Product based project
Assigned Jan. 11, scheduled to be presented in class
Poster Presentation Dates:
February 8
February 9
February 10
Location: In hallway outside Biosciences 1443
Poster assessment criteria:
- informative
- creative in the design of the poster
- clearly explain what you have learned
- did you/poster teach me something new about your product?
Report assessment criteria:
- cell line or enzyme system described
- raw materials used
- where manufactured
- amounts produced
- markets, selling costs
- process information such as flows, reactor types, product separation steps, packaging of product, distribution....
- technical report style
- grading based on extent to which you did your research, and depth of understanding around product/process.
Same marking scheme for both poster and report
4.5 or 5/5: yes!!
4/5: pretty much
3 or 3.5/5: nice try
2 or 2.5/5: yikes
1 or 1.5/5: another planet
List of product design topics to be presented in the Engineering Biology Symposium '10
Guidelines
Choose a cell or enzyme catalyzed process/product that is interesting to you (eg. antibiotic, gasohol, yeast or lactic culture, cheese, recombinant protein, steroid, high fructose corn syrup, protease/lipase, monoclonal antibody, stem cells, artificial skin…). Do some reading on the process/product and present a descriptive account of the process and product including such things as brief background information on the cell line or enzyme, raw materials used, where it is manufactured, amounts produced, markets, selling costs, and any information that you may find on the process such as flows, reactor types, product separation steps, packaging of the product, distribution… The points above are suggestions or examples of the type of information that you can compile, so be creative in your approach to the task. The objective is that at the end of the exercise, you will have a pretty good idea about one industry and one product involving Biochemical/Bioprocess/Biomedical Engineering technologies.
Please review the background theory related to this product so that you can understand the product better, but the product presentations are not intended to summarize or outline this theory.
Do not chose an environmental process (waste treatment or bioremediation process), as this is outside of the subject of this course. If you are feeling lost, please see me for suggestions. Also, please clear the process/product with me (neufeld@queensu.ca) before getting started. I want to have a range of products for the class to examine.
I will ask you each to prepare a poster on your product project to present to other students in the class. The evaluation of the poster will be based on your ability to teach us something new and important about your product, using the guidelines above. The purpose of the poster is not to teach us about the theory or background history behind the product.
I will also ask you to email a 3 page (maximum) report on your product (in Word.doc or Word.docx format with file name lastname.firstname.doc) in which you summarize in a technical report writing style, the technical information that you have obtained and learned about your product. The purpose of the report is to convince me that you have done your homework and that you have developed a good in depth understanding around the manufacture of the particular product. If you wish to include background and theory with your report, please include it on a separate page, labelled "Please accept this additional stuff since I am hoping to get some extra marks by padding my report to make you think that I have done more work on the project than I have really done"... signed xx.
You will have about 3 weeks to complete this assignment. Report is due toward end of January, and I will schedule class presentations of the project at that time.
Supplementary reading
Exam from 2009
Read the article on stem cell basics on the NIH web site
Read articles on ethics:
- CIHR (Canadian) discussion paper on Human Stem Cell research
- Scientific American
- Stanford position paper
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