This project has been closed

Available to:
All Students

Employment Type:
Scholarship

Max number of recipients:
4

This project has been closed

Available to:
All Students

Employment Type:
Scholarship

Max number of recipients:
4

Description of the project:
This project will focus on water reuse and wastewater treatment. The student team will be asked to investigate water reuse opportunities through the use of a Reverse Ozmosis (RO) plant and subsequent polishing and treatment technologies. Regulatory and customer requirements will need to be considered. In addition to this, the team will investigate the effect of specific sanitisers and changes to feed stream composition on the performance of Warrnambools Cheese and Butter’s wastewater treatment plant by using an anaerobic digester pilot plant.

This project has been closed

Project Aims:
This project aims to deliver the following:
Report detailing water recycling opportunities with consideration given to process engineering, electrical, quality, regulatory and customer requirements.
Report detailing outcomes of experiments on the anaerobic digester pilot plant and recommendations for operating points should any of the experimental conditions be implemented into full-scale water treatment.

Faculty or Department:
Engineering-Chemical
Engineering-Electrical & Computer Systems
Engineering-Environmental
Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Science

Sector:
Dairy

Employment Type:
Scholarship
Applications for this project are welcome from penultimate and subsequent year undergraduates, Masters and PhD students (coursework and research) who are enrolled full-time at Monash.

Selection Criteria:
Your application will be reviewed by senior university members and assessed against the following criteria:
• Quality of covering letter, resume and on-line application including spelling & grammar
• Relevance of your degree to the project(s) you select
• Skills, ability, knowledge and experience relevant to the project (s) you apply for
• Extra – curricular activities (i.e. sports/clubs & societies/memberships)
• Career goals & ambitions
• Academic performance
• Successful completion of group activity
• Successful interview with industry partner

Please note:
Scope for MITI projects are determined by the industry partners, this includes student disciplines and whether they require students at undergraduate, Masters or PhD level.
The final selection of the MITI project team will be made by the industry partner.
Each industry project will run for 12 weeks over the summer vacation period that is December 2017 through to February 2018.
If selected you must be available and agree to commit for the entire 12 week period.

Duration:
12 weeks

Max number of recipients:
4

Application process:
A cover letter and current CV are mandatory requirements of the application process.
Your cover letter should state the following information in a clear and concise manner:
• why this project is of particular interest to you
• an outline of your experience either through work, study or other interests to support your applicatio
• what you can contribute as a member of the team

Please note:
Prior to applying for this opportunity please consider the location of the project. Allansford is situated in the Western Districts (Regional Victoria) approximately 256 kms from Melbourne CBD. You will be living away from home for the duration of the project, therefore own transport is required.

Description of the project:
Bega Cheese prides itself on producing high quality products and all of our team members are highly trained in good manufacturing practices and food safety. Across the business we have food safety induction and training programs, the objective of the project is to produce a business wide interactive training program, the format only limited to your imagination. It can include an online platform, videos and even a game. Think about it being informative and something that you would enjoy.

The content of the training focuses on improving the food safety culture and should include topics such as good manufacturing practices (GMP), Hygiene, Food Safety, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) and allergen awareness.

This program will be rolled out across all of the seven Bega factories and offices, to hundreds of employees.

This project has been closed

Project Aims:
Students will be required to design and build an interactive and engaging training program (not a set of powerpoint slides) with content that covers regulatory and business requirements delivered in one or a number of platforms that are not only engaging but are inline with the job role.
The selection of the style of training should be a result of collaboration within the business and an improvement on the current programs.

The expectation is that this is an integrated program rather than a one off training course and could be supplemented with:
• A group wide induction program and booklet
• Alignment of site entry computer system sign in
• Support and marketing material such as posters
• Ongoing marketing and training campaign

The expectation is that there is a “tool kit” of material to support training and an ongoing program to emphasis and live a culture of quality.

