Ben Gurion University of the Negev
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Ben-Gurion University is a major centre for teaching and research, with over 17,000 students enrolled in the faculties of Engineering Sciences, Health Sciences, Natural Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, the School of Management and the Kreitman School of Advanced Graduate Studies. It also includes the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev, the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, the Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies and the Ben-Gurion Research Institute. The University has campuses in Beer-Sheva, including the Marcus Family Campus, and campuses in Sede Boqer and Eilat.
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The Faculty of Engineering Sciences
The Faculty’s vision is highly collaborative, with many of our researchers engaged with colleagues, both in Israel and abroad, in interdisciplinary projects in medicine, computer sciences, physics, mathematics and chemistry. Degree-granting programmes in new technologies such as Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Electro optics in particular have generated academic programmes, interdisciplinary centres and research laboratories whose work extends beyond traditional department boundaries.
For 33 years, the Faculty of Engineering Sciences has educated leaders of all areas of technology while establishing an intellectual environment capable of challenging and stimulating the most creative, profound and restless minds in the field. Thousands of engineers and researchers have gone out from the Faculty of Engineering to influence and advance all branches of industry.
Department of Biotechnology Engineering
The Department offers undergraduate and graduate programs based on multidisciplinary training provided by a diverse faculty. The four-year undergraduate program offers students a unique combination of engineering, life sciences and physical sciences, along with courses on biotechnology ethics, business in biotechnology and related fields. In their last year, students learn hands-on the realities of research in a specialized laboratory of international reputation. Students eager to focus their education at an earlier stage sometimes opt to begin this project – which can be either an academic engineering project or work in the biotechnology industry – after their second year. At the conclusion of their studies, our students are typically qualified to work in both a multidisciplinary environment and a narrowly focused one – a rare quality that the Department encourages.
Graduate programs – two years for the MSc, four years for the PhD – are based on research by degree candidates in a Department laboratory under supervision by a faculty researcher. The choices for research in the department are very broad, with a concentration in the “high tech” areas of biotechnology, such as tissue engineering, biosensors, biochips, nanobiotechnology, genetic engineering and biomaterials, as well as traditional biotechnological processes of bioreactor cultivation and separation processes.
The research is expected to be on an internationally competitive level and published in high-impact factor journals. Our graduates have moved on to post-doctorate and faculty posts at prestigious universities and to significant positions in both large pharmaceutical and start-up companies. Often our graduates and faculty have become entrepreneurs through creating spin-offs from innovations developed in the department.
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