Agricultural Biotechnology Engineering
Duration: 8 semesters
Modality: Face-to-face
Call: Annual
Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Mexicali.
+52 (686) 523-00-88
+52 (686) 523-00-79
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Who graduates from the Engineering educational program
in Agricultural Biotechnology you can
perform in:
Public sector:
- Government agencies related to the natural resource management
- Secondary and higher level educational institutions
- Research centers in the area of agricultural sciences and biotechnology
Private sector:
- Companies dedicated to the production, analysis and transformation of food
- Companies focused on solving environmental problems
- Companies oriented to the marketing of agricultural inputs
- Health diagnostic laboratories in the agricultural area
As an independent professional:
- Advice, consulting, training and evaluation of projects in the different areas of the agroindustrial sector
- Analysis of economic feasibility for the creation of biotechnology companies
- Create and promote biotechnology companies
Train undergraduate professionals in the agricultural, livestock and agroindustrial areas, participating in the improvement of production processes through the application of biotechnological tools for the socioeconomic development of the region and the country.
1
Design and promote strategies that favor the production of functional foods with nutraceutical properties through the development and application of biotechnological processes.
2
Improve agricultural, livestock and agroindustrial practices based on biotechnological alternatives that reduce damage to the environment and human health.
3
Implement the use of innovative biotechnological tools in the production processes of the agricultural and agroindustrial sector.
4
Apply biotechnological processes to transform agricultural, industrial and urban solid waste into value-added products.
It must possess the following characteristics:
Basic knowledge of:
- Biology
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Mathematics
- Calculus
- Computing
- English
Skills:
- Assertive management of oral and written communication
- Analysis and decision-making capacity
- Logical-mathematical thinking
- Use of information technologies
- Management of basic laboratory material
Attitudes and values:
- Criticism
- Analysis
- Creativity
- Proactivity
- Collaborative
- Teamwork
- Honesty
- Commitment
- I respect
- Environmental responsibility
- Develop and apply biotechnological processes that allow an increase in the production of functional foods with nutraceutical properties, through microbiological and physicochemical techniques, ensuring food quality and safety, with responsibility and innovation.
- Generate biotechnological alternatives to improve practices agricultural, livestock and agroindustrial, as well as mitigating damage to the environment and human health, based on the current applicable national and international regulations and the responsible waste management, with honesty and work interdisciplinary.
- Incorporate innovative biotechnological tools in the agricultural, livestock and agroindustrial industries based on preliminary diagnoses to impact their productivity and product quality, with objectivity and respect for the environment.
- Take advantage of agricultural, industrial and domestic waste through biotechnological processes and in accordance with current and applicable regulations to transform it into products with added value, with social responsibility.
- In addition, you must demonstrate English proficiency at A2 level.
Curriculum
| Subject | Credits | Mandatory |
|---|---|---|
| Chemistry | 6 | ✓ |
| Oral and Written Communication | 6 | ✓ |
| Mathematics | 6 | ✓ |
| Information technology | 6 | ✓ |
| Agrobiotechnological Principles | 8 | ✓ |
| Ethics and Social Responsibility | 5 | ✓ |
| Basic English | 6 | ✓ |
| Organic Chemistry | 6 | ✓ |
| Research Methodology | 6 | ✓ |
| Differential and Integral Calculus | 6 | ✓ |
| Cell Biology | 6 | ✓ |
| General Microbiology | 6 | ✓ |
| Agricultural Economy | 6 | ✓ |
| Technical English | 6 | ✓ |
| Analytical Chemistry | 6 | ✓ |
| Biochemistry | 6 | ✓ |
| Statistics | 6 | ✓ |
| Physics | 6 | ✓ |
| Molecular Biology | 6 | ✓ |
| Administration | 5 | ✓ |
| General Botany | 6 | |
| Edaphology | 6 | |
| Animal Physiology | 6 | |
| General Genetics | 6 |
| Subject | Credits | Mandatory |
|---|---|---|
| Physicochemistry | 6 | ✓ |
| Thermodynamics | 6 | ✓ |
| Experimental Designs | 6 | ✓ |
| Plant Physiology | 6 | ✓ |
| Applied Molecular Biology | 6 | ✓ |
| Food Microbiology | 6 | ✓ |
| Agroindustrial byproducts | 6 | ✓ |
| Material and Energy Balances | 5 | ✓ |
| Food Analysis | 6 | ✓ |
| Plant Biotechnology | 7 | ✓ |
| Bioengineering | 6 | ✓ |
| Livestock Biotechnology | 6 | ✓ |
| Unit Operations | 5 | ✓ |
| Food safety | 6 | ✓ |
| Food Technology | 7 | ✓ |
| Environmental biotechnology | 6 | ✓ |
| Industrial Biotechnology | 6 | ✓ |
| Plant Nutrition | 6 | |
| Marketing of Agricultural Products | 5 | |
| Meat Technology | 6 | |
| Milk Technology | 6 | |
| Ecotoxicology | 6 | |
| Sustainable Development | 6 | |
| Fruit and Vegetable Technology | 6 | |
| Process Design and Optimization | 6 | |
| Phytoregulators | 6 |
| Subject | Credits | Mandatory |
|---|---|---|
| Entrepreneurship and Agribusiness Development | 6 | ✓ |
| Quality control | 7 | ✓ |
| Bioprocess Engineering | 7 | ✓ |
| Entrepreneurs | 6 | |
| Forestry Biotechnology | 6 | |
| Bioethics | 6 | |
| Bioinformatics | 6 | |
| Nanotechnology | 6 | |
| Agroecosystems | 6 | |
| Ethnopharmacology | 6 | |
| Fruit Oenology | 6 | |
| Innovation and Development of New Products | 6 |
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