EXPORT-ORIENTED MANAGEMENT - IMC Fachhochschule Krems

Teaching Concept
Students are assisted during their application process and develop strategies for their
application.
Evaluation
Updated CVs and motivation letters
Scale up – Scale down techniques
Semester Hours per week Subject code ECTS
Fall 2 SCALE 2
Learning Outcomes/ Course Objectives
The students learn the most important purification techniques commonly used in
biotechnological industry with a special emphasis on their scalability.
Prerequisites/ Level
Advanced
Course Description
The four main downstream operations are outlined: Separation, Isolation of the product.
Purification, preparation in pure state. Thus the following unit operations are examined:
filtration, lysis, flocculation, sedimentation, extraction, chromatography, adsorption,
precipitation, crystallisation, drying and centrifugation. Purification strategies of specific
products are discussed to high lighten the advantages and disadvantages of these
processes.
Teaching Methods
Lecture
Evaluation
Final exam
Standardization
Semester Hours per week Subject code ECTS
Fall 1 SCT 1
Learning Outcomes/ Course Objectives
General overview how and which standards (engineering as well as pharmaceutical) are
applied in the pharmaceutical industry.
Prerequisites/ Level
Advanced
Course description
The course covers the basic principles how engineering and especially pharmaceutical
standards are implemented respectively transcribed into internal specifications (e.g. URS,
Material Specification, Product Specification) and the concerned parts of the CTD of
regulatory submissions. Students will be introduced to national (e.g. ÖNORM, DIN) and
international (e.g. EN, ISO, Ph.Eur.) standards and regulations (e.g. DGVO, MSV, AM-VO).
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