I have taught CHE 201, Material and Energy Balances, during Fall, 2004-2007 and Spring,
2005-2006. We use Felder and Rousseau, 3rd ed.

I am currently developing two new courses that address the barriers of terminology and
experimental techniques that hamper chemical engineers and chemical engineering students
during their first experience with biological systems. The first course, "Biomolecular
and Cellular Engineering", will provide an introduction to the ways in which chemical
engineering analyses are applied to biomolecular and cellular processes. Emphasis will
be placed on the molecules and complexes involved in gene expression regulation and
cell-cell communication. The course will be coordinated as possible with relevant
seminar series, including Science at the Edge, Quantitative Biology Modeling Institute,
and Biochemistry department seminars, to include the latest research. The course will
be open to undergraduate and graduate students, who will work jointly throughout the course.

The second course, "Biomedical Engineering Laboratory", will be held in alternate years
to the laboratory course. It will be taught with Professor Christina Chan and will be
modeled on a successful biochemical engineering course taught by Professor R. Mark Worden.
In this course, groups will be assigned an advisor for the term and a research question
in the advisor's area. Experimental methods will be demonstrated to each group. The methods
will vary based on the research questions but might include electrophoresis, PCR, cloning,
western blotting, ELISAs, biochemical assays, and genomics and proteomics methods.
The students will also be taught basic computational systems biology methods as an
introduction to current analytical strategies for large-scale biological data sets.
The groups will then design and implement research plans to answer their assigned
research questions.

Professor Walton's Homepage