Program Educational Objectives (PEOs)

PEOs describe the career and professional accomplishments that graduates are expected to achieve within 3 to 5 years after graduation.

PEO-1 (Core Competency & Career Progression): Graduates will establish successful careers in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, food, bioprocess, and allied bio-industries, or pursue advanced higher education and research in reputed academic institutions globally. 

PEO-2 (Problem Solving & Technical Innovation): Graduates will apply foundational principles of mathematics, biological sciences, and chemical engineering to identify, formulate, and solve complex biological and industrial engineering problems.

PEO-3 (Professional Ethics & Social Responsibility): Graduates will conduct professional activities with high ethical standards, taking into account safety, bioethics, intellectual property, environmental sustainability, and societal impact. 

PEO-4 (Leadership & Entrepreneurship): Graduates will demonstrate effective communication, teamwork, project management, and entrepreneurial capabilities to drive innovation in interdisciplinary settings. 

PEO-5 (Lifelong Learning): Graduates will engage in continuous professional development and lifelong learning to adapt to technological advancements in fields like AI in biotechnology, computational biology, and advanced bioprocessing.

Program Outcomes (POs)

1. Engineering Knowledge: Apply the knowledge of mathematics, science, engineering fundamentals, and an engineering specialization to the solution of complex engineering problems.

2. Problem Analysis: Identify, formulate, review research literature, and analyze complex engineering problems reaching substantiated conclusions using first principles of mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering sciences.

3. Design / Development of Solutions: Design solutions for complex engineering problems and design system components or processes that meet the specified needs with appropriate consideration for the public health and safety, and the cultural, societal, and environmental considerations.

4. Conduct investigations of complex problems: Use research-based knowledge and research methods including design of experiments, analysis and interpretation of data, and synthesis of the information to provide valid conclusions.

5. Modern tool usage: Create, select, and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and modern engineering and IT tools including prediction and modelling to complex engineering activities with an understanding of the limitations.

6. The engineer and society: Apply reasoning informed by the contextual knowledge to assess societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities relevant to the professional engineering practice.

7. Environment and sustainability: Understand the impact of the professional engineering solutions in societal and environmental contexts, and demonstrate the knowledge of, and need for sustainable development.

8. Ethics: Apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities and norms of the engineering practice.

9. Individual and team work: Function effectively as an individual, and as a member or leader in diverse teams, and in multidisciplinary settings.

10.Communication: Communicate effectively on complex engineering activities with the engineering community and with society at large, such as, being able to comprehend and write effective reports and design documentation, make effective presentations, and give and receive clear instructions.

11. Project management and finance: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the engineering and management principles and apply these to one’s own work, as a member and leader in a team, to manage projects and in multidisciplinary environments.

12. Life-long learning: Recognize the need for, and have the preparation and ability to engage in independent and life-long learning in the broadest context of technological change.

Program Specific Outcomes (PSOs)

At the end of the Four Year Program in Biotechnology, the students will able to:

• Understand the need and apply knowledge of Biotechnology to solve problems in the areas of Medicine, Agriculture, Fermentation technology, Food processing and Environment,and develop entrepreneurial ideas.

• Demonstrate proficiency in basic laboratory skills.

• Perform, and analyse results of experiments using basic laboratory techniques in molecular biology, microbiology, recombinant DNA technology, immunology, food biotechnology and plant tissue culture.

• Ability to present their project work through written, oral, and visual presentations.

• Exhibit an ability to work independently and collaboratively.

• Get an exposure in current scientific literature, computer programs and web information pertaining to Biotechnology

• To design solutions for environment, industry and agricultural problems with appropriate biotechnological techniques.