Personalised Medicine|Genomic Medicine|Computational Biology|New Technologies

Module Summary

This module will focus on the computational biology aspects of personalised and genomic medicine. You will learn how bioinformatics and...

Computational Biology for Personalised Medicine (CHLD0090)

ADVANCED MATERIALS PROCESSES|NANOTECHNOLOGY|ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY|SOFT MATTER FUNDAMENTALS

Aims:

To give students an understanding of processes involved in the production of novel materials. To provide students with a systematic approach to the...

Advanced Materials Processes and Nanotechnology (CENG0030)

Aims:

To give students an understanding of processes involved in the production of novel materials. To provide students with a systematic approach to the selection of material fabrication routes with applications to the biomedical, coating, fine chemical, food, microelectronic and semiconductor industries.

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this course students are expected to:

be aware of novel materials and recently developed material processes;
	understand essential concepts in materials science at multiple scales, from the molecules to manufacturing;
	be able to apply fundamental chemical engineering principles (such as transport phenomena, chemical kinetics, thermodynamics) in the design and operation of materials processes involving nanofabrication, templating, self-assembly
Synopsis:

To introduce the concepts of:

Processes in the electronics industry:
	epitaxial & polycrystalline silicon production
		silicon doping
		microlithography
		chemical vapour deposition
		physical vapour deposition.
	
	Soft matter fundamentals & applications: Lipids, proteins, colloids, polymers, emulsions, self-assembly, thin-film processing, templating.

BUSINESS SUSTAINABILITY|INNOVATION THEORY|PUBLIC POLICY FOR ECO-INNOVATION

This module combines concepts from two fields highly relevant to environment and natural resource issues: innovation studies, and business sustainability. The...

Eco-Innovation and Sustainable Entrepreneurship (BENV0077)