1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

SC667 Environmental Health Practice (3)
5 credit points 2 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisites: SClOO Environmental Health, SC109
Biology, SC209 Biology, SC467 Environmental Health
Practice (I), SC567 Environmental Health Practice (2)
This is a fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Applied
Science (Environmental Health)
Content
Applied pest control encompassing principals of taxonomy,
lifecycles and general characteristics of insect species, pest
species detection and identification, control measures and
techniques.
SC668 Research Project
16 credit points 8 hours per week Hawthorn
This is a fourth year subject of the Bachelor of Applied
Science (Environmental Health)
Content
Students undertake a research program on an environmental
health topic which can include science, engineering, law,
administrative or social issues.
SC670 Chemistry
10 credit points 4 hours pw week Hawthorn
This is a fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Applied
Science (Applied Chemistry) and (Biochemistry/Chemistry)
Content
Ion exchange and solvent extraction principles and
applications in industrial, laboratory and biochemical
situations.
Organic chemistry carbocations, heterocyclics.
Laboratory analyzers, with specific discussion of detectors,
amplification, frequency response, digital systems and
clinical analyzers.
SC680 Practical Chemistry
5 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn
This is a fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Applied
Science (Biochemistry/Chemistry)
Content
HPLC and GC/MS experiments.
Analysis of a food product using an atomic absorption
spectrometer.
Molecular modelling using the IRIS computer.
SC690 Computers in Chemistry
5.5 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn
This is a fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Applied
Science (Applied Chemistry) and (Biochemistry/Chemistry)
Content
ANOVA, regression and experimental design.
Simplex optimisation.
HPLC optimisation.
Forecasting.
Project Management.
SC708 Scientific Communication 7
2 credit points 1 hour per week Hawthorn
This is a fourth year subject in the Bachelor of Applied
Science (Applied Chemistry) and (Biochemistry/Chemistry)
Content
Training and practice in the presentation of oral reports to
industrial, scientific and general audiences.
Special requirements of oral reporting, including the use of
audievisual aids.
SC709 Employment Experience
30 credit points
A six-month period of industry based learning in the Graduate
Diploma in Industrial Chemistry. Students are supervised by a
member of the academic staff and are required to submit a
report to their employer and to their supervisor.
SC716 Basic Colloid Science
7.5 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
This is a subject of the Graduate Diploma of Applied
Science (Applied Colloid Science)
Content
The significance and importance of particle size. Preparation
and purification of simple colloids. Characterisation of
colloids by surface cha&e and zetapotential. The origin and
significance of surface charge. Potential determining ions.
Electrokinetic phenomena. Applicability of the Nernst and
Lippman equations to colloidal surfaces. Colloid stability.
DLVO theory and steric forces.
SC717 Basic Surface Science
7.5 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
This is a subject of the Graduate Diploma of Applied
Science (Applied Colloid Science)
Content
Surface models, surface thermodynamics and the properties
of curved surfaces. Liquid surfaces and the concept of
surface tension. Methods for measuring surface tension.
Spreading of liquids; wetting, contact angles and adhesion.
Adsorption and orientation of monolayers and of
surfactants at interfaces.