signal transduction, replication and expressions of genes. Labaratory studies.

Experimental demonstration of concepts taught in separations, reaction engineering and control.

Chemical process and product design methods; economic analysis of chemical processing plants.

Adsorption on surfaces, structural and dynamic considerations in adsorption, thermodynamics of adsorption, methods for catalyst characterization, pore structure and surface area, surface chemistry of catalysis, metals, highly dispersed catalysts, industrial examples with emphasis on energy production

Crude oil and biomass refining technologies. Fractionation, catalytic- and thermo- cracking, gasoline and diesel upgrading and other side processes in crude oil refining; gasification, pyrolysis, transesterification and condensation processes in biomass refining; economical and environmental factors in refining.

Biotechnology course with a strong emphasis on bioprocess engineering principles. Fermentation, mammalian cell culture, continuous culture, biological unit operations, lectures on synthetic biology topics. Strongly recommended for CHBI students that wish to design a biological process in CHBI 491.

Reconstruction of metabolic network from genome information and its structural and functional analysis, computational models of biochemical reaction networks; system biology in drug discovery and proteomics, flux balance analysis; modeling of gene expression; system biology in artificial intelligence.

Fundamental principles and advantages of drug delivery technologies; drug delivery mechanisms; advantages of controlled delivery; administration routes; drug delivery agents; possible modifications of delivery vehicles for specific applications.

Concepts and fundamentals of optimization, numerical algorithms for (un-) constrained optimization, concepts of mathematical programming (LP,NLP,MINLP), examples of optimal chemical/biological process design, computer-aided simulations.

A capstone design course where students apply engineering and science knowledge in a chemical and biological engineering design project. Development, design and management of a project in teams under realistic constraints and conditions. Emphasis on communication, teamwork and presentation skills.

Fluids classification; transport coefficients; momentum transfer and velocity profiles; energy and mass transfer for isothermal and multicomponent systems; mass transfer with chemical reaction; applications for chemical and biological systems.

Kinetics of homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical reactions; catalysts; design of chemical reactors; applications for chemical and biological systems.

Classical thermodynamics: enthalpy, entropy, free energies, equilibria; introduction to statistical thermodynamics to describe the properties of materials; kinetic processes; diffusion of mass, heat, energy; fundamentals of rate processes in materials, kinetics of transformations.

Adsorption on surfaces, structural and dynamic considerations in adsorption, thermodynamics of adsorption, methods for catalyst characterization, pore structure and surface area, surface chemistry of catalysis, metals, highly dispersed catalysts, industrial examples with emphasis on energy production

Crude oil and biomass refining technologies. Fractionation, catalytic- and thermo- cracking, gasoline and diesel upgrading and other side processes in crude oil refining; gasification, pyrolysis, transesterification and condensation processes in biomass refining; economical and environmental factors in refining.

Biotechnology course with a strong emphasis on bioprocess engineering principles. Fermentation, mammalian cell culture, continuous culture, biological unit operations, lectures on synthetic biology topics. Strongly recommended for CHBI students that wish to design a biological process in CHBI 491.

Reconstruction of metabolic network from genome information and its structural and functional analysis, computational models of biochemical reaction networks; system biology in drug discovery and proteomics, flux balance analysis; modeling of gene expression; system biology in artificial intelligence. These concepts will be supported with statistic, thermodynamic, structural biology and learning machine

Fundamental principles and advantages of drug delivery technologies; drug delivery mechanisms; advantages of controlled delivery; administration routes; drug delivery agents; possible modifications of delivery vehicles for specific applications.

Concepts and fundamentals of optimization, numerical algorithms for (un-) constrained optimization, concepts of mathematical programming (LP,NLP,MINLP), examples of optimal chemical/biological process design, computer-aided simulations.

Atomic structure, chemical bonds, compounds, solutions, stoichiometry. Electrochemistry, thermodynamics, kinetics, acids and bases, basic organic chemistry.