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A central goal of our program is to provide biology and chemistry students with quantitative abilities and skills in the bioprocess engineering aspects of biotechnology, and to provide chemical engineering and bioengineering students with the appropriate tools of modern biology to enable them to undertake challenging thesis research in this area. ABBE has accordingly developed a series of recommended primary and advanced curricula to serve trainees coming from diverse fields. Primary curricula recommendations are designed to fill gaps in primary training for the trainees coming from diverse fields into this new one. The secondary curricula are for specialized training in expert topics within the field. Mentors and the program director work with each trainee to determine which courses are necessary to complete their interdisciplinary training and to support their research. The result is a combination of departmental core courses that must be satisfied by Ph.D. students in each department, as well as a set of courses that meet the needs of student research and ABBE goals, which take advantage of the considerable flexibility departments afford to students as they develop their scientific interests. In addition, it should be emphasized that there are numerous recently developed courses that are taught by our program faculty and that are therefore directly relevant to our ABBE training program. This formal coursework is taken in the first two or three semesters. Courses Recommended for Biotechnology Trainees Bioengineering |