This project has been closed

Project Aims:
This project will look at the management and treatment of phosphorus as a waste output of dairy processing.

Available to:
All Students

Faculty or Department:
Business and Economics
Engineering-Chemical
Engineering-Electrical & Computer Systems
Engineering-Materials
Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Disciplines:
Chemical Engineering
Economics
Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering
Materials Engineering

Sector:
Manufacturing

Employment Type:
Scholarship

Eligibility:
All students

Selection Criteria:
• Academic performance may be taken into consideration
• Application review and assessment process conducted by key Faculty members
• Final selection for the project team will be made by Fonterra
• Students must be available for 12 weeks from December 2014-February 2015

Duration:
12 weeks

Max number of recipients:
4

Description of the project:
Burra Foods take great pride in our capacity to produce a quality product suitable for a global market. We are continually looking for innovative ways to optimise our business processes and maximise output to remain competitive. This project will seek to explore and understand the current capabilities and constraints on the plant processing equipment with a view to devising a tool to optimise the production planning process. This will include predicting risk and issues and enabling real time adjustments and displaying a simulated model.
This project will be based at Burra Foods, Korumburra, South Gippsland.

This project has been closed

Project Aims:
To deliver a tool which can be used by the plant to plan the production environment, from an hourly to weekly view, and feed back actual to planned, with visual display of key parameters for various audiences. To complete this, firstly each of the processes on site must be modelled for production capacity, dependencies, cleaning time required, and other steps in the process such as start up and shut down requirements. This information will then be used to create a model which will simulate the plant environment and show milk processing capability.

Available to:
All Students

Faculty or Department:
Business and Economics
Engineering-Chemical
Engineering-Mechanical
Information Technology

Disciplines:
Aerospace Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Economics
Mechanical Engineering

Sector:
Manufacturing

Employment Type:
Scholarship

Attributes:
Knowledge of dairy processing equipment, qualifications, past work history, ability to deliver in a team environment, interview performance.

Eligibility:
All students

Selection Criteria:
Academic performance may be taken into consideration.
Application review and assessment process conducted by key Faculty members.
Final selection for the project team will be made by Burra Foods Australia.
Students must be available for 12 weeks from December 2014-February 2015.

Please note prior to applying for this opportunity:
Students will require their own transport as this project will be based at Burra Foods, Korumburra, South Gippsland
As this project will be based in Regional Victoria accomodation for the duration of the project will be provided and a travel allowance (up to the value of $400 AUD) will be provided to each student.

Duration:
12 weeks
Max number of recipients:
4

Application process:
Cover letter & CV required. The cover letter should include why you’re interested in being a member of the project team and additionally outline how your experiences either through work or study support your application when being considered for selection.

Description of the project:
Many of the world’s leading brands depend on the high quality ingredients that we supply.

We are the world’s second largest exporter supplying dairy ingredients on the global market, exporting our products from our distribution centres in Laverton and Port Melbourne in Victoria. Our biggest markets include south east Asia, Japan, China and the Middle East. Our proximity to our customers and markets consolidates our position as a key dairy ingredient supplier in the region.

We work closely with our customers to create the ingredients they need to meet the functional and nutritional requirements of their products. They trust us for our emphasis on safety and quality as well as our ability to deliver on what we promise. The ingredients we make have evolved over time as we have become more innovative and adapted to the changing needs of our customers.

Our activities are underpinned by a commitment to uphold our reputation as a first choice dairy ingredient company, focused on sustainably meeting our customers’ needs so they can produce safe and nutritious foods.

This project will focus on the business & customer needs of the milk powder portfolio as it relates to one of DMG’s manufacturing sites. The understanding of the below elements and effects to the business needs will be vital to complete the project aims:
• Raw Material Selection
• Safety & Quality
• Throughput
• Capacity
• Equipment Selection, Implications, Efficiencies & Optimisation
• Cost Implications
• Final Product Functionality & Composition

This project has been closed

Project Aims:
Generation of a dairy simulation model to mimic the powder production process from raw material to customer addressing the above key elements.

Available to:
All Students
Faculty or Department:
Engineering-Chemical
Engineering-Materials
Engineering-Mechanical
Science

Sector:
Manufacturing

Employment Type:
Scholarship

Eligibility:
All students

Selection Criteria:
• Academic performance may be taken into consideration.
• Application review and assessment process conducted by key Faculty members.
• Final selection for the project team will be made by Devondale Murray Goulburn.
• Students must be available for 12 weeks from December 2014-February 2015.

Please note prior to applying for this opportunity:
• Students will require their own transport as the majority of this project will be at Devondale Murray Goulburn site at Cobram.Some work will also be undertaken at the Werribee Innovation Centre and at Monash University.
• As this project will be based in Regional Victoria accomodation for the duration of the project will be provided and a travel allowance (up to the value of $400 AUD) will be provided to each student.

Duration:
12 weeks

Max number of recipients:
4

Application process:
Cover letter & CV required. The cover letter should include why you’re interested in being a member of the project team and additionally outline how your experiences either through work or study support your application when being considered for selection.

Description of the project:
Bega currently uses a freeze dry method for drying Lactoferrin and Lacto Peroxidase.

This project would require students to model the spray drying of Lactoferrin and Lacto Peroxidase, define the functional properties of the final powder, understand specific drying parameters and their impact on the final powder, quantify any differences to freeze Dried material, and understand any impacts on bio activity/iron binding.

This project has been closed

Project Aims:
This project aims to compare and evaluate alternative drying processes for optimisation

Available to:
All Students

Faculty or Department:
Engineering-Chemical
Engineering-Civil
Engineering-Materials
Science

Disciplines:
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Materials Engineering

Sector:
Manufacturing

Employment Type:
Scholarship

Eligibility:
All students

Selection Criteria:
• Academic performance may be taken into consideration.
• Application review and assessment process conducted by key Faculty members.
• Final selection for the project team will be made by Bega Cheese.
• Students must be available for 12 weeks from December 2014-February 2015.