Faculty or Department:
Art, Design and Architecture
Arts
Business and Economics
Education
Engineering
Information Technology
Science

Sector:
Dairy
Manufacturing

Employment Type:
Scholarship

Attributes:
Students with knowledge and skills in the following areas are encouraged to apply:
• Science knowledge (food safety, HACCP etc).
• Business/Marketing – selling and marketing ideas, measures of success, presentation, format of training program, etc.
• Human resources – change management, engagement, training, behavioural studies, psychology.
• IT – platform design/development

Applications for this project are welcome from penultimate and subsequent year undergraduates, Masters and PhD students (coursework and research) who are enrolled full-time at Monash.

Selection Criteria:
Your application will be reviewed by senior university members and assessed against the following criteria:
• Quality of covering letter, resume and on-line application including spelling & grammar
• Relevance of your degree to the project(s) you select
• Skills, ability, knowledge and experience relevant to the project (s) you apply for
• Extra – curricular activities (i.e. sports/clubs & societies/memberships)
• Career goals & ambitions
• Academic performance
• Successful completion of group activity
• Successful interview with industry partner

Please note:
Scope for MITI projects are determined by the industry partners, this includes student disciplines and whether they require students at undergraduate, Masters or PhD level.
The final selection of the MITI project team will be made by the industry partner.
Each industry project will run for 12 weeks over the summer vacation period that is December 2017 through to February 2018.
If selected you must be available and agree to commit for the entire 12 week period.

Duration:
12 weeks

Max number of recipients:
4

Application process:
A cover letter and current CV are mandatory requirements of the application process.
Your cover letter should state the following information in a clear and concise manner:
• why this project is of particular interest to you
• an outline of your experience either through work, study or other interests to support your application
• what you can contribute as a member of the team

Description of the project:
Accurately forecasting milk supply from farm and third party suppliers is pivotal in ensuring milk is efficiently collected off these farms and optimally processed across our factory sites.
This project is aimed at developing a sophisticated milk forecasting system and tool that would enable Fonterra Australia to accurately forecast milk supply off farm and from third parties.
It would enable our business to more effectively plan for short, medium and long term scenarios at the farm, manufacturing and commercial levels, ultimately assisting the business to become more efficient in the Australian dairy industry.

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Project Aims:
Students will be required to develop a prototype milk forecasting model to provide accurate short, medium and long term forecasting capability.
This model can be built using existing models and input data from various sources, including:
* Farm milk production data by region and farm, historical and current
* Milk quality and logistics data
* Weather and seasonal data
* Farm inputs (eg. Water, Grain/Feed, Fertiliser) data
The model would have the ability to pull data from various internal and external sources and accurately forecast and build scenarios for commercial business planning.

Faculty or Department:
Business and Economics
Engineering
Information Technology
Science

Sector:
Dairy
Manufacturing

Employment Type:
Scholarship

Attributes:
Students with knowledge or experience in the following areas are encouraged to apply:
Mathematics, Data analytics, Software development
Modelling, developing algorithms for forecasting and code writing/software development
Applications for this project are welcome from penultimate and subsequent year undergraduates, Masters and PhD students (coursework and research) who are enrolled full-time at Monash.

Selection Criteria:
Your application will be reviewed by senior university members and assessed against the following criteria:
• Quality of covering letter, resume and on-line application including spelling & grammar
• Relevance of your degree to the project(s) you select
• Skills, ability, knowledge and experience relevant to the project (s) you apply for
• Extra – curricular activities (i.e. sports/clubs & societies/memberships)
• Career goals & ambitions
• Academic performance
• Successful completion of group activity
• Successful interview with industry partner

Please note:
Scope for MITI projects are determined by the industry partners, this includes student disciplines and whether they require students at undergraduate, Masters or PhD level.
The final selection of the MITI project team will be made by the industry partner.
Each industry project will run for 12 weeks over the summer vacation period that is December 2017 through to February 2018.
If selected you must be available and agree to commit for the entire 12 week period.

Duration:
12 weeks

Max number of recipients:
3

Application process:
A cover letter and current CV are mandatory requirements of the application process.
Your cover letter should state the following information in a clear and concise manner:
• why this project is of particular interest to you
• an outline of your experience either through work, study or other interests to support your application
• what you can contribute as a member of the team

Description of the project:
Parmalat Australia have recently grown to over one billion litres of farm milk supply nationally and are looking to streamline the information flow between the manufacturing sites and within our milk logistics team.
This movement is predominately from the Nth Vic region. Within the three eastern seaboard states (QLD, NSW & VIC) Parmalat operates ten production facilities, consuming approximately 820mio litres p.a. with most of this production based in Victoria.

