BIOPRENG 4060 - Pharmaceutical Formulation and Manufacturing
North Terrace Campus - Semester 1 - 2025
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General Course Information
Course Details
Course Code BIOPRENG 4060 Course Pharmaceutical Formulation and Manufacturing Coordinating Unit Bioprocess Engineering Term Semester 1 Level Undergraduate Location/s North Terrace Campus Units 3 Contact Up to 4 hours per week Available for Study Abroad and Exchange N Assumed Knowledge Underlying operational principles (mass and heat transfer); including basics on reaction engineering and process design Assessment Tutorials, Quiz, Written exam Course Staff
Course Coordinator: Professor Volker Hessel
Course Timetable
The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from .
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Learning Outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this course students will be able to:
1 Discuss the fundamental principles for dosage form design, drug release and drug delivery 2 Apply the engineering principles for formulation of solutions, suspensions and emulsions, granules and tablets 3 Formulate the dosage forms for a given API based on its properties 4 Develop a formulation process for a given API 5 Take regulatory requirements into consideration for each unit operation 6 Demonstrate awareness of contemporary issues related to each unit operation
The above course learning outcomes are aligned with the Engineers 最新糖心Vlog .
The course is designed to develop the following Elements of Competency: 1.3 1.4 1.5 2.1 3.4
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Learning & Teaching Activities
Learning & Teaching Modes
Each (weekly) lecture is split in several mini-lectures (videos) which are prerecorded. Each lasts typically not longer than 15 min at typically 5-15 slides. Those lectures are every year updated for better learning. The mini-lectures will be provided several days before the tutorial. There will be no physical presentation of the lecture material.
The lectures will be provided as slide documents on MyUni.
The lectures are supported by problem-solving tutorials developing material covered in lectures. The tutorials will be given physically in a 2-hours workshop every week. The tutorials repeat the core information of the course, in discussion with the students to allow questions and active learning. Core of the tutorials are exercises that will support the learning and understanding. They will be solved in the tutorial with guidance on the correct solution, giving the students enough time to explore themselves solving the questions.
The tutorials will also provide, at small share and with focus, additional information to the lecture, which has the purpose to exemplify and detail the lecture contents. This will not, however, add contents to the lectures. For this reason, this information is not obligatory and needed for the examination, will its understanding can help in a better overall learning of the courses. The additional information will be provided as slide documents on MyUni as well as the exercise documents. The latter are obligatory material needed for the examination.
The tutorials are recorded to allow students to experience, while not being able to make the meeting physically.
The tutorials provide also relevant information on the course administration and management, for example, about announcements and about coming assignments, quiz, and exam. This includes questions to administration and managements. Essential information will be provided in parallel by emails to all course students to ensure everyone is informed.
Weekly uploads of documents will be announced per email to permit students maximal time for studying.Workload
The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.
- Lectures (videos): ca. 1.5 hours per week (excluding repeated watch of videos); totalling in 21 hours for the course; 12 lectures
- Tutorials: 2 hours per week; totalling in 24 hours for the course; 12 lectures
- Assignments: each assignment might need 6 hours per team member, totalling in 12 hours for two assignements
- Quiz: ca. 1 hour (excluding learning for quiz)
- Exam: 2 hours (excluding learning for exam)
- Study, research, reading and writing time: 6 hours per week, totalling in 72 hours for the course
- Preparation for examination. 20 hours
TOTAL Workload: ca. 152 hoursLearning Activities Summary
Lecture Schedule
Week Topic of Lecture Resources Formative Activities Summative Activities
1 Dosage form design Slides, videos Lecture/Tutorial
2 Drug absorption and bioavailability Slides, videos Lecture/Tutorial
3 Drug delivery design Slides, videos Lecture/Tutorial Assignment 1
4 Drug discovery & development Slides, videos Lecture/Tutorial
5 Preformulation Slides, videos Lecture/Tutorial
6 Liquid solutions Slides, videos Lecture/Tutorial
7 Colloids, suspensions and emulsions Slides, videos Lecture/Tutorial Quiz
8 Liquid mixing Slides, videos Lecture/Tutorial
9 Particle science and powder technology Slides, videos Lecture/Tutorial
10 Granulation Slides, videos Lecture/Tutorial Assignment 2
11 Drying Slides, videos Lecture/Tutorial
12 Tabletting/Coating Slides, videos Lecture/Tutorial
15 or 16 Exam
Specific Course Requirements
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Assessment
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Assessment Summary
* The specific due date for each assessment task will be available on MyUni.Assessment Task Weighting (%) Individual/ Group Formative/ Summative Due (week)* Hurdle criteria Learning outcomes Tutorial Assignments 20 Group Summative Weeks 2-12 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Quizzes 10 individual Summative Week 2-12 1. 2. 5. 6. Final exam 70 individual Summative 1. 2. 3. 4. Total 100
This assessment breakdown complies with the 最新糖心Vlog's Assessment for Coursework Programs Policy.
