CHEMMAT 778 : Dairy Process Engineering

Engineering

2024 Semester Two (1245) (15 POINTS)

Course Prescription

Industry-focused advanced topics in post-farm-gate processing of milk including liquid milk, powdered dairy and fermented products. Waste and high value product recovery from milk processing. Trends in global dairy industry including new development in food physics and chemistry, new products and processes, design and production of novel foods. Includes individual project-based work, laboratory work and completion of a group-based project. Includes independent research to create unique innovative solutions to an open-ended problem.

Course Overview

This is an elective course aiming at introducing the latest technological development in dairy process engineering.  Key topics covered in this course include milk pasteurization technologies, membrane applications in dairy processing, spray drying and Dairy industry 4.0.  The course will be delivered with significant involvement from the dairy industry.  This course will be suitable for both engineering students  and students with a Food Science background (or equivalent).

Course Requirements

No pre-requisites or restrictions

Capabilities Developed in this Course

Capability 3: Knowledge and Practice
Capability 4: Critical Thinking
Capability 5: Solution Seeking

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:
  1. Apply mass and energy balance as well as material transport principles in the operation of various operating unit in dairy manufacturing. (Capability 3.1 and 3.2)
  2. Create mathematical tools which can be used to provide improvement to dairy manufacturing. (Capability 3.1, 3.2 and 4.1)
  3. Analyse dairy-based manufacturing from a plant or process wide scale for efficiency or production management. (Capability 3.1, 4.1 and 5.1)
  4. Evaluate the cutting-edge technology and development in dairy processing. (Capability 5.1)

Assessments

Assessment Type Percentage Classification
Laboratories 30% Individual Coursework
Assignments 70% Group & Individual Coursework
Assessment Type Learning Outcome Addressed
1 2 3 4
Laboratories
Assignments

Workload Expectations

This course is a standard 15 point course and students are expected to spend 10 hours per week involved in each 15 point course that they are enrolled in.

For this course, you can expect 36 hours of lectures, 60 hours of reading and thinking about the content and 54 hours of work on assignments and/or laboratories preparation.

Delivery Mode

Campus Experience

Attendance is expected at scheduled activities including labs and presentations
Lectures will be available as recordings. 
The course will include live online events including group discussions.
The activities for the course are scheduled as a standard weekly timetable delivery.

Learning Resources

Course materials are made available in a learning and collaboration tool called Canvas which also includes reading lists and lecture recordings (where available).

Please remember that the recording of any class on a personal device requires the permission of the instructor.

Health & Safety

This course may involve activities in research labs and safety and building inductions will be provided to students prior to the commencement of the labs.  Students are expected to prepare your own lab coats and safety glasses.  Students must ensure they are familiar with their Health and Safety responsibilities, as described in the university's Health and Safety policy.

Student Feedback

At the end of every semester students will be invited to give feedback on the course and teaching through a tool called SET or Qualtrics. The lecturers and course co-ordinators will consider all feedback and respond with summaries and actions.

Your feedback helps teachers to improve the course and its delivery for future students.

Class Representatives in each class can take feedback to the department and faculty staff-student consultative committees.

We will re-examine the complexity of the spray drying modelling assignment and the plant-wide modelling assignment to cater for a wider range of students from different postgraduate programmes.

Academic Integrity

The University of Auckland will not tolerate cheating, or assisting others to cheat, and views cheating in coursework as a serious academic offence. The work that a student submits for grading must be the student's own work, reflecting their learning. Where work from other sources is used, it must be properly acknowledged and referenced. This requirement also applies to sources on the internet. A student's assessed work may be reviewed for potential plagiarism or other forms of academic misconduct, using computerised detection mechanisms.

Class Representatives

Class representatives are students tasked with representing student issues to departments, faculties, and the wider university. If you have a complaint about this course, please contact your class rep who will know how to raise it in the right channels. See your departmental noticeboard for contact details for your class reps.

Inclusive Learning

All students are asked to discuss any impairment related requirements privately, face to face and/or in written form with the course coordinator, lecturer or tutor.

Student Disability Services also provides support for students with a wide range of impairments, both visible and invisible, to succeed and excel at the University. For more information and contact details, please visit the Student Disability Services’ website http://disability.auckland.ac.nz

Special Circumstances

If your ability to complete assessed coursework is affected by illness or other personal circumstances outside of your control, contact a member of teaching staff as soon as possible before the assessment is due.

If your personal circumstances significantly affect your performance, or preparation, for an exam or eligible written test, refer to the University’s aegrotat or compassionate consideration page https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/academic-information/exams-and-final-results/during-exams/aegrotat-and-compassionate-consideration.html.

This should be done as soon as possible and no later than seven days after the affected test or exam date.

Learning Continuity

In the event of an unexpected disruption, we undertake to maintain the continuity and standard of teaching and learning in all your courses throughout the year. If there are unexpected disruptions the University has contingency plans to ensure that access to your course continues and course assessment continues to meet the principles of the University’s assessment policy. Some adjustments may need to be made in emergencies. You will be kept fully informed by your course co-ordinator/director, and if disruption occurs you should refer to the university website for information about how to proceed.

Student Charter and Responsibilities

The Student Charter assumes and acknowledges that students are active participants in the learning process and that they have responsibilities to the institution and the international community of scholars. The University expects that students will act at all times in a way that demonstrates respect for the rights of other students and staff so that the learning environment is both safe and productive. For further information visit Student Charter https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/forms-policies-and-guidelines/student-policies-and-guidelines/student-charter.html.

Disclaimer

Elements of this outline may be subject to change. The latest information about the course will be available for enrolled students in Canvas.

In this course students may be asked to submit coursework assessments digitally. The University reserves the right to conduct scheduled tests and examinations for this course online or through the use of computers or other electronic devices. Where tests or examinations are conducted online remote invigilation arrangements may be used. In exceptional circumstances changes to elements of this course may be necessary at short notice. Students enrolled in this course will be informed of any such changes and the reasons for them, as soon as possible, through Canvas.