Bioengineering

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Aware of the basis of organic chemistry, basic organic compound classes, their characteristics, evolution and practical use of organic compounds.

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Classes of organic compounds and IUPAC system of nomenclature. Alkanes and organohalogen compounds. Alkenes and alkynes. Aromatic compounds. Alcohols and phenols. Ethers. Aldehydes. Ketones. Carboxylic acids and derivatives of carboxylic acids. Amines. Organoelement compounds. Mechanisms of organic reactions.
Students must attend at least 70 % of the scheduled practical sessions and at least 50 % of theoretical lectures. Students are required to complete all scheduled laboratory work.

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To indoctrinate with fundamentals of of microbiology: scope of microbiology, characracteristics of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms, growth, culturing and metabolism of bacteria, microbial genetics, main reseach methods, classification of microorganisms; ecology and application of microbes in industry.

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The diversity of microorganisms and their distribution in nature. Eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, comparison of structure.
Archaebacteria and Eubacteria. Systematics of microorganisms. Propagation and growth conditions of microorganisms, methods for their cultivation, physiology of icroorganisms. Metabolism of microorganisms, biosynthesis. Ecology, symbiosis and evolution of microorganisms. Application of microorganisms in industrial microbiology.
Students must attend at least 70 % of the scheduled practical sessions and at least 50 % of theoretical lectures. Students are required to complete all scheduled laboratory work.

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Introduce the principles of programming, the Python programming language, teach how to work with Python objects and packages and to use Python for biological data analysis.

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Due to the increasing amount of data worldwide – particularly biological Big Data – there is a growing demand for programming skill. Python is a programming language great for beginners that also has become especially popular for use in scientific fields. This course familiarizes students with basic principles of programming with Python programming language, with focus on biological data.
Students must attend at least 80% of the time scheduled practical lectures and at least 50 % of theoretical lectures.

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To form a student’s knowledge system of the business to practically apply this knowledge to the relationship between market players, to disclose the harmony of market players interests arising in their business relationship, ensuring the creation of the added value.

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Business basics course analysed various business concepts, reveals the basic of economic and business concepts, categories, and creation of business value, business management steps and processes. Students are introduced to the external and internal factors predetermining the entrepreneurship, benefits and challenges of the various sectors of the economy and business organization, and of legal types of business, business financing sources and financial aid opportunities for business creation and development, risk factors affecting the business and risk mitigation techniques are analysed in the course.
Students must attend at least 60 per cent of the seminars and at least half of the lectures at the scheduled times.

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To provide knowledge and develop skills to be able to analyze problematic situations and look for alternative solutions, assessing possible social and environmental consequences, to familiarize with the solution of safety problems.

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The legal regulation of human safety is introduced. Natural and technogenic hazards, their nature, mechanisms of impact on humans and possible consequences of exposure are examined. Knowledge of reducing the consequences of exposure to humans is provided. The management of professional risk is analyzed. Students are required to complete all scheduled laboratory work. Theoretical lectures are mandatory for first-cycle I-III year full-time students. More than half of the lectures must be attended during the semester.

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Acquaint with philosophical ethics and fundamental ethical problems and concepts. Transmit a knowledge of ethical foundations, principles and systems. Foster critical judgement and the capacity for logical, reasoned discussion. Encourage a sense of values.

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Students learn about basic ethical schools and systems, fundamental issues of deontological and teleological ethic. Historical developement of ethical thought, periods such as Early Asian, Greece and Romain, medievvial, Reneissance, New Age and modernism. The main ethical issues are discussed: good and evil, principle of morality and free will, person as a goal in itself, notion of dignity, conscience, norm and morality, grounding morals in athority and discourse, notion of virtue, happiness and meaning of life and etc. Analyzed texts and philosophic al arguments os themost significant scholars of the field (Plato, Aristotle, Kant).
Students must attend at least 60 percent of the seminars and at least half of the lectures at the scheduled times

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Raise a culture of thinking and the ability to automate the logic of technical knowledge and they can be applied in practice of engineering.

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The course covers the studies of thinking from the point of view of their structure and form (statements, concepts, reasoning and arguments). There are some elements of mathematical logic provided. Theoretical presentation is aimed at most at practical thinking problems that demand everyday training for formal logical thinking, ability to model, discuss, draw generalizations and conclusions, make decisions.
Students must attend at least 60 percent of the seminars and at least half of the lectures at the scheduled times

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The aim of the course is to introduce the theoretical and practical aspects, issues and applications of public communication.

