DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

COURSE MODULES OF THE SUBJECT TAUGHT FOR THE SESSION AY:2023-24

Course Syllabus with CO’s
Academic Year: 2023 – 2024
Department: COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Contact Total
Course Core/Ele
Course Title Prerequisite Hours Hrs/
Code ctive
L T P Sessions
BIOLOGY Basic concepts of
FOR Biomolecules and Human
BBOC407 Core 2 - - 25
ENGINEERS organs, Knowledge of cell
(CSE) biology

Course Objectives
• To familiarize the students with the basic biological concepts and their
engineering applications.
• To enable the students with an understanding of bio-design principles to create
Objectives novel devices and structures.
• To provide the students an appreciation of how biological systems can be re-
designed as substitute products for natural systems.
• To motivate the students to develop interdisciplinary vision of biological
engineering.

Topics Covered as per Syllabus

Module -1 :
CELL BASIC UNIT OF LIFE Introduction. Structure and functions of a cell. Stem cells and their
application. Biomolecules: Properties and functions of Carbohydrates, Nucleic acids, proteins,
lipids. Importance of special biomolecules: Properties and functions of enzymes, vitamins and
hormones.

Module -2:
Carbohydrates in cellulose-based water filters production, PHA and PLA in bioplastics production,
Nucleic acids in vaccines and diagnosis, Proteins in food production, lipids in biodiesel and
detergents production, Enzymes in biosensors fabrication, food processing, detergent formulation
and textile processing.

Module -3:
Brain as a CPU system. Eye as a Camera system. Heart as a pump system. Lungs as purification
system. Kidney as a filtration system.

Module -4:
Echolocation, Photosynthesis. Bird flying, Lotus leaf effect, Plant burrs, Shark skin, Kingfisher
beak. Human Blood substitutes - hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers (HBOCs) and
perflourocarbons (PFCs).
Module -5 :
Muscular and Skeletal Systems as scaffolds, scaffolds and tissue engineering, Bioprinting
techniques and materials. Electrical tongue and electrical nose in food science, DNA origami and
Biocomputing, Bioimaging and Artificial Intelligence for disease diagnosis. Bioconcrete.
Bioremediation. Biomining.
List of Text Books

• Biology for Engineers, Rajendra Singh C and Rathnakar Rao N, Rajendra Singh C and Rathnakar
Rao N Publishing, Bengaluru, 2023.
• Human Physiology, Stuart Fox, Krista Rompolski, McGraw-Hill eBook. 16th Edition, 2022
• Biology for Engineers, Thyagarajan S., Selvamurugan N., Rajesh M.P., Nazeer R.A., Thilagaraj
W., Barathi S., and Jaganthan M.K., Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, 2012.
• Biology for Engineers, Arthur T. Johnson, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, 2011 • Biomedical
Instrumentation, Leslie Cromwell, Prentice Hall 2011.
• Biology for Engineers, Sohini Singh and Tanu Allen, Vayu Education of India, New Delhi, 2014.
• Biomimetics: Nature-Based Innovation, Yoseph Bar-Cohen, 1st edition, 2012, CRC Press.
• Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Methods and Technologies, D. Floreano and C.
Mattiussi, MIT Press, 2008.
• Bioremediation of heavy metals: bacterial participation, by C R Sunilkumar, N GeethaA C
Udayashankar Lambert Academic Publishing, 2019.
• 3D Bioprinting: Fundamentals, Principles and Applications by Ibrahim Ozbolat, Academic
Press, 2016.
• Electronic Noses and Tongues in Food Science, Maria Rodriguez Mende, Academic Press, 2016

List of URLs, Text Books, Notes, Multimedia Content, etc

• https://nptel.ac.in/courses/121106008
• https://freevideolectures.com/course/4877/nptel-biology-engineers-other-non-biologists
• https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/20-020-introduction-to-biological-engineering-design-
spring-2009
• https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/20-010j-introduction-to-bioengineering-be-010j-spring-
2006
• https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=biology
• https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc19_ge31/preview
• https://www.classcentral.com/subject/biology
• https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/biology-basic-concepts
At the end of the course, the student will be able to:

1. Elucidate the basic biological concepts via relevant industrial applications and
case studies.
Course
2. Evaluate the principles of design and development, for exploring novel
Outcomes
bioengineering projects.
3. Corroborate the concepts of biomimetics for specific requirements.
4. Think critically towards exploring innovative biobased solutions for socially
relevant problems.
The weightage of Continuous Internal Evaluation (CIE) is 50% and for Semester End Exam (SEE)
is 50%. The minimum passing mark for the CIE is 40% of the maximum marks (20 marks out of
50) and for the SEE minimum passing mark is 35% of the maximum marks (18 out of 50 marks).
A student shall be deemed to have satisfied the academic requirements and earned the credits
allotted to each subject/ course if the student secures a minimum of 40% (40 marks out of 100) in
the sum total of the CIE (Continuous Internal Evaluation) and SEE (Semester End Examination)
taken together.
Continuous Internal Evaluation:

• For the Assignment component of the CIE, there are 25 marks and for the Internal Assessment
Test component, there are 25 marks.

• The first test will be administered after 40-50% of the syllabus has been covered, and the second
test will be administered after 85-90% of the syllabus has been covered

• Any two assignment methods mentioned in the 22OB2.4, if an assignment is project-based then
only one assignment for the course shall be planned. The teacher should not conduct two
assignments at the end of the semester if two assignments are planned.

• For the course, CIE marks will be based on a scaled-down sum of two tests and other methods
of assessment. Internal Assessment Test question paper is designed to attain the different levels of
Bloom’s taxonomy as per the outcome defined for the course.
Semester-End Examination:
Theory SEE will be conducted by University as per the scheduled timetable, with common
question papers for the course (duration 03 hours).
1. The question paper will have ten questions. Each question is set for 20 marks.
2. There will be 2 questions from each module. Each of the two questions under a module (with a
maximum of 2 sub-questions), should have a mix of topics under that module.
3. The students have to answer 5 full questions, selecting one full question from each module.
4. Marks scored shall be proportionally reduced to 50 marks.

Content Beyond Syllabus :

• Seminar/Poster presentation
 The Correlation of Course Outcomes (CO’s) and Program Outcomes (PO’s)

Subject
Code:
BBOC407
List of Program Outcomes
Course PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO PO PO
Outcomes 10 11 12

CO-1 2 1 1 1 3 2 2 1 1 1 2 2
CO-2 2 1 3 1 3 1 2 2 2 1 2 2
CO-3 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 2
CO-4 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 1
Average 2 1 1.5 1.25 2.5 1.5 1.5 1.25 1.25 1.25 2 1.75

Note: 3 = Strong Contribution 2 = Average Contribution 1 = Weak Contribution 0 = No

Contribution

The Correlation of Course Outcomes (CO’s) and Program Specific Outcomes (PSO’s)

Subject
Code:
BBOC407

List of
Course
PSO1 PSO2
Outcomes
CO-1 1 1

CO-2 2 2

CO-3 1 1

CO-4 1 1

Average 1.25 1.25