Department of Biotechnology

Program Education Objectives (PEOs):

Ability to learn the fundamental concepts of biotechnology with advanced experimental and computational techniques.
Capacity to deal with complex problems of practical importance to society while complying with health, economical, environmental, ethical, and safety considerations.
Demonstrate professional excellence, ethics, soft skills and leadership qualities with life-long learning’s.
Graduates will be active members ready to serve the society locally and internationally.

Programme Outcomes:

Biotechnology Graduates will be able to:

Knowledge: Apply the knowledge of biology, chemistry, mathematics, science, engineering fundamentals, and an engineering specialization to the solution of complex biotechnological problems.
Problem analysis: Identify, formulate, review research literature, and analyze complex biotechnological problems reaching substantiated conclusions using first principles of biology, mathematics, natural sciences, genetics, biotechnology and bioengineering sciences.
Design/development of solutions: Design solutions for complex industrial problems and design system components or processes that meet the specified need with appropriate considerations for public health and safety, and the cultural, societal and environmental considerations.
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.
Modern tool usage: Create, select and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and modern engineering and IT tools including prediction and modeling to complex bioengineering activities with an understanding of the limitations.
The Biotechnologist and society: Apply reasoning informed by the contextual knowledge to assess societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities relevant to professional engineering practices.
Environment and sustainability: Understand the impact of the biotechnology based solutions in societal and environmental context, and demonstrate the knowledge of, and need for sustainable development. Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being at all ages is essential to sustainable development.
Ethics: Apply ethical practices and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities and norms of the engineering practice.
Individual and team work: Function effectively as an individual, and as a member or leader in diverse teams and in multidisciplinary settings
Communication: Communicate effectively on complex bioengineering activities with the healthcare / 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.
Project management and finance: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the biotechnology and management principles and apply these to one′s own work, as a member and leader in the team, to manage projects and in multidisciplinary environments.
Life-long learning: Recognize the need for, and have the preparation and ability to engage in independent and life-long learning of broadest context of technological change.

PROGRAM SPECIFIC OUTCOMES (PSOs):

To analyse and tackle the complex and diverse biotechnological problems by appropriate experimentation, simulation, data analysis and interpretation, and, provide probable solutions by applying principles of biotechnology in combination to the fundamental knowledge of basic sciences and technology.
Competence to incorporate socio-economic considerations in biotechnology practices, including the concept of sustainable development.
An ability to work together collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams to tackle multifaceted problems and pursue a bright career in biotechnology and allied areas by demonstrating professional success at different platforms within industry, governmental bodies or academia.

About Department of Biotechnology

B.Tech in Biotechnology at School of Energy Technology (PDEU) will be a unique program for future ready bioengineers. This early initiative will play a significant role that was to be played by biochemical engineers and biotechnologists in future industrial development of biotechnology-related processes and products. The Department will provide a model for an integrated approach towards education as well as research and development of various bioprocesses.

During four years of graduate studies, future biotechnologist will be educated to participate in the performance, optimization, improvement and control of many biotechnological processes. The study program is aligned with programs at renowned universities in the world and in India and follows the latest trends and the state of science in the field of biotechnology. All courses and curricula are clearly distinguishable and in good correlation with similar courses in the premier institutions within India, allowing general recognition and unimpeded mobility of students. Despite the large number of elective courses, core of the study program involves Bioprocessing plant design, Bio separation Engineering, Bioinformatics & computational methods, Chemical reaction Engineering, Bio entrepreneurship and Recombinant DNA Technology.

About the Program

Present Scenario of Biotechnology Education

In the present scenario, Biotechnology is an exciting interdisciplinary area with the potential to improve people's lives significantly. Manufacturing recombinant pharmaceuticals, tissue engineering scaffolds, disease-resistant crops, marine bioproducts, regenerative therapies like stem cell and gene therapy, and many more biotechnology products hold more significant potential to improve human health and well-being.

Future of Biotechnology and the Need for competent academic curriculum

The future of biotechnology relies more on making the technology more accessible for people in real need. Hence it's become the need of the hour to architect the next-gen academic curriculum that renders the future-ready biotechnology who are professionally competent in addressing the problems as forefront soldiers. In this context, understanding the technologies and their relevant application indeed accelerates the young mind in delivering technology-based solutions.

Bridging the Gap Through skill-based academic Curriculum

Despite the academic schedule, there is a constant need for Industry demanding skills, which needs to be satisfied by the tailor-made educational program with aggressive exposure to actual industrial setup. Skill-based knowledge has become essential and mandates the future-ready biotechnologist to synergize their problem-solving capabilities.

SCOPE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Professional occupation of graduate students is recognizable in the industry and the future engineers will be trained to work in all areas of biotechnology, Pharma, Healthcare and food industries including breweries, wine, spirit and starch factories, vinegar and dairy factories, alcohol and yeast plants, factories for producing chemicals, pharmaceutical and diagnostic products, plants for water and waste treatment.