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Public Communication course aims to introduce personal branding, corporate communication, communication with clients and internal communication, the students who have chosen studies of engineering sciences, computer sciences, technology sciences, mathematics sciences. Students learn how to present themselves and their ideas, better speak in public, to make good and convincing points, to better use the internet and social media for their professional goals, also to understand cross-cultural communication. The importance of media channels, messages and communication to target audiences are also introduced in the course. Through practical tasks for personal branding, students will learn how to adopt public ethics, protocol standards. In this course an approach of learning by doing is combined with theoretical analysis and students’ self-reflection. The practical part of the course consists of active participation in discussions during different exercises, case studies as well as preparation and presentation of public speeches and presentations.
Participation in at least 60% of the scheduled exercises is mandatory. Lecture attendance is at least 50%

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Aware of the biologically important organic substances (proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, DNA and RNA, bioreguliators).

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Chemistry and bioorganic chemistry of amino acids, peptides and proteins. Carbohydrates, monosaccharides, polysaccharides, glycosides. Components of nucleic acids, DNA and RNA. Lipids, steroids, terpenes. Naturally occurring biologically active compounds. Structure determination methods of bioorganic molecules.
Students must attend at least 70 % of the scheduled practical sessions and at least 50 % of theoretical lectures. Students are required to complete all scheduled laboratory work.

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The aim is to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the fundamental principles of chemical thermodynamics and kinetics to develop their ability to apply this knowledge in the analysis and modelling of biochemical, biophysical, and bioengineering processes.

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The module explores the fundamental laws of chemical thermodynamics, elements of statistical thermodynamics, as well as equilibrium conditions and their significance in biological and engineering systems. It addresses the thermodynamic principles governing chemical, biochemical, and biophysical processes, phase equilibria, surface phenomena, adsorption, dispersed systems, and the thermodynamic aspects of electron and ion transport in living systems.
Students must attend at least 80% of the time scheduled practical lectures and at least 50 % of theoretical lectures.
Students must attend 100% of the time scheduled laboratory work.

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Present the methods of modeling of biological systems, to teach modeling with the standard Wolfram Mathematica and Excel programs.

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Historical and philosophical review of modeling; modeling software (Maple use in modeling). Recurrence and differential equations of growth. Numerical methods for problem solving. Interpolation and regression. Interaction of populations. Enzyme kinetics (Henri-Michaelis-Menten model, King-Altman method, kinds of inhibition). Nonlinear chemical kinetics. Statistical models in biology. Course project – review of articles or modeling of biological phenomena.
Students must attend at least 70% of the time scheduled practical work.

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To introduce the students the importance of individuals’/families’ finance management.
To give for students necessary knowledge about personal finance management principles and methods, saving, investment and borrowing possibilities and instruments.

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Personal finance management course deals with finance and investment theories implementation for person’s (families) financial decision making, including such spheres as consumption, saving, borrowing, investment, retirement planning, insurance services, funding of real estate purchasing and tax plans.
The course covers interpretation of families budget, balance, cash flows formation and estimation, applying of these financial statement to motivate financial decisions; valuation of individual financial ratios, selection of financial instruments for achieving of set long and short term goals; examination of consumption, saving, investment and borrowing decision making, investment strategy, presentation of retirement planning strategies, methods of financial resources management in various stages of life cycles.
Students must attend at least 60 per cent of the seminars and at least half of the lectures at the scheduled times.

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To provide students with the comprehensive knowledge on copyrights and related rights, as one of the types of intellectual property while dealing with the legal framework in Lithuania and other countries, to acquire skills to analyze the theoretical and practical problems in the copyright law and to expand students’ capacity for self-absorption in this field.

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The module involves the exploration of copyright rights and related rights among other types of intellectual properties, development of copyright law and its sources in Lithuania and other countries, the peculiarities of different types of copyrights and related rights, their subjects, objects, protection and the responsibility of copyright law infringements.
Students must attend at least 60 per cent of the seminars and at least half of the lectures at the scheduled times.

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To introduce a student with the peculiarities of the scientific style, the requirements for the terms, the principles of terms regulation, the regularities of Professional language, To teach to write and edit a scientific text.

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Standard language: its functional styles and substyles. Written and spoken language. Public and non-public language. Special and professional language. Terms as the basis of a professional language. Structural characteristics and parameters of a scientific text. Composition of a scientific text. Linguistic analysis of final works for the Bachelor`s and Master`s Degree. Participation in at least 60% of the scheduled exercises is mandatory.
The academic style and its place in the system of functional styles is analyzed. The differences of spoken and written language, the public and non-public language features are discussed. A detailed analysis of the terms concept, types, requirements, structure, terminology management techniques is presented. The focus on the analysis of scientific language expression patterns and disadvantages of scientific text composition features.

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To introduce to the major compounds of the living organisms, their characteristics and metabolism.

