Biotechnology

Biotechnology Department

Biotechnology Engineering at G B Pant Engineering College was founded as an academic unit during the academic session 2005-2006, and with the objective of integrating life sciences with engineering to develop cutting-edge technology through research, training and technical innovation. The department at the time of establishment offered only Masters in Biotechnology. The department started B. Tech program during the academic year 2010-2011 that provides a strong foundation in Biotechnology which can lead students to both industry as well as research/academia. The program spans over a period of four years divided into 8 semesters. It also offers a set of core multidisciplinary and specialized elective courses.

In addition, the department also runs M.Tech. Program in Biotechnology with an intake of 18 students. From the academic session 2013-2014 the college started offering Doctoral courses in the same field.

The department has highly qualified, experienced and dedicated faculty to provide both classroom teaching and practical instructions. Apart from fundamental research, the goals of the department are also targeted to meet the demands of the biotechnology based industries. The department has initiated efforts to establish advanced research laboratories in all the thrust areas.

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Vision

To be a national hub of biotechnology, providing the right combination of research and development with dedication, transparency and creativity of truly academic research for developing better medical and healthcare facilities.

Mission

Provide high quality education in Biotechnology for both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
To provide students with an understanding of subject specific knowledge as well as critical, analytical and flexible approach to problem solving in the field of biotechnology with enhanced practical and professional skills.
Prepare students effectively for professional employment as well as doctoral studies in the field of biotechnology.
Prepare students to deal and solve real life problems applying their technical knowledge and skills and provide proper medical and healthcare solutions for a healthy life.

PROGRAM EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES (PEOs)

Preparation: To prepare the students to succeed in industry and to provide necessary platform to pursue higher studies, entrepreneurship and research keeping the pace with global standards.
Core Competency: To provide a strong foundation in applied biosciences to solve the problems in environmental, food, agriculture, biochemical and biomedical engineering.
Breadth: To train the students in application aspects of engineering through various laboratories, industrial trainings to comprehend, analyse, design novel products and provide solutions to the real life problems.
Professionalism: To inculcate professional and ethical attitude, effective communication skill, team work through activities like multi-disciplinary courses, seminars, group discussions, colloquia, etc.,
Learning Environment: To provide suitable academic ambiance and motivate the students for self-study and life-long learning.

PROGRAM OUTCOMES (PO's)

Engineering knowledge: Apply the knowledge of mathematics, science, engineering fundamentals, and an engineering specialization to the solution of complex engineering problems.
Problem analysis: Identify, formulate, review research literature, and analyze complex engineering problems reaching substantiated conclusions using first principles of mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering sciences.
Design/development of solutions: Design solutions for complex engineering problems and design system components or processes that meet the specified needs with appropriate consideration for the 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 engineering activities with an understanding of the limitations.
The engineer and society: Apply reasoning informed by the contextual knowledge to assess societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities relevant to the professional engineering practice.
Environment and sustainability: Understand the impact of the professional engineering solutions in societal and environmental contexts, and demonstrate the knowledge of, and need for sustainable development.
Ethics: Apply ethical principles 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 engineering activities with the 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 engineering and management principles and apply these to one’s own work, as a member and leader in a 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 in the broadest context of technological change.

PROGRAM SPECIFIC OUTCOMES (PSO's)

PSO1: Graduates will be able design, perform experiments, analyze and interpret data for investigating complex problems in biotechnology Engineering and related fields.
PSO2: Graduates will be able to justify societal, health, safety and legal issues and understand his/her responsibilities in biotechnological engineering practices

Curricula and Syllabi

Biotechnology Department

Academic Timetable

M. Tech. Second Year

Download M. Tech. IIIrd Semester Time Table 2022-23

Department Faculty

Head of Department

Associate Professor

Assistant Professor

Laboratory Facilities

Cell and Molecular Biology Lab

BOD Incubator
Gel Electrophoresis
PCR System 9700
Transilluminator
Millipore
Kjeldahl Distillation Unit
Table-top Centrifuge

Microbiology Lab

BOD Incubator
Fume Hood
Vortex
ELISA Reader
Digital pH Meter
Spectrophotometer
ELISA Micro plate Reader
Weighing Balance
Microprocessor Based pH Meter
Oven
Fermenter
Rotary Flash Shaker
Automated Cell Counter
Microscopes
Laminar Air Flow

Incubator

Biochemistry lab

Bacterial Incubator
Cooling Microfuge
Laminar Air Flow
UV-Vis Spectrophotometer
Vortex
Water Bath Rectangular
Hot Air Oven
Table-top Centrifuge
Magnetic Stirrer
Vacuum Rotary Evaporator

Working lab

All Glass Double Distillation Unit
BOD Incubator
Hot Air Oven
Rotary Vacuum Evaporator
Shaker Water Bath
CO₂ Incubator
Orbital Shaking Incubator
Muffle Furnace
Microscope

