Two branches that get filed as one, and why that costs you money
B.Tech Biotechnology and B.Tech Biomedical Engineering are usually written into the same procurement file because both have the word “bio” in front of them. That is where the trouble starts. They share perhaps a quarter of their equipment. The rest is completely different money going to completely different suppliers.
Biotechnology is a wet-lab branch. Its spend is dominated by sterilisation, incubation, separation, optical measurement and a bioprocess hall at the top end. Biomedical Engineering is an electronics and mechanical branch pointed at the human body. Its spend is dominated by biosignal trainers, simulators, transducer kits, oscilloscopes and materials testing frames, plus a workshop for hospital equipment maintenance.
The mistake I see most often is a single line item reading “Bio lab equipment, lump sum” in a first-year budget, which then gets split badly in year two when the syllabus actually arrives. Build the two lists separately from the start, even if one department head signs for both.
This page gives you both lists, category by category, with what each item actually teaches and a quantity for a normal batch. It also says plainly which of these categories Scientico manufactures and which it does not, because pretending to cover everything wastes your tender cycle and mine.
How the two equipment lists differ
| Dimension | B.Tech Biotechnology | B.Tech Biomedical Engineering |
|---|---|---|
| Core lab type | Wet lab, aseptic work, living cultures | Electronics bench, instrumentation, mechanical test floor |
| Dominant cost centre | Bioreactors, cell culture suite, analytical instruments | Patient simulators, biosignal trainers, materials testing frames |
| Utilities to plan early | Steam or autoclave load, DM water, fume extraction, CO2 gas lines, drainage | Clean single-phase power, earthing quality, isolation transformers, bench space per student |
| Consumable burden | High and recurring: media, reagents, glassware, plasticware | Low and mostly repairable: electrodes, leads, gel, spare boards |
| Biosafety exposure | Real, governed by the biosafety level assigned to the work | Limited, mostly electrical safety and simulated signals |
| Calibration and safety records | Autoclave validation records, balance and pH meter calibration | Electrical safety analyser records, simulator verification records |
| Where the two overlap | Biomaterials testing, biosensors, biomechanics of tissue, sterilisation practice, basic microscopy | |
Plan the utilities before the equipment. A bioreactor that arrives before the compressed air line, or a cell culture room that arrives before the CO2 cylinder manifold, sits in a corridor for a semester. That single sequencing error does more damage to a lab than any specification argument.
Quantities below assume a batch of 30 students working in six groups of five, in a three-hour practical session. Scale linearly for larger intakes and adjust if your university runs two sections in parallel. Do not treat any quantity here as a regulatory figure. For intake ratios, room areas and equipment counts that a regulator will actually check, read the current official handbook from the relevant body and nothing else. Our guide to AICTE lab requirements for engineering colleges explains where those numbers live and how often they change.
B.Tech Biotechnology lab equipment list
1. Microbiology lab
This is the first lab a biotechnology department gets right or wrong. Everything downstream, meaning fermentation, molecular biology and cell culture, depends on students having learned sterile technique here.
| Equipment | What it demonstrates or trains | Standard or syllabus link | Qty for a batch of 30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horizontal laminar flow cabinet | Aseptic transfer, plate pouring, streaking, subculturing | Microbiology practical, typically semester 3 | 2 |
| Vertical laminar flow cabinet or Class II cabinet | Work where the operator needs protection as well as the sample | Governed by assigned biosafety level, see the biosafety note below | 1, level dependent |
| Vertical autoclave, 50 to 100 litre, with pressure and temperature recording | Moist heat sterilisation, load cycles, sterilisation validation records | Check the relevant IS code for the vessel class | 1 main plus 1 small portable |
| Hot air oven, 100 to 150 litre | Dry heat sterilisation of glassware and metal instruments | Check the relevant IS code | 2 |
| Bacteriological incubator | Controlled growth temperature, colony development over time | Microbiology practical | 2 |
| BOD incubator with cooling | Sub-ambient incubation, psychrophile work, BOD estimation | Environmental biotechnology practical | 1 |
| Orbital shaking incubator | Aerated broth culture, growth curve and lag phase study | Microbiology practical | 1 |
