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Approvals Pending: | College/Dean > Catalog > CCE Catalog | |
Effective Status: | Active | |
Effective Term: | 1103 - Spring 2010 | |
Course: | BBE 3043 | |
Institution: Campus: |
UMNTC - Twin Cities UMNTC - Twin Cities |
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Career: | UGRD | |
College: | TIOT - Institute of Technology | |
Department: | 11032 - Bioproducts & Biosyst Engineer | |
General | ||
Course Title Short: | Biological/Environment Thermo | |
Course Title Long: | Biological & Environmental Thermodynamics | |
Max-Min Credits for Course: |
3.0 to 3.0 credit(s) | |
Catalog Description: |
This course applies the laws of thermodynamics to understand energy, environmental and biological sciences. The first law and the second law of thermodynamics are used in representing phase change, biochemical reactions, metabolic cycles and photosynthesis. | |
Print in Catalog?: | Yes | |
CCE Catalog Description: |
This course applies the laws of thermodynamics to understand energy, environmental and biological sciences. The first law and the second law of thermodynamics are used in representing phase change, biochemical reactions, metabolic cycles and photosynthesis. | |
Grading Basis: | A-F or Aud | |
Topics Course: | No | |
Honors Course: | No | |
Delivery Mode(s): | Classroom | |
Instructor Contact Hours: |
3.0 hours per week | |
Years most frequently offered: |
Every academic year | |
Term(s) most frequently offered: |
Spring | |
Component 1: |
LEC (with final exam) |
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Auto-Enroll Course: |
No | |
Graded Component: |
LEC | |
Academic Progress Units: |
Not allowed to bypass limits. 3.0 credit(s) |
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Financial Aid Progress Units: |
Not allowed to bypass limits. 3.0 credit(s) |
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Repetition of Course: |
Repetition not allowed. | |
Course Prerequisites for Catalog: |
Math 1272 or 1273; Phys 1301, 1302, Chem 1021, Biol 1009 | |
Course Equivalency: |
No course equivalencies | |
Consent Requirement: |
No required consent | |
Enforced Prerequisites: (course-based or non-course-based) |
No prerequisites | |
Editor Comments: | New course proposal | |
Proposal Changes: | <no text provided> | |
History Information: | <no text provided> | |
Faculty Sponsor Name: |
Bruce Wilson | |
Faculty Sponsor E-mail Address: |
wilson@umnm.edu | |
Liberal Education | ||
Requirement this course fulfills: |
None | |
Other requirement this course fulfills: |
None | |
Criteria for Core Courses: |
Describe how the course meets the specific bullet points for the proposed core
requirement. Give concrete and detailed examples for the course syllabus, detailed
outline, laboratory material, student projects, or other instructional materials or method.
Core courses must meet the following requirements:
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Criteria for Theme Courses: |
Describe how the course meets the specific bullet points for the proposed theme
requirement. Give concrete and detailed examples for the course syllabus, detailed outline,
laboratory material, student projects, or other instructional materials or methods. Theme courses have the common goal of cultivating in students a number of habits of mind:
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Writing Intensive | ||
Propose this course as Writing Intensive curriculum: |
No | |
Question 1: |
What
types of writing (e.g., reading essay, formal lab reports, journaling)
are likely to be assigned? Include the page total for each writing
assignment. Indicate which assignment(s) students will be required to
revise and resubmit after feedback by the instructor or the graduate TA. <no text provided> |
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Question 2: |
How does assigning a significant amount of writing serve the purpose
of this course? <no text provided> |
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Question 3: |
What types of instruction will students receive on the writing aspect
of the assignments? <no text provided> |
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Question 4: |
How will the students' grades depend on their writing performance?
