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. Also, to master the basics of professional and pedagogical culture and values of the chosen profession, providing integration of science, higher education and labor market.
ON3- Practice the latest techniques and technologies to solve fundamental problems in biology, genetics, biotechnology, plans and organizes the stages of scientific research. To master the basics of professional-pedagogical culture and knowledge of higher school didactics, theories of education and education management.
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

Biochemical processes under stress conditions
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose 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.

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.

Biotechnology and bioengineering: environmental aspects and food security
  • Number of credits - 5
  • 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.

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form practical skills in various types of speech activity in a foreign language. The training course builds the ability to perceive, understand and translate information in the modern global space, participate in scientific events to test their own research. The discipline is aimed at improving competencies in accordance with international standards of foreign language education.

History and Philosophy of Science
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form a holistic systemic understanding of philosophy as a special form of cognition of the world, its main sections, problems and methods of their study in the context of future professional activity. The training course forms the theoretical and methodological basis of research work.

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 formulate the topic, goals and objectives of scientific research; methodology of theoretical and experimental research; analysis of theoretical and experimental research and formulation of conclusions and proposals. Undergraduates will master innovative activities, techniques for implementing and evaluating the effectiveness of scientific research, as well as the rules for registration and protection of research results.

Pedagogy of Higher Education
  • Number of credits - 5
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form the ability to teach in universities and colleges based on knowledge of higher school didactics, theory of education and management of education, analysis and self-assessment of teaching activities. The training course is aimed at studying the trends in the development of education and the Bologna process. The course will help you master teaching and curatorial skills, various strategies and methods of teaching and education.

Psychology of management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to provide scientific training of highly qualified specialists based on the study of fundamental concepts of management psychology, creating prerequisites for a theoretical understanding and practical application of the most important aspects of the field of management in the process of professional formation. The course is aimed at studying the patterns of development and functioning of mental processes, the basics of effective interaction and conflict resolution, self-development and self-presentation.

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.

Biofertilizers and biostimulators based on phototrophic microorganisms
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The aim of the discipline is to familiarize with different areas of biotechnology, where the main groups of phototrophic microorganisms can be applied, their activity on the scale of the biosphere and features of photobiotechnological processes, as well as the synthesis of biologically active substances for the production of biopreparations and biostimulants.

Biological recycling of waste into biofuels
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the course is to form ideas about the strategy of biotechnological approaches to processing industrial waste.The course will address the development of technology elements based on the bioconversion of industrial waste in the production of bioenergy, to develop optimal effective schemes for the use of biotechnological processes in the production of biofuels

Biomonitoring and biological methods of ecotoxicant control
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The aim of the discipline is to form systemic ideas of methods and ways of ecosphere protection, to analyze the possibilities of application of biological, chemical and physico-chemical methods of remediation, to acquire skills of work in the sphere of bioindication and biotesting, as well as to form the ability to develop a strategy of biomonitoring of ecotoxins in various components of the environment.

Bioremediation of aquatic and soil ecosystems
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to form a systematic understanding of methods and ways of cleaning soil and water ecosystems from various contaminants using biological methods, implementation of engineering and ecological solutions for rational environmental management and protection of the environment.

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.

Genetics and variability of microorganisms
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline - to develop an understanding of the molecular basis of heredity and genetic variability of microorganisms, their genetic apparatus organization, and the study of various types of variability, including mutagenesis, genetic recombination, adaptation to environmental factors, xenobiotic metabolism, and toxicology, to comprehend their roles in ecosystems and to develop bioengineering and environmentally sustainable solutions.

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.

Industrial environmental monitoring
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the discipline is to analyze the impact of factors arising from human activity on the natural environment, the rules of accounting and assessment of the state of environmental objects and environmental safety of territories, as well as the formation of knowledge on the effective application of microbiological processes and biotechnological methods in the aquatic ecosystem.

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 - Formation of practical, educational-methodical skills of conducting lectures, seminars, creatively apply scientific, theoretical knowledge, practical skills in teaching activities, conduct training sessions in the disciplines of the specialty; own modern professional techniques, methods of training, use in practice the latest theoretical, methodological advances, make educational, methodological documentation.

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