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The OPEx professional master celebrates its 15th anniversary during the meeting “Chimiométrie 2013”

 OPEx is a professional Master of Science and Technology. The goal of this master is to give the students strong proficiencies of chemometrics and quality assurance to be subsequently applied in the industry with the aim of improving, monitoring or controlling the quality of a product or an industrial process.

The educational and scientific objectives of OPEx are to make the students familiar with the use of statistical data analysis in chemometrics applications. The following aspects are handled in this master:

• Design of experiments in order to identify in a cost-effective way which variables are important for the quality of a product or a process and how to find the optimal combination of the variables that yields the best result.
• Extraction of information from data analysis: principal component analysis (PCA), data pre-processing, multivariate calibration (MLR, PCR, PLS) and classification techniques.  
• Quality management and quality assurance
• Method validation and metrology
• Scientific software: MATLAB and SAS
• Spectroscopy and Instrumentation
• Career preparation

The professional aim of the master is to complete the 4-years initial cursus in Chemistry (or similar speciality) with 6-months education in statistical data analysis and quality assurance and a 6-months internship which is mainly carried out in the pharmaceutical, petrochemical and agribusiness industries. After the master, the students find jobs in various professions and sectors: Laboratory Analysis, Quality, R&D centres, Industrial Manufactory, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Health, Cosmetics, agribusiness, consulting and expert assessment. This is already the case for the 200 students who graduated the Master since 1998.