| Digital colony counter with magnifier | CFU enumeration, serial dilution arithmetic, plate count method | Microbiology practical | 3 |
| Compound binocular microscope, 100x oil immersion | Cell morphology, stained smear observation, motility | One per pair is the working minimum | 15 |
| Trinocular microscope with camera and display | Demonstration to the whole batch, image capture for lab records | Microbiology practical | 1 |
| Laboratory refrigerator, 300 to 400 litre | Media and culture storage, stock maintenance | Not a syllabus item, an operating necessity | 2 |
| Water distillation unit or DM water plant | Reagent-grade water supply, conductivity awareness | Check the relevant IS code | 1 |
| Precision balance, 0.001 g, and analytical balance, 0.1 mg | Media formulation, weighing error and its effect on results | Calibration record required for audit | 2 and 1 |
| Bunsen or spirit lamps, inoculation loop sets, glassware sets | Basic aseptic handling at every workstation | Microbiology practical | 6 sets |
2. Biochemistry lab
| Equipment | What it demonstrates or trains | Standard or syllabus link | Qty for a batch of 30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Digital photoelectric colorimeter | Beer-Lambert relationship, standard curve construction, colorimetric estimation | Biochemistry practical, first biotech semester | 6, one per group |
| Single beam UV-visible spectrophotometer | Absorbance in the UV range, nucleic acid and protein estimation | Biochemistry and molecular biology practicals | 2 |
| Double beam UV-visible spectrophotometer | Reference-corrected scanning, enzyme kinetics over time | Final-year project and PG work | 1 |
| Table-top clinical centrifuge | Basic sedimentation, supernatant and pellet separation | Biochemistry practical | 3 |
| High-speed research centrifuge | Differential centrifugation, cell lysate fractionation | Biochemistry practical | 1 |
| Refrigerated centrifuge | Temperature-sensitive protein and enzyme work | Biochemistry practical | 1 |
| Digital benchtop pH meter with electrode and buffers | Buffer preparation, titration curves, pKa determination | Calibration record required for audit | 6 |
| Thermostatic water bath, serological | Controlled-temperature incubation of reaction mixtures | Biochemistry practical | 3 |
| Magnetic stirrer with hot plate | Homogeneous mixing during reagent preparation | Biochemistry practical | 6 |
| Vortex mixer and dry bath heating block | Microtube mixing and fixed-temperature incubation | Biochemistry practical | 3 each |
| Deep freezer, minus 20 degrees C | Enzyme, reagent and sample storage | Operating necessity | 1 |
| Chromatography chambers, TLC and paper | Separation by partition, Rf value calculation | Biochemistry practical | 6 |
| Rotary evaporator | Solvent removal under vacuum, extract concentration | Biochemistry and natural products practical | 1 |
3. Molecular biology and genetics lab
| Equipment | What it demonstrates or trains | Standard or syllabus link | Qty for a batch of 30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horizontal submarine gel electrophoresis units with power packs | DNA and RNA separation by size, loading and running technique | Molecular biology practical | 4 tanks, 2 power packs |
| Vertical slab gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) | Protein separation by molecular weight, gel casting | Molecular biology practical | 2 |
| UV transilluminator with safety hood | Band visualisation, size estimation against a ladder | Molecular biology practical | 2 |
| Gel documentation system with imaging software | Image capture, densitometry, quantitative band analysis | Project work and departmental records | 1 |
| Thermal cycler (PCR) | Denaturation, annealing and extension cycles, primer design applied | Molecular biology practical | 1, 2 if group runs are required |
| Microcentrifuge, 12000 to 15000 rpm | Plasmid and DNA extraction steps, microtube pelleting | Molecular biology practical | 3 |
| Micropipette sets, variable volume, with stands | Volumetric accuracy, pipetting error and its effect on yield | Calibration record recommended | 6 sets |
| PCR workstation or dedicated laminar cabinet | Contamination control in amplification setup | Molecular biology practical | 1 |
| Deep freezer, minus 20 or minus 40 degrees C | Enzyme, primer and template storage | Operating necessity | 1 |
| Bioinformatics workstations with sequence analysis software | Sequence alignment, restriction mapping, primer design | Bioinformatics practical | 6 to 15 seats |
4. Bioprocess engineering and fermentation lab
This is where biotechnology stops being biology and becomes engineering, and it is the part of the branch closest to what we build. It also overlaps heavily with chemical engineering, so if you run both branches, read the chemical engineering lab equipment list alongside this section and share the reactor and separation units rather than buying twice.
