Overview
Status: Active
National Framework Of Qualifications (NFQ) Level: 9
NFQ Award Class: Major Award
Duration Part Time: 18 Month(s)
Total Credits: 60
Connected Curriculum: - Employability
- Sustainability
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): - Decent Work and Economic Growth
- Responsible Consumption and Production
Graduate Attributes: - Creator, evaluator and communicator of knowledge
Exit Award only.
The Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical Engineering is a part-time programme that runs for a minimum of 18 months (maximum 60 months) from the date of first registration for the programme.
Programme Requirements
For information about modules, module choice, options and credit weightings, please go to Programme Requirements.
Programme Requirements
Module List
| Code |
Title |
Credits |
| |
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| PE6010 | Pharmaceutical Engineering | 5 |
| PE6011 | Biopharmaceutical Engineering | 5 |
| PE6013 | Powder and Particle Technology and Unit Operations | 5 |
| 15 |
| Introductory Pharmaceutical Chemistry | |
| Biopharmaceutical Supporting Systems | |
| Pharmaceutical Process Validation and Quality | |
| Process Analytical Technology | |
| |
| |
| PE6012 | Pharmaceutical Process Equipment, Materials and Mechanical Design | 5 |
| PE6016 | Process Optimisation and Scale-up in the Pharmaceutical Industry | 5 |
| PE6022 | Aseptic Manufacturing Design | 5 |
| PE6024 | Process Safety Engineering | 5 |
| PE6026 | Project Engineering - From Concept to Completion | 5 |
| PE6027 | Advanced Biopharmaceutical Engineering | 5 |
Examinations
Full details and regulations governing Examinations for each programme will be contained in the Marks and Standards Book and for each module in the Book of Modules.
Programme Learning Outcomes
Programme Learning Outcomes for Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmaceutical and Biopharmaceutical Engineering (NFQ Level 9, Major Award)
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
- Apply an enhanced knowledge and understanding of the mathematics, sciences, engineering sciences and technologies to pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical engineering;
- Identify, formulate, analyse and solve problems related to pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical engineering;
- Design pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturing facilities and processes, including unfamiliar, ill-defined scenarios, underpinned by a sustainability informed paradigm, taking account of environmental, health and safety and risk factors, and know how to apply relevant codes of practice, industry standards and emerging practices and technologies;
- Gather experimental data, apply a range of standard and specialized research tools and techniques and conduct critical evaluation of results;
- Effectively design experiments and gather experimental data, apply a range of standard and specialized research tools and techniques and conduct critical evaluation of results;
- Work effectively as an individual and in teams in planning and carrying through on assignments and projects in a lifelong learning context;
- Communicate effectively with the engineering community and with society at large.