The engineers of this profile are also able to work in universities and the project offices, research and development institutes, in organizations involved in the distribution of raw materials, equipment, products, as well as in organizations for the supervision of hygiene, sanitation and food safety.

Vision & Mission

Vision

“ To provide excellent education in industry-driven modules that stimulate young Biotechnologist to create knowledge wealth in order to produce employability while adhering to professional ethics and focusing on a sustainable environment and societal advantages. ”

Mission

To provide state-of-the-art facilities to Biotechnology students with a focus on skill development, creativity, innovation, and strengthening leadership characteristics.
To develop creative minds via mentoring, excellent education, and research in order to construct a value-based, sustainable society.
To provide an inspiring atmosphere for young faculty and staff by offering a safe work environment, openness, professional ethics, and accountability, allowing them to lead the department in the appropriate spirit.
To collaborate with academic and industry partners at the national and international levels to address societal challenges of greater importance.
To instill a culture of continuous learning among faculty by encouraging them to participate in professional development programmes and to address social, economic, and environmental issues.

Head of the Department

"PROVIDING ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS FOR HEALTH CARE SECTOR"

Dr. Sachidanand Singh
Associate Professor & Head
PostDoc (USA), Ph.D, M.Tech.,B.Tech.
Email : biotechhod@pdpu.ac.in , Sachidanand.singh@spt.pdpu.ac.in

Areas of Interest: Plant Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, Network Biology, Bone Disorders etc.

Brief Profile: Dr. Sachidanand Singh is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Biotechnology at the School of Energy Technology, PanditDeendayal Energy University. With over 13 years of experience in teaching, administration, and research, he holds a B.Tech in Biotechnology, M.Tech in Bioinformatics, and a PhD, with postdoctoral experience from Ohio State University's College of Pharmacy, USA.
His research interests encompass Plant Biotechnology, metagenomics, Systems Biology, Network Biology, Micro RNA-based studies, Expression Data Analytics, Next-generation Sequencing, and Statistical Genetics.
In addition to teaching subjects such as Genomics and Proteomics, Microarray and Image Analysis, Drug Design, and Molecular Modeling, he has undertaken various administrative roles, including Head of Internal Quality Assurance Cell and Dean of Allied Sciences at previous Universities.
Dr. Singh has published over 60 research and review articles in peer-reviewed journals, holds 9 Patents (4 granted), and has completed one SERB-funded project along with two University research grant projects. He has received numerous awards for his research and teaching methods, organized conferences and workshops, and served as an invited speaker at various institutions worldwide.
He has guided 36 B.Tech and 10 M.Tech projects, supervised 3 PhD students, and edited 6 books under Springer and Taylor and Francis publishing groups. Additionally, he has collaborations with Mendel University Czech Republic, Lund University Sweden, and Monash University Australia.

Message From Head of Department

"PROVIDING ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS FOR HEALTH CARE SECTOR"

It gives an immense pleasure to introduce the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) of PanditDeendayal Energy University, the integral part of the School of Energy Technology.

The Department of Biotechnology adopts a philosophy of Discovery Learning to Generate Knowledge through Experience and Innovative Ideas. DBT focuses on comprehensive course curriculum with immense practical exposure to the students which enable them take up challenging professional careers in various fields such as Health Sector, Pharmaceutical Industry, Enzyme Technology, Agriculture, Computational Data Science etc. Apart from this the comprehensive course structure capacitate the students to deal with problems pertaining to Health, Industry and Agriculture.

DBT believes in building strong interaction with the academia as well as with industry in order to serve society in a better way. Such interaction fosters new and existing partnerships essential for quality R&D studies, developing the state of the art research infrastructure, avenues for professional development of faculty and students, updates in the current trends in technology and research.

UG program of DBT is further committed to produce the class of engineers and technologists with competitive professional skills including computations, experimental as well as design skills. Department is having Experienced and energetic faculties dedicated to impart the quality education to students and train them to develop the skill sets like team work, problem solving abilities etc.

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Department of Biotechnology
School of Energy Technology
Pandit Deendayal Energy University,
Raisan, Gandhinagar - 382426
Gujarat, India

Faculty

Dr. Sachidanand Singh, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biotechnology,
School of Energy Technology
Email Id: Sachidanand.singh@spt.pdpu.ac.in
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Dr. Sivaramna Dhanasekaran
Assistant Professor
Department of Biotechnology,
School of Energy Technology
Email Id: Sivaraman.Dhanasekaran@sot.pdpu.ac.in
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Dr Pradeep PS
Assistant Professor
Department of Biotechnology,
School of Energy Technology
Email Id: Pradeep.PS@sot.pdpu.ac.in
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Dr.Giftson J Senapathy
Department of Biotechnology,
School of Energy Technology
Email Id: giftson.senapathy@spt.pdpu.ac.in
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Dr.Nisha Singh
Department of Biotechnology,
School of Energy Technology
Email Id: Nisha.singh@spt.pdpu.ac.in
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