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Biomolecules and cells. Major compounds of living organisms: proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, carbohydrates, mineral compounds, and water. Their structure, properties, and functions. Major metabolic and energy pathways.
Students must attend at least 70 % of the scheduled practical sessions. Students are required to complete all scheduled laboratory work.

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The goal is to provide knowledge about cell structure and functioning, structure of the genome, its functioning and regulation, basics of compounds traffic in the cell, signalling pathways and their regulation, cell cycle and its control, cells interactions; introducing into some modern techniques used in cell biology.

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The Molecular and Cell Biology course provides knowledge about cell as a basic functional unit of living organisms, cell processes and their control, complexity of biological systems. The module explains postulates of cell theory, prokaryotes and eukaryotes differences, fundamentals of genome functioning emphasizing gene expression regulation in eukaryotes. The course provides theoretical and practical knowledge about cells endomembranous system and cytoskeleton, the functioning and origin of the organelles and their interrelationships, basics of proteins sorting and transport, molecular chaperone and ubiquitin/proteosome system functioning; examines the issues of cellular-matrix interactions and matrix structure, intercellular and intracellular signalling; regulation of eukaryotic cell cycle. The course provides practical skills of eukaryotic cells cultivation and experimental manipulations.
Students must attend at least 70 % of the scheduled practical sessions. Students are required to complete all scheduled laboratory work.

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Numerical methods applied to biotechnology engineering problems. Use of computational tools such as MATHCAD and EXCEL to solve biotechnology engineering problems. Statistical methods.

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Bioreactor design and analysis, batch reactor, plug flow and packed bed bioreactors. Imperfect mixing. Biological waste water treatment. Separation of insoluble particles. Filtration. Chromatography.
Students must attend at least 70 % of the scheduled practical sessions.

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To introduce the main biotechnology processes and operation principles of the most important apparatuses.

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During the course, the methods and equipment of water purification are reviewed. Sterile filtration for preparation of sterile solutions is analysed in detail. A lot of attention is dedicated for endoproducts isolation. A detailed presentation of process automation and management is made (sensors, pumps, valves). Liofilization process and equipment are briefly discussed. During the course, students learn to create an equipment scheme for exclusion and purification of a defined biotechnological product and learn to perform comparative analysis of biotechnological equipment.
Students must attend at least 70 % of the scheduled laboratory work. Students are required to complete all scheduled laboratory work.

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The aim of this course is to introduce the fundamentals of engineering enzymology and develop students’ ability to analyze enzyme-catalyzed reactions (kinetics, inhibition, thermodynamics), and apply this knowledge to enzyme stability, immobilization, and basic reactor design for industrial and medical applications.

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This course introduces engineering enzymology, focusing on how enzymes are analyzed and adapted for practical use. It covers enzyme classification and nomenclature, structure-function relationships, and the fundamentals of Michaelis-Menten kinetics, including how to design kinetic experiments and interpret data. Students will learn enzyme inhibition and activation, two-substrate reaction kinetics, and the role of thermodynamics in enzyme-catalyzed processes. The course also addresses enzyme stability and inactivation, immobilization methods, and how mass transfer influences performance in enzymatic reactors. Finally, real industrial and medical applications are discussed to connect theory with biocatalyst and process design.
Students must attend at least 70 % of the scheduled practical sessions.

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Introduction to the biochemical analysis methods in biochemistry, medicine, food quality control and environmental protection.

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The course mainly focuses on biochemical recognition process and its implementation in different analytical methods. Spectral and electrochemical methods and their application in analysis of biomolecules, as well as enzymatic analysis methods, methods of biomolecules immobilization and methods of immunoanalysis are analyzed in detail. A lot of attention is paid for application of statistical methods in laboratory.
Students must attend at least 70 % of the scheduled practical sessions. Students are required to complete all scheduled laboratory work. Student have to attend not less then 70 % theory lectures.

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To enable students to practice in silico bioanalysis using open biological databases, and familiarize students with fundamental bioinformatics algorithms and their application.

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Bioinformatics is becoming essential to the work of every biologist. The course introduces the aims and objectives of bioinformatics, familiarises students with structures and functions of DNA and proteins, and demonstrates different ways of finding, comparing, and predicting different biological sequences and structures.
Students are required to complete all the laboratory activities scheduled.
Student have to attend not less then 70 % theory lectures.

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The objective is to provide students with the fundamental principles of chromatography, including liquid chromatography methods and their applications.

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In this course, students learn about modern liquid chromatography techniques and their classifications. Chromatographic methods are analyzed based on their separation mechanisms and potential applications.
Students must attend at least 80% of the time scheduled practical lectures.
Students must attend 100% of the time scheduled laboratory work.
Student have to attend not less then 70 % theory lectures.

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The main purpose of the course is to assimilate the concept of gene engineering and understand the practical possibilities of implementation of gene engineering.

