Pharmaceutical Engineering Laboratory I.

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Semester course; 3 laboratory hours. 1 credit. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students in the pharmaceutical engineering program or by permission of the instructor. Didactic laboratory in pharmaceutical engineering. Laboratory experiments will focus on three major themes based on the fundamentals of pharmaceutical manufacturing: upstream API synthesis (continuous reaction), downstream API purification/crystallization, drug product milling; formulation; and tableting. Experiments performed will focus on continuous synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredient, API characterization and API pre-formulation and will provide the platform for manufacturing of drug product formulation in more open-ended experiments to be carried out on the same themes in PESC 709 . In situ analytical tools (process analytical technology) will be used in the laboratory experiments to monitor API synthesis.