| Equipment | What it demonstrates or trains | Standard or syllabus link | Qty for a batch of 30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benchtop fermenter or bioreactor, 5 to 7 litre glass vessel, with pH, DO and temperature control | Batch and fed-batch kinetics, sterilisation in place, control loop tuning | Bioprocess engineering practical | 1, 2 preferred |
| Airlift and bubble column reactor | Gas-liquid mass transfer, kLa determination, mixing without impellers | Bioprocess engineering practical | 1 |
| Packed bed and fluidised bed reactor | Immobilised enzyme and cell reactors, pressure drop across the bed | Bioprocess engineering practical | 1 each |
| Continuous stirred tank reactor with residence time distribution study | Ideal versus real flow behaviour, dispersion, tracer response | Reaction engineering practical | 1 |
| Plate and frame filter press | Solid-liquid separation, cake filtration, filtration constants | Downstream processing practical | 1 |
| Basket centrifuge | Centrifugal separation of biomass from broth | Downstream processing practical | 1 |
| Rotary vacuum drum filter | Continuous filtration, cake washing and discharge | Downstream processing practical | 1 |
| Ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis membrane test rig | Membrane separation, flux decline, concentration polarisation | Downstream processing practical | 1 |
| Laboratory spray dryer | Product drying from liquid feed, inlet and outlet temperature effect on yield | Downstream processing and food biotechnology | 1 |
| Tray dryer and vacuum tray dryer | Drying rate curves, constant and falling rate periods | Downstream processing practical | 1 |
| Packed distillation column | Solvent recovery, HETP, reflux ratio effect | Separation processes practical | 1 |
| Sterilisation kinetics and heat transfer setup | Thermal death kinetics, D and z value concepts, heat transfer coefficients | Bioprocess engineering practical | 1 |
| Peristaltic pumps | Sterile fluid transfer, feed control in fed-batch operation | Bioprocess engineering practical | 2 |
5. Cell culture and tissue culture lab
Plant tissue culture and animal cell culture are different rooms with different risk profiles. Plant tissue culture can usually run in a normal prep room with a laminar cabinet. Animal cell culture needs a dedicated room, a containment cabinet and a CO2 supply, and it is the single most expensive square metre in a biotechnology department.
| Equipment | What it demonstrates or trains | Standard or syllabus link | Qty for a batch of 30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Class II biological safety cabinet | Containment of aerosols during cell handling, product and operator protection | Selection governed by assigned biosafety level | 1 to 2 |
| CO2 incubator, water jacketed | Controlled CO2, humidity and temperature for mammalian cell growth | Animal cell culture practical | 1 |
| Inverted tissue culture microscope with phase contrast | Monolayer confluence, contamination checks, cell morphology in flasks | Animal cell culture practical | 2 |
| Plant tissue culture racks with lighting and timer | Photoperiod control, callus induction, micropropagation stages | Plant biotechnology practical | 2 racks |
| Haemocytometer sets and cell counter | Cell counting, viability calculation, seeding density | Animal cell culture practical | 6 |
| Liquid nitrogen cryocan, 10 to 35 litre | Cryopreservation principles and cell bank maintenance | Operating necessity, handling training required | 1 |
| Membrane filtration assembly for media | Filter sterilisation of heat-sensitive media components | Cell culture practical | 2 |
| Dedicated autoclave for the culture suite | Separated sterilisation load, waste decontamination before disposal | Institutional biosafety requirement | 1 |
B.Tech Biomedical Engineering lab equipment list
6. Biomedical instrumentation lab
Half of this lab is an electronics bench that would not look out of place in an ECE department. If you are equipping both, read the ECE lab equipment list for B.Tech and buy the oscilloscopes, function generators and power supplies as one combined line item. The same applies to the measurement bench in the electrical engineering lab list.
One point worth stating clearly. Everything in this table is a trainer or a simulator, meaning it produces or processes simulated biosignals for teaching. None of it is intended for use on patients, and it should never be described that way in a tender specification.
