Master degree program
Environmental Bioengineering

Environmental Bioengineering

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Natural Sciences

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

ON1 - To form knowledge about the regularity of development of eco-biotechnology science and methodology of science education, modern scientific discoveries and integrated research based on scientific history and philosophy.
ON2 - To conduct research using a foreign language to carry out scientific and practical activities, as well as to carry out pedagogical activities in higher education, using knowledge of modern pedagogy and psychology.
ON3- Practice the latest techniques and technologies to solve fundamental problems in biology, genetics, biotechnology, plans and organizes the stages of scientific research.
ON4- Conduct a qualitative analysis of the state of environmental objects as a result of proper sampling, knowledge of the rules of storage, preservation, transportation.
ON5- Develop knowledge and techniques in the field of biochemical processes occurring in living organisms under conditions of stress.
ON6- Analyze ecobiotechnological systems for obtaining biological preparations and their use in the treatment of polluted natural and man-made environments, wastewater, and waste processing.
ON7- Use research methods on biotechnology facilities in green energy and food biosafety.
ON8- Apply methods of selection, modification, biosynthesis and biotransformation to design living systems and their components in ecobiotechnology.
ON9- Use resource- and energy-saving biotechnology, regulations and standards in the development and implementation of eco-biotechnology projects, requirements for the production, standardization, quality control and compliance with the safety of biotechnology products.

Program passport

Speciality Name
Environmental Bioengineering
Speciality Code
7M05117
Faculty
Biology and Biotechnology

disciplines

Biological methods of wastewater treatment
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The aim of the discipline: to study about methods and ways of hydrosphere protection from chemical pollution using biological methods, the implementation of engineering and environmental solutions for the rational use of nature and environmental protection, classification of biological methods of protection of water from chemical, physical types of pollution, the main equipment used for cleaning and disposal of industrial discharges.

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is to acquire and improve competencies by international standards of foreign language education and to communicate in an intercultural, professional, and scientific environment. A master's student must integrate new information, understand the organization of languages, interact in society, and defend his point of view.

History and Philosophy of Science
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: Understanding of modern philosophy as a system of scientific knowledge, including worldview in rational-theoretical comprehension. The discipline includes aspects of the evolution and development of scientific thinking, historical moments, the contribution of scientists and scientific schools to the formation of science, and ethical and social aspects of scientific activity.

Management of agricultural and domestic waste
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The aim of the discipline: studying technologies of processing and utilization of industrial and domestic waste, monitoring and rehabilitation of contaminated areas, mastering methods of microbial biotransformation of various xenobiotics, skills in assessing the degree of contamination by mutagenic and carcinogenic compounds of various ecosystems.

Modern Methods in Environmental Bioengineering
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: mastering the latest achievements of ecobiotechnology science, research directions and modern analytical methods effectively used in biotechnology, and formation of ideas about revolutionary developments in genetic engineering, genomics and proteomics, which are widely used as a basis for ecobioengineering and advances in molecular biotechnology.

Organization and planning of scientific research
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is: to form the ability to use theoretical and practical knowledge to set and solve research problems and to control the teaching and research activities of students in the field of biological education. The following issues are considered: educational and research activities.

Pedagogy of Higher Education
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: To provide pedagogical theories and practical strategies for effective teaching in higher education, fostering critical thinking, and academic success. The course explores instructional methods, curriculum design, assessment techniques, and classroom management strategies preparing educators to create inclusive and stimulating learning environments.

Psychology of management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Formation of knowledge about the fundamental concepts of management psychology for the practical application of the most critical aspects of management in professional interaction. Basic principles of management psychology, personality in management interactions, management of personality behavior, modern ideas, psychology of managing group phenomena, motivation, and practical reflection.

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

Biochemical processes under stress conditions
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The aim of the discipline: to study the mechanisms of adaptation in the field of biological and biochemical processes occurring in living organisms (animals, plants, microorganisms, protozoa) under stress and use of biochemical patterns to develop technologies of environmental protection bioremediation, bioprocessing and biodegradation of waste, sewage and environmental management.

Biotechnology and bioengineering: environmental aspects and food security
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline - the study of the latest achievements, directions of research and practical implementation of ecobiotechnological science, methods of quality control and biosafety of forage value of agricultural products of high biological value at all stages of production and optimization of the nutritional regime of cultivated crops and increase their productivity.

Control of energy and environmental emissions
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The aim of the discipline: the study of microbiological and ecobiotechnological approaches to the processing of industrial and agricultural waste and development of technology elements based on bioconversion in bioenergy production, development of new optimal efficient schemes of biotechnological processes and for practical skills in the production of biofuels.

Fundamentals of bioengineering and selection of microorganisms
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The aim of the discipline: to study the way of directed and continuous synthesis of target metabolites in microbial cells and practical skills of selecting strains of microbial decomposers as polyfunctional microbial preparations for treatment of polluted soils, surface and ground water and target biologically active substances using microbiological and biotechnological methods.

Green Energy
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The aim of the discipline: to study the possibilities of application of phototrophic microorganisms in bioindication, biotesting and bioremediation of various ecosystems characterized by high sorption and destructive activity against various xenobiotics and the latest technologies for obtaining target genetically engineered products for bioenergetics.

Microbial Ecology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: mastering the basics of obtaining environmentally friendly bacterial preparations for plant protection from phytopathogens. Gives an idea of the methods and objects of microbiological production of biological preparations for agriculture, in particular about obtaining bio-fertilizer based on microorganisms and methods of agronomic measures to protect soils from erosion and deflation.

Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline: study of biochemical and biophysical processes of molecular and cellular bioengineering, mastering methods of studying the structure and properties of biomacromolecules, morphology of cell and tissue functioning, methods of molecular modeling, modern approaches of synthetic biology and genetic engineering, as well as, the basic concepts of ecological genetics and ecogenetic diseases.

The ecological biology of development
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose of the discipline: study of current trends and advances in genetics and methods for indicating the genetic consequences of anthropogenic pollution of ecosystems, and integrates these new ideas into an extended evolutionary synthesis that preserves and enriches the concept of evolution by natural selection.

Data for 2021-2024 years

INTERNSHIPS

Pedagogical
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: formation of the ability to carry out educational activities in universities, to design the educational process and conduct certain types of training sessions using innovative educational technologies.

Research
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The purpose of the research practice is acquaintance with the latest theoretical, methodological and technological achievements of domestic and foreign science, with modern methods of scientific research, processing and interpretation of experimental data. During the study of course, students should be competent in: - to understand the fundamental and applied research; - to understand the level of research, the stage of scientifically-research work - planning, organization and realization; - preparation, writing, representation and review of the project; - program research, methodological and procedural sections research; - systematize the base of scientific and technical information.

Data for 2021-2024 years