Lund University

The course describes pharmaceutical products and production, with an emphasis on physicochemical and chemical engineering questions. It also describes what happens to the drug product in the living organism when administered through different routes. The course focuses on different pharmaceutical formulations such as solutions, suspensions, emulsions, granulates, tablets, capsules, aerosols, and creams. The course gives an overview of the quality aspects of the pharmaceutical industry, and special requirements on the pharmaceutical industry when it comes to demands from authorities both Swedish and international. The laboratory assignments illustrate important formulation aspects and how to evaluate the quality and physical-chemical properties of the formulation. 

The course treats multiplicative number theoretic functions, Möbius inversion formula, properties of Euler's totient function, primitive roots and indices, quadratic residues, the Legendre symbol and it's properties, the quadratic reciprocity theorem, representations of integers as sums of squares, number theoretic properties of the Fibonacci sequence, continued fractions, Diophantine approximation.
 

This course provides a foundation for the two interrelated subjects of quality and maintenance. The course uses three different perspectives, where we start with the interrelation in-between customers´ needs and the enterprise's capability to develop new products. The course continues with the ability to use existing resources aimed at manufacturing products and finalize with the perspective of the user’s view on the product.

This course introduces the techniques and possibilities in modern experimental mechanics for the characterization of the mechanics of solid, porous, and granular materials using a range of physics techniques and full-field analyses. The course pays particular attention to full-field analyses using optical methods (with a focus on digital image correlation), x-ray and neutron imaging and scattering approaches, and wave propagation. The course includes both theoretical and practical parts, and involves study visits to MAX IV and ESS. Inverse analyses and digital image/signal processing in the context of experimental analyses are also covered.