VALUE ADDED COURSE
MANAGEMENT OF BIOLOGICAL
LABORATORY
(Year 2021-22)
Course Code: SOET BT-01
Course Details
School Name
Program Name
Course Name
Course Code
Offered for
Contact Hours
Offered During
Total No. of Classes
: School of Engineering and Technology
: B.Tech Biotechnology
: Management of Biological Laboratory
: SOET BT 01
: 3rd Semester
: 30 Contact Hours
: 1.08.2021 to 10.09.2021
: 30 (Lectures) – Each lecture is of 1-hour duration
Course Overview
Running a lab poses many challenges, including managing people, projects, and finances and
establishing workplace practices that encourage productivity, safety, ethics, and high employee
morale. This course will help the students to learn, acquaint and to become familiar to laboratory
equipments, chemicals and laboratory ethics and safety regulations.
Course Description
Unit 1: Introduction
Objectives and activities in laboratory. Prerequisites for establishing a laboratory. Components
and requirements for laboratory: Selection, availability, costing, usage and audit. Challenges
associated: Global vs India.
Unit 2: Management
Understanding management Issues, Ensuring management of budget/funds, infrastructure, space
design, permissions, students, timings, advertisements etc. Managing specific
facilities/rooms/space. Evaluation of laboratory. Parameters for the performance assessment of
laboratory. Stock maintenance, tracking and updation. Quality and lab maintenance: challenges
associated and their regulations.
Unit 3: Safety and Hazards
Role of instructor for laboratory and staff protection. Common hazards in laboratory. Safety
management in laboratory: with reference to general hazard, fire, chemicals, and biological
agents dead or alive. Personal protective equipment and preventive measures. Waste management
in laboratories: Selection, segregation, management and disposal.
Course Outcomes:
Upon completing the course, student would be able:
CO1. Understanding the responsibilities of managing a biological laboratory.
CO2. Students will understand the integrities of establishing a new laboratory.
CO3. Enabling students to upgrade and improve the established laboratory.
CO4. Understanding the management issues related to a functional laboratory.
Award of the Certificate: The student must attain a minimum of 60% of attendance to get the
course completion certificate.
Text Books & Reference Books:
1. Jile T. J., Complete Guide to Laboratory Safety, 5th Ed., HC Pro, USA, 2019.
2. Laboratory Work- Part 2, Cleaver- Home Press Ltd., London, 2020
3. Hill R. H., and Finster D. C., Laboratory Safety for Chemistry Students, John Wiley
& Sons Inc., USA, 2010.
Course Coordinator:
Dr. Manish Soni
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Biotechnology
Contact No.-07737166008
(Director)