PROD333-21S1 (C) Semester One 2021

Chemical and Healthcare Product Formulation 2A

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 22 February 2021
End Date: Sunday, 27 June 2021
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 7 March 2021
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 14 May 2021

Description

Unit operations for producing formulated products such as lotions, gels, colloids and suspensions, tableted and particulate materials. Scale-up and operation. Process design, simulation and economic analysis for formulated product manufacture. Batch scheduling and recipe specification. Filling and packaging operations.

Learning Outcomes

  • By the end of the course you will be able to:
  • Devise and analyse consumer and sensory evaluation trials
  • Understand some of the traditional structural packaging designs and processes available
           including consumer examples of easy opening & dosage systems and overall sustainable
           solutions
  • Devise and carry out product stability tests
  • Engage in conceptual design of fragrances, including product safety/labelling
  • Be able to define a feasible industrial process sequence for the production of a range of
           formulated product types, including identifying and addressing any areas where cultural issues
           may arise for Maori or other indigenous groups
  • Be able to use an industry standard software package to simulate a production process and
           devise a batch production schedule or continuous process sequence
  • Be able to carry out a detailed process economics analysis of a formulated product
           manufacturing process
    • University Graduate Attributes

      This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

      Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

      Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

      Employable, innovative and enterprising

      Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.

      Biculturally competent and confident

      Students will be aware of and understand the nature of biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, and its relevance to their area of study and/or their degree.

Prerequisites

Course Coordinator

Conan Fee

Course Administrator

Alison Lowery

Lecturers

Nick Emerson and Barro De Gast

Guest Lecturers

Stacey Fraser (Product Design Consultant) and Alex Bowater

Lab Technician

Khoa Tran

Assessment

1. Final exam: 25% (during final examination period, time to be confirmed)
2. Test: 10% (on material from Weeks 1 and 4-6 only.  Fifty min in Lecture Friday May 7th 11am
3. Two CAD Assignments: 15% -  
       One on Fusion 360 Solid Modelling (7.5%) to be handed out Week 3, submission due 5.00 pm
       Fri Apr 30th.
       One on InDesign (7.5%) to be handed out Week 8, submission due 5.00 pm Fri Jun 4th.
4.     Brief Practical Assignments: 20% Four in total, one handed out in each of Weeks 6, 7, 8 and 9,
       each worth 5% - online submission via Learn due one week later.
5.    Two Design Assignments (30%): One on packaging design (15%) to be handed out Week 2,
      submission due 5.00 pm Fri Mar 26th. One on fragrance design (15%) to be handed out in
      Week 9, submission due 5.00 pm Fri May 28th.

Late submissions of assignments and lab reports are eligible for 50% credit only.

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Mollet, Hans. , Grubenmann, Arnold; Formulation technology : emulsions, suspensions, solid forms ; Wiley-VCH, 2001.

Rahse, Wilfried; Industrial product design of solids and liquids : a practical guide ; Wiley-VCH, 2014.

Tadros, Tharwat F; Formulation Science and Technology Vol. 3: Pharmaceutical, Cosmetic and Personal Care Formulations ; De Gruyter, Inc., 2018.

Tadros, Tharwat F; Formulation Science and Technology ; De Gruyter, 2018.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $785.00

International fee $3,500.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Product Design .

All PROD333 Occurrences

  • PROD333-21S1 (C) Semester One 2021