Packaging
Bachelor's degree
In Michigan Center (USA)
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Michigan center (USA)
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Start date
Different dates available
The School of Packaging offers a program of instruction leading to the Bachelor of Science degree. The program combines basic principles of physics, chemistry, mathematics, and materials science with specialized courses to prepare students for rewarding careers in industry. Career opportunities are plentiful since some form of packaging is involved in the production and movement to market of nearly every item of consumption in today’s economy. In addition to careers in companies that use packaging, attractive opportunities are also available in the package supply industries. Package supplier industries include companies that print and convert paper and flexible plastic materials as well as manufacturers of such diverse items as bottles, cans, folding cartons, corrugated boxes, drums, wooden containers, pallets, pails, tubes, vials, and jars. Packaging impacts most functions in manufacturing firms so graduates may work in package development, production, quality control, research, sales, purchasing, marketing, testing, distribution, or technical services.
In its flexibility, the program allows students to leverage their personal skills and interests and to make individualized choices. Two concentrations are offered: Packaging Science and Packaging Value Chain Management. The Packaging Science concentration focuses on the technical needs of packaging while the Packaging Value Chain Management concentration focuses on the role of packaging in the value chain and the need to understand economics and business functions. Elective courses provide focused study in specific areas of the packaging industry.
Admission as a Junior
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Subjects
- Supply
- Materials
- Packaging
- Industry
- Value chain
- GCSE Physics
- Production
Course programme
Survey of Organic Chemistry
Chemistry Laboratory I
Principles of Packaging
Introductory Packaging Seminar
Packaging with Glass and Metal
Packaging Decision Systems
Packaging with Paper and Paperboard
Packaging with Plastics
Distribution Packaging Dynamics
Package Development Technology
Packaging Development (W)
Introductory Physics I
Introductory Physics II
One of the following courses (3 credits):
Food Safety and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point Program
Fundamentals of Microbiology
A course used to fulfill this requirement may not be used to fulfill a requirement in the Packaging Science concentration.
One of the following courses (3 or 4 credits):
Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Business
Probability and Statistics for Engineering
One of the following courses (3 credits):
Introduction to Marketing
Survey of Supply Chain Management
A course used to fulfill this requirement may not be used to fulfill a requirement in the Packaging Value Chain Management concentration.
One of the following concentrations (18 or 19 credits):
One of the following courses (4 credits):
Completion of 6 credits of electives in packaging. Enrollment in a packaging internship completed under PKG 493 (up to 3 credits) and enrollment in a packaging overseas study program completed under PKG 491 (up to 3 credits) may be used towards this requirement with advisor approval.
Completion of 9 credits of electives from the following with at least one course at the 300-level or above:
Introduction to Biochemistry
Principles of Food Science
Food Processing: Unit Operations
Food Safety and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point Program
Food Laws and Regulations
Fundamental of Microbiology
Introductory Microbiology
Introductory for General and Allied Health Microbiology
Statistics for Biologists
Bayesian Statistical Methods
Other courses with department approval.
Courses used to fulfill a concentration requirement may not be used to fulfill requirement 3. b. above.
Packaging Value Chain Management
The following course (3 credits):
Packaging Value Chain
Completion of 6 credits of electives in packaging. Enrollment in a packaging internship completed under PKG 493 (up to 3 credits) and enrollment in a packaging overseas study program completed under PKG 491 (up to 3 credits) may be used towards this requiremement with advisor approval.
Completion of 9 credits of electives from the following:
Intermediate Microeconomics
Intermediate Macroeconomics
Private Enterprise and Public Policy
Introduction to Finance
Introduction to Business Law
Management Skills and Processes
Introduction to Marketing
Survey of Supply Chain Management
Other courses with department approval.
Courses used to fulfill a concentration requirement may not be used to fulfill requirement 3. d. above.
Packaging