Assessment Related Requirements
It is compulsory to take part in the two assessments and quiz as well as in the final exam
Attendance at tutorials is not compulsory but strongly recommended. It provides learning and training for the above compulsory requirements and to get best capability for the examination.
The assessments and quiz have no minimum results required, yet contribute, together with the exam to the total mark for the course, which has the general minimum requirement, as given for all courses.Assessment Detail
The assessments and quiz will be done according to recommendations for their classes of questions. Those are explained in the Course's Workshop and the Workshops train for best answering along those recommendations. The assessments comprises four classes of questions, being essays, mini-questions, calculations, and quiz-format questions.
An essay is an extended answer which typically asks for demonstration of the multi-disciplinary understanding needed for the course. It typically requires connecting contents from more than one slide and has to comprise multiple contents within one lecture (or even spanningaccross the lectures). An essay is typically given as a narrative with a top-down information style, alike abstracts are made for a scientific paper.
A mini-question asks typically for "naming" or "describing" of a detailed course content. "Compounding" would be an example for naming of manual, human-made formulation. Describing is a short answer of 1-3 short sentences; for example, how cutting as particle size reduction mechanims works.
Calculations are widely exercised in the Course's Workshop. Goal is to use an equation provided by the Course and to apply it to solve mathematically a pharmaceutical formulation issue. When answering, it is essential to comment on the calculation, as typically it means to calculate parameters (e.g. particle density) before coming to the main calculation asked for. Answers help to make evident the complex, multi-step process of these calculations.
Quiz-format questions have the format of multiple-choice, yes/no-questions, etc. and are trained in the Workshops.Submission
Submission due dates and times generally follow the schedule given in the Learning Activities Summary and also in the Syllabus (document on MyUni), yet might be slightly varied to adjust to needs. Any update or change in dates and times will be announced on time in the Tutorial by the course coordinator and by email so that all are informed ahead of the duty.
Electronic submission of assignments and the quiz will be done through the respective features in MyUni.
The assignment will be marked and oral feedback will be given to each group in one tutorial, with each group separate. There will be room for discussion. Feedback on the quiz will be given in the tutorial to all attendees together.
Assignments will be returned within one week. As the quiz is automatically marked ("correct answer/incorrect"), the outcome is quasi immediately communicated.
Late submission of assessment will not given penalty, if that is announced on due time with a reason followed by approval. Otherwise, a penalty of 5 scores (out of 100) will apply. Extensions have to be submitted to the course coordinator for granting approval.
Submitting the quiz too late will result in a zero result. It is therefore highly recommended to submit a few minutes before the deadline. In case of any web transfer issue when submitting the quiz (wifi breakdown), this shall be documented, e.g. by photo, and immediately communicated to the course coordinator, by email. Then the quiz might be transferred by email directly after the official deadline, if the web transfer failure has been approved by the course coordinator.Course Grading
Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:
M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme) Grade Mark Description FNS Fail No Submission F 1-49 Fail P 50-64 Pass C 65-74 Credit D 75-84 Distinction HD 85-100 High Distinction CN Continuing NFE No Formal Examination RP Result Pending Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.
Grade Descriptors are available which provide a general guide to the standard of work that is expected at each grade level. More information at Assessment for Coursework Programs.
Final results for this course will be made available through .
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