What does the pharmaceutical engineering program do?

Institution:

Basic Duration: 4 Years | Enrollment: | Education: Junior College | Specialty Code: 081302

Cultivation Objectives

Cultivation Objectives: This program cultivates professional engineering talents who are capable of adapting to the development of the pharmaceutical industry by developing morally, intellectually, physically, and other aspects of all-around development. Graduates of this program should have professional knowledge of pharmaceutical engineering and the ability to engage in the technological development, engineering design and quality management of pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical excipients, pharmaceutical intermediates and other related products, and should have good professional ethics, a high sense of social responsibility, a strong sense of product quality, and a certain degree of internationalization and social communication ability, and be able to work in the production enterprises of pharmaceuticals and their related fields, They will be able to engage in product development, engineering design, production technology and quality management, and scientific and technical services in pharmaceutical and related fields, or enter this discipline and related disciplines for further study.

Cultivation Requirements: Students of this major mainly study the basic theory and basic knowledge of pharmaceutical production and manufacturing, product development, engineering design and production technology and quality management, and receive training in professional experimental skills, process research and engineering design of the basic science and engineering methodology, and master the basic ability to engage in pharmaceutical research and development, pharmaceutical process design and scale-up, pharmaceutical production quality and management. The program is designed to provide students with the basic skills to engage in pharmaceutical research and development, pharmaceutical process design and scale-up, pharmaceutical production quality and management.

Graduates should acquire the following knowledge and abilities:

1. good professional ethics, strong patriotism and dedication, high sense of social responsibility and profound humanities and science literacy;

2. knowledge of natural sciences and a certain degree of knowledge of economics and management required to engage in pharmaceutical engineering;

3. good quality management, environmental protection, occupational safety and social security;

4. good quality management, environmental protection, occupational safety and social security. Have a good sense of quality management, environmental protection, occupational safety and social service;

4. Master the basic theory and technology of pharmaceutical manufacturing, the basic principles and methods of engineering design and production quality management (Good Manufacturing Practice, GMP) and control of basic knowledge, master the pharmaceutical production process development and workshop design methods and principles. Understand the development of pharmaceutical engineering disciplines and the forefront of the development of pharmaceutical production of new processes, new technologies and new equipment development;

5. Can comprehensively apply the learned scientific theories of pharmaceutical engineering, analyze and solve the pharmaceutical engineering problems, with the ability to solve practical problems in pharmaceutical engineering;

6. Have the new resources for pharmaceuticals, new products and new processes for the research, development and design of the initial ability, with a good pioneering spirit, with the ability to develop the new resources, new products and new processes. Initial ability to research, develop and design new resources, new products and new processes for pharmaceuticals, with good pioneering spirit and sense of innovation, and the ability to acquire new professional knowledge;

7. Understanding of many technical standards in the field of pharmaceutical engineering, and familiar with national policies and regulations on drug production, drug safety, environmental protection, social responsibility, etc.;

8. Good ability in organization and management, communication, environmental adaptation and teamwork.

9. Initial ability to respond to emergencies in drug production, use and public **** health;

10. Initial ability to have a certain degree of international perspective and cross-cultural environment of communication, competition and cooperation.

Main subjects: chemistry, pharmacy, pharmaceutical engineering and technology.

Core Knowledge Areas: Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Biochemistry, Engineering Drawing, Principles of Chemical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Processing, and Pharmaceutical Equipment and Plant Design.

Examples of Core Courses:

Example 1: Modern Basic Chemistry (128 hours), Analytical Chemistry (64 hours), Organic Chemistry (160 hours), Physical Chemistry (144 hours), Biochemistry (48 hours), Engineering Graphics (56 hours), Fundamentals of Mechanical Design of Process Equipment (72 hours), Principles of Chemical Engineering (186 hours), Pharmacology (32 hours), Pharmaceutical Chemistry (32 hours), and Pharmaceutical Processing (32 hours). 32 hours), medicinal chemistry (48 hours), drug analysis (32 hours), drug synthesis (48 hours), pharmaceutical technology (32 hours), pharmaceutical engineering (208 hours), pharmaceutical production quality management standards (32 hours), industrial pharmacy (32 hours), pharmaceutical engineering laboratory (160 hours).

