Course overview
This course provides an introductory overview of pharmaceutical engineering technology. The course introduces active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturing, powder mixing and tableting, recombinant DNA technology and therapeutic protein manufacturing in the pharmaceutical industry. An introduction to batch process design emphasising unique requirements of pharmaceutical plants will be included. This course aligns with the programs intent to demonstrate a chemical engineering body of knowledge and apply this knowledge along with critical thinking, creativity, and innovation for industrial and real-life complex problems.
Course learning outcomes
- Recognise the role of key operational units in bioprocess engineering
- Apply the mathematical principles of cell culture kinetics fermentation
- Apply the principles of operation of batch, fed-batch, and continuous bioreactor regimes
- Apply process integration of unit operations for overall Biopharmaceutical processing
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Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 60127
Section LE01
Size 20
Available 20
Class number 55200
Section TU01
Size 20
Available 20
Class number 55201
Section WS01
Size 20
Available 20
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