Along with the ten production facilities Parmalat commenced the use of a central milk staging station in Nth VIC in May 2017. This staging station is an integral part of the milk logistics for the east coast with upwards of 120mio litres passing through this station each year to be distributed to QLD, NSW and SA from VIC.
With such a large volume of milk now passing through the staging station visibility on milk flow into our production sites and forecasting milk collection volumes have become an integral part of the operation to ensure a lowest cost focus.

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Project Aims:
Parmalat are looking to review all information sources and determine the optimum solution for the way information flows from the data systems at each site, this will allow real-time analysis of;
* Interstate freight costs
* The optimal volume mix between states
* Production site raw milk holding capacity and live milk usage data
The model should have the ability to adjust the interstate/3rd party milk demand on a daily basis with little manual intervention. The model would also solve for the lowest cost of milk into each production site.
The model outputs would be;
* A daily delivery schedule for each production site, specifying the source location (Region or 3rd party) for each load of raw milk
* A daily milk flow (in and out) or the staging station
Once the prototype model is established and proven a web based model would be commissioned and developed.

Faculty or Department:
Art, Design and Architecture
Business and Economics
Engineering
Information Technology

Sector:
Dairy

Employment Type:
Scholarship

Attributes:
Skills in the following areas will be considered favourably:
Microsoft Excel
Project Management
Applications for this project are welcome from penultimate and subsequent year undergraduates, Masters and PhD students (coursework and research) who are enrolled full-time at Monash.

Selection Criteria:
Your application will be reviewed by senior university members and assessed against the following criteria:
• Quality of covering letter, resume and on-line application including spelling & grammar
• Relevance of your degree to the project(s) you select
• Skills, ability, knowledge and experience relevant to the project (s) you apply for
• Extra – curricular activities (i.e. sports/clubs & societies/memberships)
• Career goals & ambitions
• Academic performance
• Successful completion of group activity
• Successful interview with industry partner

Please note:
Scope for MITI projects are determined by the industry partners, this includes student disciplines and whether they require students at undergraduate, Masters or PhD level.
The final selection of the MITI project team will be made by the industry partner.
Each industry project will run for 12 weeks over the summer vacation period that is December 2017 through to February 2018.
If selected you must be available and agree to commit for the entire 12 week period.

Duration:
12 weeks

Max number of recipients:
4

Application process:
A cover letter and current CV are mandatory requirements of the application process.
Your cover letter should state the following information in a clear and concise manner:
• why this project is of particular interest to you
• an outline of your experience either through work, study or other interests to support your application
• what you can contribute as a member of the team

Description of the project:
This project will include two major components as follows:
1. Analysis, identification and implementation of improved weight control on Food Preparation and Powder production lines & Improve product yield and reduce product losses through food preparation process.

This may include:
Extract data from existing weight control systems and analyse to determine existing capability.
Identify improvements to increase capability, through product, process or equipment opportunities.
Establish business case for investment if required.
Deliver improvement.s
Identify key product losses through milk separation, silo storage, process step changes, CTU start up and operation and filling line.
Generate opportunities for improvement, taking into account existing plant and capability.
Establish business case for investment if required.
and

2. Scope and implement live consumption of nutritional ingredients through production processes.
This may include:
• Document existing process steps and manual documentation process of getting from operator record into Navision.
• Scope and design implementation of barcode scanners for operators, delivering live entry into Navision for live consumption.
• Generate training programs, troubleshooting guides and implementation plan.
• Support delivery of training and implementation.

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Project Aims:
This project will aim to deliver the following:
1.Identify and deliver $50k pa in weight control improvements & Identify and deliver $50k pa in yield improvements.
2.Deliver live consumption for nutritional plant operations

Faculty or Department:
Engineering
Science

Sector:
Dairy
Manufacturing

Employment Type:
Scholarship

Attributes:
Students with experience in dairy or food manufacturing are encouraged to apply.
Applications for this project are welcome from penultimate and subsequent year undergraduates, Masters and PhD students (coursework and research) who are enrolled full-time at Monash.

