About Department
- The Department maintains the legacy of providing quality education for 27 years
- The largest department having highest student strength
- One of the oldest setup for microbiological studies at Saurashtra region
Best Practices:
- Intensive course structure and integrated teaching-learning process
- Follows outcome based education (OBE) based curriculum
- Offers induction for fresher’s and remedial classes to overcome difficulties
- Integrates human values for personal development as a part of curriculum
Departmental Highlights:
- Offers an array of programs and courses in UG and PG level
- Highly qualified and motivated faculty members
- Posses excellent infrastructure and lab facilities
- Offers a range of Co-curricular, Value added courses for skill development
- Strong Alumni base. Alumni are placed in high positions in diverse fields.
Recent Updates:
- High placement record for UG and PG students
- Summer placement of students to various industries and institutes
- Participation in various Conference/Workshops etc
- Department regularly organizes inter-departmental and inter-college events for students.
Vision & Mission
Mission
The Department of Microbiology is committed to provide quality education to the students through progressive academic and research environment by nurturing scholarly progression, inquisitiveness, intellectual development and human values.
Vision
The Department of Microbiology endeavors to be a centre of excellence in microbiological studies and research in bringing prominence in the field and strive to be in the vanguard of the domain for scientific and social benefit of mankind.
Objectives
The curriculum is designed to attain the following learning goals which students shall accomplish by the time of theirpost-graduation
- This programme will enable students to acquire knowledge on thein-depth aspects of the Microbiology, Immunology, Bioprocess Technology and Molecular Biology to enable them to understand emerging and advanced concept in modern biology and help them to take their career in thisfield.
- After completion of the programme, the students will be able to acquire the necessary theoretical and practical competencies in Microbiology to enable them to undertakegainfulself-employment.
- The Programme is intended to help the students to be the innovative and versatile personalities in the field of Life Science with quality education and provide the skilled manpower required by industeries.
Graduate Attributes
Skills and ApplicationsStudents should possess skills to apply theoretical knowledge to basic applications by developing hypothesis, design, and execution of experiments and analysis of results on an individual basis.
Research and innovation: Students should be independently able to formulate research projects through literature search, finding research gaps and framing objectives in order to strive for innovation.
Collaboration and cooperation: Students should be able to identify potential collaborators and know the art of cooperation in working for common goals.
Communication:Students must be able to communicate scientific ideas as well as their beyond curriculum effectively between peers and others through various modes of communication (verbal, written, presentation etc...)
Industry preparedness: Students must be skilled with necessary technical domains and possess basic whereabouts of related industry as a part of industrial preparedness.
Program Educational Outcomes
- PEO1: Research, Numeracy and scholarship: to inculcate scientific thinking, writing and application in light of sustainable goals
- PEO2: Practice, operation and usage of modern tools and technology:To equip the students with classical and modern tools for its application in thrust areas
- PEO3: Depth and breadth of knowledge:To build in depth clarity of reasoning in theoretical and practical knowledge
- PEO4: Professional capacity and love of learning: To develop professional capacity of students for its sustenance
- PEO5: Global, moral and aesthetic sustainability: To make students able to interpret principles of ethics for their social, economic and environmental responsibilities
Program Outcomes
- PO1: Scientific Knowledge: :In depth understanding of basic and applied aspects of microbiology
- PO2: Professional efficiency: Develop inclination towards own professional goals over a wide range of career options expanding from R&D, Industrial or Govt. sector or as an Entrepreneur
- PO3: Problem analysis:Ability to retrieve biological information through data mining and data handling
- PO4: Modern tool usage: Familiarized with latest and advanced tools and techniques of biological sciences.
- PO5: Team work: Capacity to develop, employ and integrate technical and professional skills as a member of a team withholding the essence of collaboration, cooperation and integrity.
- PO6: Design/development of solution:Analysis of scientific issues across the spectrum of related disciplines
- PO7: Conduct investigations: To independently be able to formulate research projects on microbiology and allied interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary fields through literature search, finding research gaps and framing objectives in order to strive for innovation
- PO8: Communication: Acquire skills specific to microbiology and allied fields for converting information to knowledge through hypothesis, design, execution and analysis
- PO9: Design/development of solution:Capability to contribute acquired knowledge leading to find a suitable solution for an existing problem
- PO10: Ethics:Uphold the responsibility as a global citizen maintaining professional and ethical values
- PO11: Environment and sustainability: Understand microbiology as a social endeavor in context to bringing about harmony with nature
- PO12: Lifelong learning: Ability to upgrade knowledge independently and act upon means of improvement for lifelong learning
Program Specific Outcomes
- In depth understanding of basic and applied aspects of microbiology
- Develop inclination towards own professional goals over a wide range of career options expanding from R&D, Industrial or Govt. sector or as an Entrepreneur
- Ability to retrieve biological information through data mining and data handling
- Familiarized with latest and advanced tools and techniques of biological sciences.
- Capacity to develop, employ and integrate technical and professional skills as a member of team withholding the essence of collaboration, cooperation and integrity.
- Analysis of scientific issues across the spectrum of related disciplines
- To independently be able to formulate research projects on microbiology and allied interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary fields through literature search, finding research gaps and framing objectives in order to strive for innovation
- Acquire skills specific to microbiology and allied fields for converting information to knowledge through hypothesis, design, execution and analysis
- Capability to contribute acquired knowledge leading to find a suitable solutions for an existing problem
- Uphold the responsibility as a global citizen maintaining professional and ethical values
- Understand microbiology as a social endeavour in context to bringing about harmony with nature
- Ability to upgrade knowledge independently and act upon means of improvement for lifelong learning
- PSO1:Attribute pathogenesis of diseases to virulence mechanisms, outline the pathogenesis, transmission and treatment of emerging bacterial and viral infections. Recognize the role of microbiome in the overall physiology of humans. Execute antibiotic susceptibility assays and evaluate efficacy in context of antibiotic resistance. Also, implement diagnostic tests for infectious diseases
- PSO2:Formulate a hypothesis, design a research project, execute the experiments including appropriate calibrations and controls, implement appropriate methods for data collection and analyze data with appropriate statistical tools. Abstract and paraphrase scientific information, extrapolate it and present it creatively in the appropriate scientific language for verbal and non-verbal communication, using ICT tools.
- PSO3:Understand, explain and monitor processes in industries with respect to regulatory aspects, QA, QC, GLP, ISO standards and validation. Check microbial quality of bulk and finished pharmaceutical products, judge their quality and maintain records. Apply concepts in bioinformatics, proteomics, high throughput screening and pharmacogenomics for discovering new drugs
- PSO4:Recall and apply various concepts in modern Biotechnology like gene therapy, stem cell technology, 16SrRNA sequencing in fields like diagnostics, therapeutics and genetic counselling. Summarize and evaluate the biotechnological potential of fungi and algae for production of commercial products like pharmaceutics, pigments, enzymes, biofuels etc. and in processes like bioremediation and wastewater treatment. Summarize and interpret the laws for IPR, biodiversity conservation and recall the perspectives of bioethics. Implement patent searches and outline prerequisites and steps in patentability.
Scope
A microbiologist finds scope of employment in industries and research institutes other than options for higher education in the preferred field.
The following sectors require Microbiologists as professionals:
- Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory
- Biofertilizer and Agri based Products
- Academic School, UG and PG Level
- Marketing of Scientific Consumables, Equipments etc.
- Self-employed / Entrepreneur
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