Academic Activities

Event Organized

S. No.	Title	Name of Speaker	Date of event	Nature of activity
1	Singing Competition	——————	14^th November, 2019	Singing
2	Interactive Session with Alumni	Mr. Aayush Praveen sir	30^th October, 2019	Educational
3	Graffiti Competition	———————-	1^st December, 2019	Graffiti Art
4	Tree Plantation Drive	——————–	15^th June, 2020	Plantation
5	International KALKRITI Art Competition	———————-	3 July to 15 August, 2020	Poster Competition
6	Industrial Internship on “Current Practices in Pharma biotech”	Dr. Sandeep Shiromani & Mr. Amar Dhule	17th to 28th august 2020	Webinar
7	Workshop on “Campus to Career- Webinar Series for Graduates”	Multi-speakers	19th to 23rd October 2020	Webinar
8	Webinar on “Made in India COVID vaccines: India’s contribution to world”	Dr. Ashwini Kumar	February 28, 2022	Webinar
9	Science Day celebration – • Online Poster Competition • Online Slogan Competition • Online Logo Competition	—————–	February 28, 2022	Poster/ Slogan/ Logo Competition
10	Webinar on “Laboratory Biosafety & Security”	Dr. Shraddha Chauhan	24th July,2022	Webinar
11	Webinar on “Lignin Valorization- Towards a Sustainable Future”	Dr. Piyush Parkhey	25th May,2022	Webinar
12	Webinar on “GC & its application in Food Research”	Dr. Batul Diwan	May 26, 2022	Webinar
13	Tech Fest – • Meditation Session • Quiz Competition • Poster Presentation • Tech Advocate	Baba Shri Gagai Nath Ji	May 28, 2022	Meditation Session
14	Tree Plantation Drive	—————–	5th June 2022	Tree Plantation Drive
15	Webinar on “IPR Awareness Programme”	Mr. Subrat Sahu	August 24, 2022	Webinar
16	Food Festival – “Rasyaan” • Poster Competitions • Food Fest • Musical Skit	————————	23rd September 2022	Food Festival
17	Rangoli Competition	———————-	15^th March 2023	Theme based art
18	Creative Photography: A Low Light Perspective	Mr. Virendra Adhikari	25^th and 26^thMarch 2023	Photography workshop

Departmental Activity- Faculty Development Program

S. No.	Title	Date of event	Mode
1	TEQIP III sponsored one-week short term course on “Technological Innovations and Challenges in Biomedical Instrumentation”,	23 November – 27 November, 2020	Online
2	TEQIP III sponsored two-week online international faculty development program on “Bioinformatics, Big Data and Drug Discovery – Prospects & Challenges”,	September 14 – September 24, 2020	Online

Research/Publications

2023

Jitendra Parmar, Satyendra Singh Chouhan, Vaskar Raychoudhury, “A machine learning based framework to identify unseen classes in open-world text classification” , Information Processing and Management Volume :60 / 1-18 / 2023

P. K. Keserwani, M. C. Govil, E. S. Pilli , “An Effective NIDS Framework based on a Comprehensive Survey of Feature Optimization and Classification Techniques” , Neural Computing and Applications Volume :35 / 4993-5013 / 2023

Rahul Saxena, Spandan Pankaj Patil, Atul Kumar Verma, Mahipal Jadeja, Pranshu Vyas, Vikrant Bhateja, and Jerry Chun-Wei Lin, “An Efficient Bet-GCN Approach for Link Prediction” , International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI) Volume :8(1) / 38-52 / 2023

Soumya Ranjan Nayak, Deepak Ranjan Nayak, Utkarsh Sinha, Vaibhav Arora, Ram Bilas Pachori, “An Efficient Deep Learning Method for Detection of COVID-19 Infection using Chest X-ray Images” , Diagnostics Volume :13 / 00-00 / 2023

Jitendra Goyal, Mushtaq Ahmed, Dinesh Gopalani, Neelu Pandey, Faisal Ahmed, “An Efficient Fuzzy-Based Vaccine Distribution Using Blockchain Technology” , (Accepted)International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems Volume :13 / 12 / 2023

Atul Kumar Verma, Rahul Saxena, Mahipal Jadeja, Vikrant Bhateja and Jerry Chun-Wei Lin, “Bet-GAT: An Efficient Centrality based Graph Attention Model for Semi Supervised Node Classification” , Applied Sciences (Special Issue: Integrated Artificial Intelligence in Data Science) Volume :13 / / 2023

Gopal Behra and Neeta Nain, “Collaborative Filtering with Temporal Features for Movie Recommendation System” , Procedia Computer Science Volume :218 / 1366-1373 / 2023

Vijay Kumar Sharma, Namita Mittal, Ankit Vidyarthi, Deepak Gupta, “Exploring Web-based Translation Resources Applied to Hindi-English Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval” , ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing Volume :1 / 19 / 2023

Patents

“BLOCKCHAIN AND IOT BASED ELECTRONICS HEALTH RECORD DEVICE”, 1.Jitendra Goyal 2. Dr. Mushtaq Ahmed 3.Dr. Dinesh Gopalani 4.Dr. Aditi Sharma 5.Akash Yadav , Reg.No. 372608-001 [The Patent Office, Government of India] Awarded Dt.23-12-2022

“Trusted and secure configuration and validation of data for public IoT devices using block chain technology”, Dumka, Ankur; Ashok, Alaknanda; Sharma, Aditi; Sarkar, Achyuth; Kumar, Vivek; Kumar, Naresh; Bansal, Pravesh Kumar; Ahmed, Mushtaq and Baheti, Prashant Kumar , Reg.No. 2020103294 [IP Australia (Australian Govt.)] Patent Granted Dt.23-02-2020

” THE SMART GAIT ANALYZER”, Dr Rajesh kumar, Chandra Prakash, Dr Namita Mittal , Reg.No. .201711014157 [Govt. of India] Patent Granted Dt.21-04-2017

Research Projects

#	Project Investigator	Title of the project	Funding Agency	Amount (Lacs)	Duration
1	Dr. Ashish Kumar Tripathi	Automated Maze Leaf Disease and Weed Detection in Extreme Weather Conditions Using Deep Neural Networks.	Doremon Labs	5.04	2023-2024
2	Dr. Namita Mittal	Developing a user-friendly Chatbot system as an interface for information extraction in Natural language	ISRO- RACS, Department of Space	25.30	2023-2026
3	Dr. Arka Prokash Mazumdar	Scalable and Energy Aware Robust Recommendation Aggregation in IoT Trust Management	Data Security Council of India	4.72	2023-2023