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| CEV5195 | Environmental Biotechnology | 3+0+0 | ECTS:7.5 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | Second Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. İsmail DEMİR | | Co-Lecturer | Non | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The main objectives of this course are to provide the students informations about environmental biotechnology. |
| Programme Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | PO - 1 : | have knowledge about environmental biotechnology in detail | 3 - 5 - 6 | 1,5, | | PO - 2 : | to do detail literature research on spesific environmental biotechnology methods | 3 - 5 - 6 | 1,5, | | PO - 3 : | have information about applications of spesific and current techniques in environmental biotechnology | 3 - 5 - 6 | 1,5, | | PO - 4 : | use current techniques in environmental biotechnology | 3 - 5 - 6 | 1,5, | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome | | |
| Importance of environmental biotechnology, ecosystem processes, environmental resources, global environmental problems, structure and function of microbial life, air and water pollition and and their control, degradation, bioabsorption, bioremediation, biofertilizers and biopesticides. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Importance of environmental biotechnology | | | Week 2 | Ecosystem prosesess | | | Week 3 | Environmental resources and global environmental problems | | | Week 4 | Structure and functions of microbial life: Microbial systematics | | | Week 5 | Structure and functions of microbial life: Ecology | | | Week 6 | Structure and functions of microbial life: Microbial metabolism | | | Week 7 | Major metabolic pathways and theirs importance for environmental biotechnology | | | Week 8 | Air and water pollition and their control | | | Week 9 | Mid-Term Exem | | | Week 10 | Bioabsorption | | | Week 11 | Bioremediation and applications | | | Week 12 | Biofertilizers | | | Week 13 | Applications | | | Week 14 | Biopesticides | | | Week 15 | Presentations | | | Week 16 | End-term Exam | | | |
| 1 | Wang, L.K., Ivanov, V., Tay, J.H., Hung, Y.T. 2010, Environmental Biotechnology | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | | 1 | 30 | | Presentation | 15 | | 0,30 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | | 1,50 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 3 | 14 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 2 | 8 | 16 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Ödev | 2 | 12 | 24 | | Proje | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 4 | 14 | 56 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 3 | 1 | 3 | | Total work load | | | 198 |
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