| Equipment | What it demonstrates or trains | Standard or syllabus link | Qty for a batch of 30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ECG simulator, multi-lead, with selectable rhythms | Waveform generation, lead configurations, signal characteristics | Biomedical instrumentation practical | 3 |
| ECG trainer kit with stage-wise test points | Amplification, filtering and display chain traced signal by signal | Biomedical instrumentation practical | 3 |
| EEG trainer or simulator | Low-amplitude biopotential acquisition, frequency bands, artefact recognition | Biomedical instrumentation practical | 2 |
| EMG trainer with electrode kit | Muscle potential acquisition, rectification and envelope detection | Biomedical instrumentation practical | 2 |
| Instrumentation amplifier trainer | Differential gain, CMRR measurement, input impedance effects | Biomedical instrumentation practical | 6 |
| Active filter trainer for biosignal bands | Low pass, high pass and notch filtering of 50 Hz interference | Biomedical instrumentation practical | 6 |
| Isolation amplifier and optical isolation trainer | Patient isolation principle, leakage current control in design | Biomedical instrumentation practical | 3 |
| Photoplethysmography and pulse oximetry trainer | Optical absorption at two wavelengths, SpO2 calculation principle | Biomedical instrumentation practical | 3 |
| Non-invasive blood pressure measurement trainer | Oscillometric and auscultatory principles, cuff pressure waveform | Biomedical instrumentation practical | 3 |
| Temperature and respiration transducer trainer | Thermistor and thermocouple response, respiration rate derivation | Transducers practical | 3 |
| Biosensor demonstration kit, enzymatic electrode type | Transduction of a biochemical reaction into an electrical signal | Biosensors practical | 2 |
| Multi-parameter patient monitor trainer | Integration of several biosignal channels, alarm logic, display systems | Biomedical instrumentation practical | 2 |
| Digital storage oscilloscope, 100 MHz, function generator, regulated power supply | Shared measurement bench for every experiment above | Shared with electronics labs | 6 sets |
7. Medical imaging principles lab
Be realistic about this one. An undergraduate imaging lab teaches principles, reconstruction mathematics and image processing. It does not contain a working CT scanner. Anything involving an ionising radiation source is regulated separately in India by the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, and you must check the current AERB requirements and obtain clearance before you specify it. Do not assume a supplier will handle that for you.
| Equipment | What it demonstrates or trains | Standard or syllabus link | Qty for a batch of 30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ultrasonic transducer and A-scan demonstration kit | Pulse echo principle, time of flight, acoustic impedance mismatch | Medical imaging practical | 2 |
| Ultrasonic interferometer | Velocity of sound in liquids, wavelength measurement | Physics and imaging practicals | 2 |
| X-ray principles model with cutaway tube assembly | Tube construction, kVp and mAs concepts, attenuation, no live source | Medical imaging theory support | 1 |
| Image reconstruction workstations with MATLAB, Octave or Python | Filtered back projection, Radon transform, artefact simulation | Medical image processing practical | 6 to 15 seats |
| DICOM viewer and image processing software with sample datasets | Windowing, segmentation, registration, measurement on real image sets | Medical image processing practical | Site licence |
| Optical fibre transmission kit | Light guiding principle behind endoscopy, numerical aperture, loss | Optoelectronics practical | 2 |
| Imaging phantoms, resolution and contrast type | Spatial resolution, contrast detail, image quality assessment | Medical imaging practical | 1 set |
8. Biomechanics lab
| Equipment | What it demonstrates or trains | Standard or syllabus link | Qty for a batch of 30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Universal testing machine, 10 to 50 kN, with grips for small specimens | Tensile behaviour of implant alloy coupons and bone analogues, stress-strain curve | IS 1608 and ISO 6892-1 for metallic specimens | 1 |
| Torsion testing machine | Shear behaviour of long bone analogue rods and fixation devices | Check the relevant IS code | 1 |
| Fatigue testing machine | Cyclic loading life of implant materials, S-N curve concept | Check the relevant IS code | 1 |
| Impact testing machine, Charpy and Izod | Toughness and brittle behaviour of implant-grade metallic specimens | IS 1757 and ASTM E23 for Charpy, IS 1598 for Izod on metals | 1 |
| Strain gauge and load cell trainer | Gauge factor, bridge circuits, force measurement in prosthetic design | Instrumentation practical | 3 |
| Force platform and gait analysis kit | Ground reaction force, stance and swing phase, centre of pressure | Biomechanics practical | 1 |
| Goniometers and motion analysis camera setup | Joint range of motion, kinematic chain analysis | Biomechanics practical | 2 sets |
| Vibration study apparatus | Natural frequency, damping and resonance applied to prosthetics and support structures | Mechanical vibration practical | 1 |
| Ergometer or treadmill with instrumentation interface | Workload and physiological response measurement in exercise studies | Human physiology practical | 1 |
9. Biomaterials testing lab
