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PSC3211

Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

18 September 2017 22 November 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Coordinator(s)

Dr Ian Larson and coo-coordinator Laurence Orlando

Offered

Parkville

  • First semester 2016 (Day)

Notes

This unit was previously coded as PSC3271 - Formulation Chemistry III

Synopsis

The objective of this unit is to provide students with an opportunity to develop their research, teamwork and communication skills by producing scientifically sound solutions to a real local industry formulation problem applying surfactant molecules. Students will create, apply and test development tools (in conjunction with PSC3231) in the context of a real world unknown problem under the supervision of an industry mentor. Students are professionally and genuinely judged by their professional mentors and it raises their sense of responsibility exponentially and improves employability.

Cases will be drawn from

  • agrochemicals
  • personal care products
  • detergents
  • paints
  • cosmetics

Outcomes

After completing this unit students will be expected to be able to:

  1. Develop a communication strategy with industry mentors
  2. Define a research strategy to find, evaluate and organise authoritative and relevant information needed to solve the problem based on the theory and use of surfactants;
  3. Synthesize findings, select relevant experimental factors to be studied to solve the problem
  4. Design an experimental protocol to investigate selected factors' effects
  5. Conduct the experiments according to industry standards and organise generated data
  6. Methodically and systematically analyze data, critically discuss and interpret observed phenomena
  7. Communicate scientific findings and conclusions in a professional scientific context
  8. Work effectively in teams

Assessment

In semester assessment 80%; final oral examination 20%

Workload requirements

Contact hours for on-campus students:

  • Thirty two hours practicals
  • Forty hours workshops

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Ian Larson

Prerequisites

PSC2222 Formulation chemistry
PSC2232 Colloid Chemistry

Co-requisites

PSC3231 Pharmaceutical Product Manufacture

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.monash.edu/pharm/current/