Example 2: Introduction to Pharmaceutical Engineering (32 hours), Biochemistry (56 hours), Biochemistry Laboratory (48 hours), Pharmaceutical Chemistry (bilingual) (48 hours), Industrial Pharmaceutics (32 hours), Pharmaceutical Processing (64 hours), Pharmaceutical Production Quality Management Engineering (32 hours), Pharmaceutical Separation Engineering (bilingual) (48 hours), Pharmaceutical Equipment and Engineering Design (32 hours), Professional Laboratory (160 hours). (32 hours), specialized experiments (64 hours).

Example 3: Drug Synthesis Reaction (48 hours), Medicinal Chemistry (40 hours), Natural Medicinal Chemistry (40 hours), Pharmaceutical Processing (Bilingual) (32 hours), Pharmaceutical Reaction Engineering (40 hours), Pharmaceutical Separation Technology (32 hours), Pharmaceutical Process Design (40 hours), and Pharmaceutical Laboratory (56 hours).

The main practical teaching links: basic chemistry experiments, pharmaceutical engineering experiments, internship, production internship, chemical engineering principle course design, pharmaceutical machinery course design, pharmaceutical equipment and workshop course design, graduation design (thesis).

Major experiments: basic chemistry experiment, chemical principle experiment, drug synthesis experiment, drug analysis experiment and pharmaceutical engineering experiment.

The duration of study: four years.

Degree: Bachelor of Engineering. 0814 Geology

Occupational Ability Requirements

Main Content of Specialized Teaching

Drug Synthesis, Pharmaceutical Engineering, Experiment of Drug Analysis, Experiment of Pharmacology, Pharmaceuticals in Biotechnology, Enzyme Engineering and Protein Engineering, Bio-Separation Engineering, Pharmaceutical Botany and Biological Engineering. , "Medicinal Botany and Pharmacology", "Industrial Pharmacy", "Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine" Some colleges and universities train according to the following specialties: ethnopharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals, food and drug safety, traditional Chinese medicine and natural medicine.

Professional (Skill) Direction

Pharmaceutical enterprises: drug research and development, drug production, drug testing, pharmaceutical analysis, drug management, pharmacist, drug marketing.

Examples of vocational qualifications

Examples of further study majors

Employment Direction

Pharmaceutical engineering is developing rapidly as a high-tech based industry. Globally, the growth rate of the pharmaceutical market in developed economies is picking up, the demand for emerging pharmaceutical markets is strong, and the proportion of chemical generics in the structure of medicines is increasing, which brings new opportunities for the development of pharmaceuticals. As far as China is concerned, medical technology is developing rapidly and is in line with international standards, and a large number of drugs have been introduced from abroad. At the same time, with the improvement of people's living standards and health awareness, as well as the emergence of new diseases caused by the complex living environment (e.g., air, water, soil pollution, etc.), the human demand for drugs to prevent and cure diseases is also increasing, which further promotes the pharmaceutical market to grow faster. During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, the state has introduced a series of pharmaceutical policies, such as the "Pharmaceutical Industry Development Planning Guidelines" will target the major market needs, and promote the development of biopharmaceuticals, chemical drugs, traditional Chinese medicines, medical devices and other key areas. In the field of chemical drugs focusing on new chemical drugs, chemical generics, high-end preparations, clinical shortages of drugs to increase R & D efforts to achieve key breakthroughs. From the current overall situation of the industry, in a word, this professional employment prospects are stable and long-term good.

Sunshine college entrance examination platform statistics show that as of December 30, 2015, the pharmaceutical engineering major national general college graduates scale is 14,000-16,000 people, the employment rate is 75%-80%.

Many well-known colleges and universities the professional employment rate is even higher. Beijing University of Chemical Technology School of Life Professor Liang introduced, the school's pharmaceutical engineering major employment rate perennial stayed above 97%. Among them, nearly half of the students choose to continue to graduate school, in addition, state-owned enterprises, foreign enterprises, institutions, government departments, etc. is also the choice of students employment.

