Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERING

Department: Bioengineering

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite(s): BIOE 391 or permission of instructor

Description: This course will examine how pharmaceutical active agents function in the body and how they are delivered to the body. Topics to be covered include the kinetics of drug absorption and tissue distribution along with the transport phenomena associated with the release bioactive agents. Focus will be placed on mathematical modeling of pharmacokinetic and diffusional processes. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: BIOE 625.