| Equipment | What it demonstrates or trains | Standard or syllabus link | Qty for a batch of 30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardness testers, Brinell, Rockwell and Vickers | Surface hardness of implant alloys and coated surfaces | ASTM E10 Brinell, ASTM E18 Rockwell, ASTM E92 Vickers | 1 each or one combined unit |
| Universal testing machine with film and polymer grips | Tensile and compressive behaviour of polymer biomaterials and scaffolds | Check the relevant IS code for polymer specimens | Shared with biomechanics |
| Metallurgical microscope with image analysis | Microstructure of implant alloys, grain size, phase identification | Materials science practical | 2 |
| Specimen preparation set: cutting, mounting, polishing, etching | Sample preparation discipline before any microstructure claim | Materials science practical | 1 set |
| Melt flow index tester | Flow behaviour of medical-grade polymers during processing | Check the relevant IS code | 1 |
| Contact angle goniometer | Surface wettability, a first-order predictor of biological interaction | Surface science practical | 1 |
| Muffle furnace and vacuum oven | Heat treatment, ash content, controlled drying of polymer samples | Materials practical | 1 each |
| Rotational viscometer | Viscosity of biological fluids and polymer solutions, shear thinning | Rheology practical | 1 |
| Corrosion test setup for simulated body fluid immersion | Degradation of metallic implants in a physiological environment | Check the relevant IS code | 1 |
| Thermal conductivity and heat transfer apparatus | Thermal behaviour of biomaterials and tissue analogues | Heat transfer practical | 1 |
10. Hospital equipment maintenance lab
This is the most employable lab in the branch and the one most often left out of the first procurement. Graduates who can trace a fault in a suction apparatus and produce an electrical safety record get hired by hospital biomedical departments and by equipment service companies. Graduates who have only simulated ECG waveforms on a screen do not.
| Equipment | What it demonstrates or trains | Standard or syllabus link | Qty for a batch of 30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical safety analyser | Earth continuity and leakage current measurement, safety testing routine | Check the current edition of the applicable safety standard | 2 |
| Defibrillator analyser | Delivered energy verification and synchronisation timing checks | Service and maintenance practical | 1 |
| Infusion pump analyser | Flow rate accuracy and occlusion pressure verification | Service and maintenance practical | 1 |
| NIBP and SpO2 simulators | Verification of monitoring channels against a known reference | Service and maintenance practical | 1 each |
| Fault-simulation trainer boards for common hospital devices | Structured fault finding, symptom to cause reasoning, repair discipline | Service and maintenance practical | 3 |
| Cut-section and working models: autoclave, centrifuge, suction apparatus, nebuliser | Internal construction and serviceable parts of routine hospital equipment | Service and maintenance practical | 1 each |
| Insulation and earth resistance testers | Installation-level safety checks in a clinical environment | Check the current edition of the applicable safety standard | 2 |
| Service bench: soldering and rework stations, digital multimeters, tool kits | Hands-on repair capability, component-level replacement | Workshop practical | 6 sets |
| Equipment history and calibration record system | Documentation discipline that hospital biomedical departments actually run on | Useful evidence for accreditation files | 1 system |
Biosafety governs part of this list, and it is not our call to make
Several items above, in particular the safety cabinets, the autoclave arrangement, the waste decontamination route and the layout of the cell culture suite, are determined by the biosafety level assigned to the work your department intends to carry out. That assignment is made by your institutional biosafety committee under the applicable national guidelines, not by an equipment supplier and not by a web page.
What that means practically: get the biosafety level classification agreed and written down before you finalise the specification for cabinets, incubators and the culture room. Buying a horizontal laminar flow cabinet when the work requires operator containment is an expensive error to discover after installation, because the cabinet cannot be upgraded.
This page deliberately gives no handling procedures, no decontamination protocols and no reagent methods. Take those from your institutional biosafety committee and the current official guidance, and keep the approval record in your lab file. Auditors ask for it.
What Scientico actually makes for these two branches, and what it does not
Scientico India has manufactured laboratory and engineering teaching equipment from its own works in Ambala, Haryana since 1993, and exports to more than 60 countries. The catalogue is 331 products across 19 categories. Quality system is ISO 9001:2015 certified, with CE conformity documentation on applicable models. Scientico is not an ISO/IEC 17025 or NABL accredited laboratory, and no page on this site should be read as claiming that. If your tender needs accredited calibration, read our explanation of the NABL and ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation route and route that scope to an accredited body.