Selection Criteria:
Your application will be reviewed by senior university members and assessed against the following criteria:
• Quality of covering letter, resume and on-line application including spelling & grammar
• Relevance of your degree to the project(s) you select
• Skills, ability, knowledge and experience relevant to the project (s) you apply for
• Extra – curricular activities (i.e. sports/clubs & societies/memberships)
• Career goals & ambitions
• Academic performance
• Successful completion of group activity
• Successful interview with industry partner

Please note:
Scope for MITI projects are determined by the industry partners, this includes student disciplines and whether they require students at undergraduate, Masters or PhD level.
The final selection of the MITI project team will be made by the industry partner.
Each industry project will run for 12 weeks over the summer vacation period that is December 2017 through to February 2018.
If selected you must be available and agree to commit for the entire 12 week period.

Duration:
12 weeks

Max number of recipients:
2

Application process:
A cover letter and current CV are mandatory requirements of the application process.
Your cover letter should state the following information in a clear and concise manner:
• why this project is of particular interest to you
• an outline of your experience either through work, study or other interests to support your application
• what you can contribute as a member of the team

Prior to applying for this opportunity please consider the location of the project. Korumburra is situated in South Gippsland (Regional Victoria) located approximately 120 kms from Melbourne CBD. You will be required to live away from home for the duration of the project therefore your own transport will be required.
Suitable local accommodation + an appropriate travel allowance will be provided.

Description of the project:
A unique opportunity exists to participate in a blitz on factory dairy losses across the 6 manufacturing sites in Victoria and Tasmania. A team will be involved in sampling daily effluent and optimising plant rinse and wash cycles to recover additional daily solids, reduce water usage and optimise CIP chemical usage.

The team will be exposed to manufacturing processes and advanced drain loss reporting tools across a number of Fonterra’s manufacturing sites. The team will design a program and sample a number of waste streams across the factory sites to enable a better understanding of drain losses for a variety of product mix.

The project team will also have the opportunity to consider options for improving waste water quality and look at alternatives to reuse waste products generated onsite (biodigestor etc).

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Project Aims:
Students will bre required to present recommendations to Fonterra on the following:
* Opportunities to recover additional daily solids
* Opportunities to improve waste water quality (DAF/IAF optimisation)
* Opportunities to improve CIP/wash effectiveness
* Opportunities to reduce Chemical / Water usage
* Explore alternative uses for waste products
* Explore waste streams as a potential fuel sources

Faculty or Department:
Business and Economics
Engineering
Information Technology
Science

Sector:
Dairy
Manufacturing

Employment Type:
Scholarship

Attributes:
Students with knowledge and/or experience in the following are encouraged to apply:
Chemical engineering, Mechanical engineering
Strong problem solving skills
Exposure to financial modelling / business case preparation
Applications for this project are welcome from penultimate and subsequent year undergraduates, Masters and PhD students (coursework and research) who are enrolled full-time at Monash.

Selection Criteria:
Your application will be reviewed by senior university members and assessed against the following criteria:
• Quality of covering letter, resume and on-line application including spelling & grammar
• Relevance of your degree to the project(s) you select
• Skills, ability, knowledge and experience relevant to the project (s) you apply for
• Extra – curricular activities (i.e. sports/clubs & societies/memberships)
• Career goals & ambitions
• Academic performance
• Successful completion of group activity
• Successful interview with industry partner

Please note:
Scope for MITI projects are determined by the industry partners, this includes student disciplines and whether they require students at undergraduate, Masters or PhD level.
The final selection of the MITI project team will be made by the industry partner.
Each industry project will run for 12 weeks over the summer vacation period that is December 2017 through to February 2018.
If selected you must be available and agree to commit for the entire 12 week period.

Duration:
12 weeks

Max number of recipients:
4

Application process:
A cover letter and current CV are mandatory requirements of the application process.
Your cover letter should state the following information in a clear and concise manner:
• why this project is of particular interest to you
• an outline of your experience either through work, study or other interests to support your application
• what you can contribute as a member of the team