155: 411 INTRODUCTION TO BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING Fall 1998
Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University
Instructor: Professor Prabhas V. Moghe
Homework, Exams, Grades:
• The most effective way to learn this course material is through reading and solving numerical problems assigned as part of homework. Submitting homework within prescribed deadlines is mandatory. Considerable weightage of the overall course grade will be given to the performance on homeworks.
• There will be two in-class exams. For the most part, these will be either open-book tests, or will allow limited access to notes. The intent is not to require excessive memorization of equations, but promote a logical approach to solving problems based on fundamental concepts in the field.
• The breakdown of grading structure is as follows:
Mid-term exam (30%)
Final exam (40%)
Homework problems (30%)
• Grades are assigned entirely at the discretion of the instructor. Grades are not generally assigned based purely on the statistics of class performance. The following guidelines are adhered to as much as possible:
Outstanding performance: A+ (4.0) (Note: Graduate School does not recognize A+, but the instructor does!)
Excellent/very good performance: A (4.0)
Fairly good performance: B+ (3.5)
Reasonable performance: B (3.0)
Mediocre: C+ (2.5)
Poor, Well below average: C (2.0) or less