Here is the honest split for the two branches on this page.
| Category | Scientico position |
|---|---|
| Bioprocess reactors, fermenter support rigs, mass transfer and reaction engineering setups | Manufactured. This is core teaching-equipment work under the ProZessix and ThermoFlux families. |
| Downstream separation: filter press, basket centrifuge, membrane test rigs, filtration and drying units | Manufactured. HydraNexis covers separation and filtration, NutriForge covers drying and food and bio product processing. |
| Heat transfer, sterilisation kinetics, fluid handling rigs | Manufactured. ThermoFlux and FluidoSurge families. |
| Biomechanics and biomaterials mechanical testing: UTM, hardness, impact, torsion, fatigue, vibration | Manufactured. FortiTestX for materials testing, FrixoDynamics and VibranoX for dynamics and vibration work. |
| Medical and nursing training simulators, cut-section models, hospital equipment maintenance trainers | Manufactured. See the medical and nursing training equipment we manufacture and the nursing lab equipment range. |
| General wet-lab support: hot air ovens, water baths, incubators, basic autoclaves, laboratory furniture | Partly covered, model dependent. Ask for the current model list against your specification rather than assuming. |
| Research-grade analytical instrumentation: double beam UV-Vis of research specification, HPLC, FTIR, XRD, gel documentation systems, thermal cyclers | Not manufactured. Buy these from specialist analytical instrument makers. |
| Class II biological safety cabinets, CO2 incubators, ultra-low temperature freezers | Not manufactured. These are containment and life-science cold-chain products from specialist suppliers. |
| Clinical-grade ECG, EEG and patient monitoring devices for use on patients | Not manufactured and not supplied. Scientico builds trainers and simulators for teaching only. |
I would rather you read that table and exclude us from three of your BOQ sections than have you discover the gap after award. In practice, most biotechnology and biomedical departments run a split tender: one package for teaching and training equipment, another for analytical instrumentation, a third for consumables. Scientico bids the first package. Say so in your specification and your evaluation gets easier.
Turning this list into a BOQ that survives evaluation
A few points that decide whether your file goes through cleanly.
Write specifications, not brand names. A specification that names one manufacturer’s model number invites a single-source objection. Write the performance parameters, the range, the accuracy and the accessories, then let bidders map their models to it. Our checklist of lab equipment tender documents for government colleges lists what usually has to accompany the technical bid.
Get the MAF question settled before the bid date. If your tender asks for a manufacturer authorisation form, the timeline for obtaining one is not zero and dealers frequently underestimate it. Read how the manufacturer authorisation form works in a lab equipment tender before you finalise the bid calendar.
Decide your procurement channel early. Direct tender, GeM and rate contract each produce a different specification format. If you are buying through GeM, the GeM lab equipment procurement guide explains how category selection changes what you can actually specify.
Keep the accreditation file in mind while you buy, not after. Purchase orders, installation reports, calibration certificates and utilisation registers are the evidence that gets asked for later. Our notes on NBA lab documentation and on NAAC lab equipment documentation under the criteria describe what to file from day one. Whatever numeric thresholds apply to your programme, confirm them against the current official handbook of the body concerned, because they change between cycles.
Budget in phases. A biotechnology department rarely needs the bioreactor hall in year one, and a biomedical department rarely needs the full hospital maintenance bench before the third semester. Our engineering lab equipment budget guide and the first procurement guide for a new engineering college set out a sequencing that matches syllabus delivery.
Related lists worth reading alongside this one
Biotechnology first-year students share the first-year physics and chemistry lab equipment list with every other branch, so that spend is common. Biomedical students draw on the mechanical engineering lab equipment list for the strength of materials and dynamics experiments, and on the EEE lab equipment list for machines and measurement work. If your campus also runs a civil programme, the civil engineering lab list and the soil mechanics lab list follow the same format.
For campuses running allied health and life-science programmes next door, the B.Pharm pharmacy lab equipment list and the B.Sc Nursing lab equipment list overlap meaningfully with biotechnology on the wet-lab side and with biomedical engineering on the simulator side. The pharmacy lab equipment category and the engineering training equipment catalogue show the current model range. Diploma and trade institutions should start instead from the polytechnic diploma lab equipment list or the trade-wise ITI lab equipment list.
Specification sheets and catalogues are in the downloads section. Buyers outside India can find local representation through the distributor locator. Export orders ship CIF or FOB from Nhava Sheva or Mundra.
Getting a quotation against your syllabus
Scientico works on a quotation basis with no public price list, because equipment specifications for these two branches vary widely between universities and a published figure would mislead you. Send the practical syllabus for the semesters you are equipping, your batch size and the room dimensions, and you will get a specification-matched list with quantities, marked clearly to show which lines we manufacture and which you should source elsewhere. That second column is the part most suppliers leave out.
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