Multimedia assisted instruction in upper level engineering courses

The central idea in an engineering biotechnology course is to treat, within a single course, all significant scientific and engineering issues that encompass converting genes, the starting material, to a final product that is manufactured for the market place. In the authors´ view, it is important to tell the whole story in a single course with sufficient depth so that the relevancy and significance of the emerging area of biotechnology can be communicated effectively. To assist them in covering a broad topic area, they resorted to binding the topic thematically and also developed self-standing multimedia lectures which are distributed on a CD-ROM