Delaware Technical and Community College: Stanton Campus

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Biotechnology is offered at the Georgetown and Stanton campuses

Food Safety at the Georgetown Campus

Biological Sciences is offered at the Georgetown and Stanton campuses

InnovATEBIO Member(s)
  • Lauren Witherite
  • Lakshmi Cyr
  • John McDowell

Articulation

Courses in this program transfer to

We have articulation agreements for Biological Sciences with University of Delaware and Delaware State University 

 

Students Employed by

Agilent, Chesapeake PERL, Clene Nanomedicine, DuPont, Fraunhofer Institute, Gene Editing Institute, Gore, Incyte, QPS, SDIX, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, University of Delaware Sequencing and Genotyping Center

Program Description

The Biotechnology Associate Degree Program students acquire a strong foundation of knowledge and skills to perform complex laboratory procedures and analyze data for research and testing purposes.  The program prepares students for positions such as a biotechnician for a variety of laboratory settings in the medical, environmental, industrial, and agricultural fields.

The curriculum includes four semesters of science, math, computer, and core courses.  Program Graduate Competencies identify major learning goals related to a specific program of study and  identify the knowledge and skills students will have when graduating to be successful in their chosen field.  Major learning goals include:

  1. Apply knowledge of the theories and principles of biology and biotechnology.
  2. Employ good laboratory practices (GLP) and safety guidelines to conduct common laboratory operations.
  3. Employ standard laboratory documentation practices for data management and laboratory notebooks.
  4. Utilize chemical principles and apply mathematics in the preparation of laboratory solutions.
  5. Analyze samples by common quantitative and qualitative techniques.
  6. Perform separation techniques on biological samples and interpret results.
  7. Perform laboratory techniques used in biotechnology.

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Program Address

Delaware Technical & Community College Stanton Campus
400 Stanton-Christiana Rd
Newark, DE 19713
United States


Financial Support
Award Type(s)
  • NSF-ATE
  • Other
Award Description(s)
  • DUE 1700660, Technician Training in Gene Editing
  • Delaware INBRE
  • DUE 2000696,  Technician Training in CRISPR-based Gene Editing

School Partner(s)

MOT Charter School, Newark Charter School, Conrad Schools Of Science.  

We have an articulation agreement for Biotechnology with Newark Charter School. We offer some courses (like Anatomy and Physiology, Medical Terminology that are not listed in our course sequence sheet for the Biotechnology and Biological science Programs)) in dual enrollment format to Conrad Schools Of Science

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