What percentage of the overall grade will be dependent on the quality and level of the students'
writing compared with the course content? <no text provided> |
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Question 5: |
If graduate students or peer tutors will be assisting in this course,
what role will they play in regard to teaching writing? <no text provided> |
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Question 6: |
How will the assistants be trained and
supervised? <no text provided> |
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Question 7: |
Write up a sample assignment handout here for a paper
that students will revise and resubmit after receiving feedback on the initial
draft. <no text provided> |
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Course Syllabus | ||
Course Syllabus: |
For new courses and courses in which changes in content and/or description and/or credits
are proposed, please provide a syllabus that includes the following information: course goals
and description; format;structure of the course (proposed number of instructor contact
hours per week, student workload effort per week, etc.); topics to be covered; scope and
nature of assigned readings (text, authors, frequency, amount per week); required course
assignments; nature of any student projects; and how students will be
evaluated. The University "Syllabi Policy" can be
found here
The University policy on credits is found under Section 4A of "Standards for Semester Conversion" found here. Course syllabus information will be retained in this system until new syllabus information is entered with the next major course modification. This course syllabus information may not correspond to the course as offered in a particular semester. (Please limit text to about 12 pages. Text copied and pasted from other sources will not retain formatting and special characters might not copy properly.) BBE 3043 BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL THERMODYNAMICS Instructors: Bruce Wilson Credits: 3.0 (3 lectures per week) Course Description: The aim of this course is to apply the laws of thermodynamics to the study of energy transformation in biological and environmental sciences. Audience: This course is for sophomores/juniors in engineering disciplines (IT students). Pre Requisites: Math 1272 or 1273; Phys 1301, 1302, Chem 1021, Biol 1009 Outcomes: 1. To be able to formulate the First Law and to define heat, work, thermal efficiency and differentiate between various forms of energy. 2. To be able identify and describe energy exchange processes in biological and environmental systems. 3. To be able to explain the concepts of path dependence/independence and reversibility/irreversibility of various thermodynamic processes, to represent these in terms of changes in thermodynamic state, and to cite examples of how these would impact the performance of various systems. Recommended Text: Haynie, D. T. 2001 Biological Thermodynamics. Oxford University Press, New York. Reference Text (suggested reading) Nelson, P. 2008. Biological Physics: Energy, Information and Life. W.H. Freeman and Company, New York. Atkins, P. and J. de Paula. 2006. Physical Chemistry of the Life Sciences. W.H. Freeman and Company, New York. Hammes G.G. 2000. Thermodynamics and Kinetics for the Biological Sciences. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. Bohren, C.F. and B.A. Albrecht. 1998. Atmospheric Thermodynamics. Oxford University Press, New York. Course Outline 1. Introduction (1 week): Scope of Thermodynamics, units and dimensions, concepts ¿ force, temperature, heat, pressure, work and energy. 2. First Law and Basic Concepts (3 weeks): Thermodynamic state and state functions, concepts of internal energy, enthalpy, heat capacity, formulation of first law, steady-state processes, constant volume and constant pressure processes, reversible processes, energy conservation in living organisms. 3. Properties of Fluids (2 week): Ideal gas laws, equations of state, atmospheric pressure, specific heats and enthalpy, generalized correlations for gases and liquids. 4. Second law of Thermodynamics (3 weeks): Concepts of entropy and heat engines, formulation of the second law, isothermal and adiabatic systems, statistical thermodynamics, third law, Gibbs energy. 5. Gibbs Free Energy - Theory (3 weeks): Equilibrium, phase transitions, chemical potential, equilibrium constants, solute effect on phase changes, role of temperature 6. Gibbs Free Energy - Application (3 weeks): Photosynthesis, lapse rate and cloud formation, osmosis, polymerase chain reaction, protein solubility. Some Examples in the Environmental area include: - Definitions of vapor pressure, relative humidity, absolute humidity, dew point temperature, wet-bulb temperature and virtual temperature - Application of Clausius-Clapeyron equation in phase change - Cloud formation - Chemical equilibrium applications to various environmental systems Some Examples in the Biological area include: - Applications of Thermodynamics to biochemcial reactions, metabolic cycles, direct synthesis of ATP, protein structure will be emphasized. - Applications of Gibbs Free Energy to osmosis, dialysis, enzyme-substrate interaction etc. |
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