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The subject intends to demonstrate to students how nature works (biological membranes) and how such principles (membrane processes) can be used for medical, water and wastewater, processing and other industries by engineering appropriate materials and systems, including facilitated transport membrane. The subject leads from nature to material science and engineering, fundamental transport principles to applications and process design with immediate relevance to the water and wastewater treatment industry where membrances are becoming a predominant process choice worldwide. The subject aims to bring science and engineering together on a number of levels such as in terms of learning from nature, applying engineering solutions to medical applications and using scientific principles to obtain engineering solutions. Computer based design module is included. Both engineering and science students will be exposed to the thinking in the other discipline.