Please note prior to applying for this opportunity:
• Students must have their own transport as the factory is located @ Tatura in Northern Victoria.
• As this project will be based in Regional Victoria accommodation for the duration of the project will be provided and a travel allowance (up to the value of $400 AUD) will be provided to each student.

Duration:
12 weeks

Max number of recipients:
4

Application process:
Cover letter & CV required. The cover letter should include why you’re interested in being a member of the project team and additionally outline how your experiences either through work or study support your application when being considered for selection.

Description of the project:
• WCB uses a large anaerobic digester to process dairy waste before pumping it to Warrnambool’s municipal waste treatment facility and ocean outfall.
• Natural gas is used to run a number of boilers on site.
• A small percentage of methane from the anaerobic digester is used to supplement the use of natural gas on site whilst the remaining methane is flared off.
• The availability of methane is inconsistent and varies with cheese production scheduling.
• The price of natural gas is rising and will impact WCB once the existing supply contract expires in 2016.
• Review current operation of WCB boilers and recommend changes to improve efficiency.
• Review the limitations of biogas usage onsite and recommend actions for increased usage (may include modelling biogas output with cheese production, tuning of current biogas infrastructure, new and current scrubbing technologies, new and current storage technologies etc).
• Review options for preheating boiler feedstock (may include new technologies e.g. heat pump, PV).
• Cost/benefit analysis of recommendations were applicable.

This project has been closed

Project Aims:
Optimise the thermal balance around WCB’s boilers through changes to boiler running parameters, supplementation of natural gas with biogas, or implementation of technologies to pre-heat boiler feedstock.

Available to:
All Students

Faculty or Department:
Engineering-Chemical
Engineering-Mechanical

Disciplines:
Chemical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

Sector:
Manufacturing

Employment Type:
Scholarship

Attributes:
Engineering-Chemical Engineering
Engineering-Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Candidates will be able to work with minimal supervision, work well in a team, have a strong emphasis on safety and have technical knowledge in the project area.

Eligibility:
All students

Selection Criteria:
• Academic performance may be taken into consideration.
• Application review and assessment process conducted by key Faculty members.
• Final selection for the project team will be made by Warrnambool Cheese and Butter.
• Students must be available for 12 weeks from December 2014-February 2015.

Please note prior to applying for this opportunity:
• Students must have their own transport as the factory is located 10kms out of Warrnambool.
• As this project will be based in Regional Victoria accommodation for the duration of the project will be provided and a travel allowance (up to the value of $400 AUD) will be provided to each student.

Duration:
12 weeks

Max number of recipients:
4

Application process:
Cover letter & CV required. The cover letter should include why you’re interested in being a member of the project team and additionally outline how your experiences either through work or study support your application when being considered for selection.

Description of the project:
Bega have been working on a project to build a liquid whey demineralisation plant.

As part of this process, they have made a significant investment into waste water treatment systems to remove salts from the waste stream concentrate up select streams (high Nutrient) and irrigate the balance.

This project will explore the high nutrient stream and understand if it can be converted to stock food and identify relevant processes to enable this.

This project has been closed

Project Aims:
Using detailed waste streams models students are required to determine a suitable process to convert a waste water stream to a stock food source.

Available to:
All Students

Faculty or Department:
Engineering-Chemical
Engineering-Civil
Science

Disciplines:
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering

Sector:
Manufacturing

Employment Type:
Scholarship

Eligibility:
All students

Selection Criteria:
• Academic performance may be taken into consideration.
• Application review and assessment process conducted by key Faculty members.
• Final selection for the project team will be made by Bega Cheese.
• Students must be available for 12 weeks from December 2014-February 2015.

Please note prior to applying for this opportunity:
• Students must have their own transport as the factory is located in Bega, in South East NSW.
• As this project will be based in Regional Victoria accommodation for the duration of the project will be provided and a travel allowance (up to the value of $400 AUD) will be provided to each student.

Duration:
12 weeks

Max number of recipients:
4

Application process:
Cover letter CV required. The cover letter should include why you’re interested in being a member of the project team and additionally outline how your experiences either through work or study support your application when being considered for selection.

Description of the project:
Dairy foods are best known for providing calcium to help build strong bones. Bones grow rapidly during childhood. As well as calcium, dairy foods provide children with other essential nutrients including protein for growth and development, zinc for brain function and vitamin A for healthy eyes. But most Australian kids aren’t meeting the recommended serves of milk, cheese and yogurt and/or alternatives every day. Devondale wish to educate children and their parents on the importance of dairy and also on how nutritious the range of Devondale products are.

This project has been closed

Project Aims:
Generation of a mobile App that will be fun and interactive for kids 5-11years which also teaches the importance of dairy in an active lifestyle.

Available to:
All Students

Faculty or Department:
Education
Engineering-Electrical & Computer Systems
Information Technology

Disciplines:
Computational Science
Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering

Sector:
Manufacturing

Employment Type:
Scholarship

Eligibility:
All students

Selection Criteria:
• Academic performance may be taken into consideration.
• Application review and assessment process conducted by key Faculty members.
• Final selection for the project team will be made by Devondale Murray Golburn.
• Students must be available for 12 weeks from December 2014-Febnruary 2015.

Duration:
12 weeks

Max number of recipients:
4

Application process:
Cover letter & CV required. The cover letter should include why you’re interested in being a member of the project team and additionally outline how your experiences either through work or study support your application when being considered for selection.