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The fundamentals of gene engineering investigate structure of prokaryotic and eukaryotic genes, regulation of gene expression; characteristics and structure of vectors; enzymes involved in gene engineering process; construction of recombinant DNA and introduction into tested organism as well as methods of gene detection; theoretical and practical basis of isolation, purification, qualitative and quantitative analysis of recDNA.
Students must attend at least 70 % of the scheduled practical sessions. Students are required to complete all scheduled laboratory work. Student have to attend not less then 70 % theory lectures.

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Awareness of the environmental biotechnology purposes, concepts and principles and the use of contaminated environmental cleaning

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Pollutants. Risk assessment. Microorganisms and biodegradation. Technologies of pollutants decontamination. Bioreactors. Treatment of polluted water bodies. Treatment of wastewater. Treatment of polluted soil. Decontamination of solid waste, composting. Plants for pollutant treatment.
Students must attend at least 70 % of the scheduled practical sessions. Students are required to complete all scheduled laboratory work.

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To introduce with the most recent scientific and industrial achievements in the pharmaceutical biotechnology field.

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This course will focus on the possibilities of recombinant DNA technology in biomedical field with emphasis on the technological and technical aspects of biotech drugs.
Students must attend at least 80% of the time scheduled practical lectures.
Students must attend 100% of the time scheduled laboratory work.

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Introduction of microbial technology’s principles, methods and main product’s production technology, mathematical modeling and optimization of biotechnological process’s.

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Microbiological technology principles. Fermentation technology: raw material, bioagents, bioreactors, process management and control. Basic product extraction methods and equipments. Producing technologies of main industrial products (ethanol, amino acids, organic acids, enzymes, polysaccharides, microbial proteins).
The basic knowledge of biotechnological process’s mathematical modelling and optimization.
Students must attend at least 70 % of the scheduled practical sessions. Students are required to complete all scheduled laboratory work.

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To provide students with the pharmaceutical dosage forms manufacturing industry: technological processes, equipment, manufacturing specifications.

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This course introduces students to the principles, technologies and good manufacturing practices for the production of dosage forms and drug delivery systems. The course introduces the application of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical principles, product design, formulation, manufacturing, compounding and clinical application of different dosage forms in patient care. It also covers the regulations and standards governing the manufacture and formulation of medicines.
Students must attend at least 70 % of the scheduled practical sessions. Students are required to complete all scheduled laboratory work.

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The final thesis / project topic literature review preparation.

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Final work / project topic selection. Final work / project goal’s purpose and objectives formulation. References thesis /
project topics study, analysis and review of training.

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To provide knowledge on ethical issues in research, life and death, biotechnology and environmental and ethical legislation.

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The Bioethics course addresses ethical issues in research, biotechnology, bioengineering and biomedicine, bioethical approaches to the environment and engineering solutions. Students are introduced to the laws and directives governing the use of cells, tissues, organs and laboratory animals in scientific experiments and the participation of humans in clinical trials. Students gain knowledge of the ethical norms and legal regulations of genetic engineering, organ and tissue cloning, transplantation, body reconstruction, birth control and euthanasia.
Students must attend at least 70 % of the scheduled practical sessions.

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To give the underlying knowledge about the fundamentals of immunology: the components and functions of the immune system; molecular mechanisms of the immune response; the roles and importance of the immune system in different human diseases.

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Students must attend at least 70 % of the scheduled practical sessions. Students are required to complete all scheduled laboratory work.

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To provide knowledge about production processes, used equipment, materials and product qualities.

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Information about mechatronics, production methods is provided. Digital production and its processes are introduced. Engineering materials, product quality, CAD, CAM, CAE, etc. are discussed. production processes.

Students must participate in at least 50% of the lectures and complete at least 75% of the practical works in the scheduled time.

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Final thesis assimilation on selected experimental methods according to the subject. Intented final work’s research accomplishment.

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To know and understand the final work task better, to clarify the objectives of the work, collected all the literature and made
Review. Final thesis Analysis of experimental methods.

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Teach students to relate and apply the acquired theoretical knowledge with practical, consolidate and improve the general education
program and completed the framework of special education knowledge, skills and abilities in practical professional activities.

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Apprenticeships are consituent of the learning process. Student’s professional practice can be accomplished in any a Lithuanian or foreign companies, agencies, institutes and organizations. The student chooses the place of practice under the guidance of enterprises, institutions, practices which can make the list, but when it does not – self-seeking student work placement with an agreement of the Department’s appointed leader. Formulate specific objectives guide practice before the start of practice, having regard to the potential provider’s practice, in agreement with the student and the host organization representative. The students prepare an individual report of the practice. If it is possible the student may collect data for the final theses.