BIOB2200 Medical Microbiology and Immunology Course description

Pass or fail.

Master's degree in engineering science or related fields.

The topics covered in this course aims at giving the students the necessary skills to be evidence-based and includes lectures on:

• The basics of evidence-based engineering
• Empirical methods and their use in engineering disciplines
• How to critically evaluate and give rational argumentations
• How to collect, evaluate and use practice-based experience
• How to collect, evaluate and use research-based evidence
• How to conduct empirical studies
• How to aggregate evidence
• How to design good judgment and decision-making processes

To illustrate the topics and exemplify the use of evidence-based decision processes, selected engineering topics, such as software development methods, cost estimation, project management and workplace organization, will be used as cases. The course contains mandatory deliveries, exercises and student presentations.

Work and teaching methods include lectures, assignments (individually and in groups) and laboratory work.

Most teaching activities take place in the laboratory, where findings of microorganisms and their antibodies, if any, from different types of sample material are examined. Relevant theory is linked to practice through lectures, individual assignments and various forms of group assignments in addition to self-study.

In order to be permitted to take the exam, the following must have been approved:

• a minimum of 90 per cent attendance in laboratory work
• a minimum of 80 per cent attendance in scheduled group work
• laboratory reports in accordance with specified criteria

Individual practical exam, 3 hours.

No aids are permitted.

A-F.

All answers are assessed by two examiners. An external examiner is used regularly, at a minimum of every third completion of the course. When selecting answers for external evaluation, a minimum of 10 percent of the answers shall be included, with no fewer than 5 answers. The external examiner’s assessment of the selected answers shall benefit all students.

7 credits overlap with the course BIO2200 Medical Microbiology and Immunological Diagnostics