Biological Engineering Design
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this case-study course on how biology, biochemistry, and engineering combine to create real pharmaceutical and biotechnology products. Students trace a product's path from initial idea through patents, testing, evaluation, production, and marketing. This version centers on inflammation as an underlying mechanism in cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, using it as the throughline for examining scientific and engineering decisions. The course also addresses the ethical responsibility scientists, engineers, and business executives bear for the consequences of their technology, and builds skills in written and oral communication through practice assignments. Materials include the full syllabus, case studies, and assignments as published by MIT, free to access with no certificate offered. It suits students wanting a concrete look at how lab science becomes a marketed product rather than an abstract survey of biotechnology.