Shenyang Pharmaceutical University School of Pharmaceutical Engineering, Secretary Liu introduced, pharmaceutical engineering major employment areas include: innovative research and new product development of chemical drugs; domestic and foreign pharmaceutical new technology transformation, localization, industrialization; products for technological transformation, process research, quality control, etc.. Pharmaceutical industry is an extremely strict regulation of the industry, the graduates of the higher academic and scientific research ability requirements. Students can obtain qualifications such as drug inspector and dietitian during their school years to increase future employment opportunities.

The main employment destinations of graduates

Students can work in a wide range of industries related to pharmaceuticals after graduation, including:

1. Drug research and development personnel - in pharmaceutical factories, universities, and research institutes in the research department, engaged in drug research and development;

2. Production, Technical personnel - in pharmaceutical factories, engaged in drug production, technical work;

3. Quality inspection and laboratory personnel - in the drug laboratory, pharmaceutical companies, food factories engaged in food and drug quality inspection and laboratory testing, quality identification and development of appropriate quality standards;

4. management personnel - in pharmaceutical factories, engaged in the production of drugs, technical management and other work;

5. marketing personnel - in pharmaceutical factories, pharmaceutical marketing companies, engaged in drug marketing, housekeeping and other work;

6. pharmacists -- in hospital pharmacy, engaged in preparation, quality control, clinical pharmacy and other work; in the pharmacy, pharmaceutical marketing company, engaged in the use of drugs guidance and counseling and other work;

7. Drug supervisors -- civil servants, in the national, provincial, municipal and county drug Drug supervisors - civil servants, in national, provincial, municipal and county drug supervision bureaus, engaged in food and drug quality supervision and other work;

8. Nutritionist - receive professional knowledge and skills training, through the national vocational qualification examination certification of the emerging profession.

Corresponding Occupations (Positions)

Other Information:

Pharmaceutical Engineering is an engineering specialty at the crossroads of Chemistry, Biology, Pharmacy (Traditional Chinese Medicine), and Engineering, which is aimed at cultivating talents engaged in the research and development and manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, and in the development, amplification, and design of new processes, new equipments, and new species. Although the pharmaceutical engineering program is new in name, but from the disciplinary evolution of its generation is not entirely new, is the continuation of similar professions, but also the product of China's scientific and technological development. Introduction to pharmaceutical engineering Before the formal emergence of the name of pharmaceutical engineering, domestic universities have set up their own conditions based on the related professions, such as chemical pharmaceuticals, Chinese medicine, antimicrobials, fine chemicals, microbiological pharmaceuticals, etc. These majors are set up in the pharmaceutical sciences. Some of these majors are set up in pharmaceutical universities, some are set up in comprehensive universities, and more are set up in universities of science and technology. Of course, due to the different nature of the competent institutions, the focus of these specialties is also different. In terms of specialization, the new pharmaceutical engineering program is a broad-bore program that covers the fields of chemical pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals, and traditional Chinese medicines. Before 1998, there have been similar majors with pharmaceutical engineering, such as antimicrobial agents, microbial pharmaceuticals, etc., which should have a great deal of origin with the emergence of the pharmaceutical engineering profession, the original existing chemical pharmaceuticals, of course, without exception, into the pharmaceutical engineering profession. Some pharmaceutical colleges and universities set up microbiological pharmaceuticals, from the Ministry of Education's categorization, the specialty should be incorporated into the biological engineering, in fact, some institutions still choose to be more similar to the pharmaceutical engineering profession. 1997, Hefei University of Technology and Anhui College of Traditional Chinese Medicine jointly founded a five-year pharmaceutical engineering program, the implementation of the system of learning in the two schools separately. This is China's first pharmaceutical engineering program. Hefei University of Technology, as the pioneer of pharmaceutical engineering, laid the foundation for the development of this specialty. When the new undergraduate catalog was issued in 1998, at the same time when the pharmaceutical engineering major appeared in the undergraduate catalog, the fine chemical industry, a very popular major in chemical industry, disappeared from the catalog. According to statistics, at that time, there were at least 174 colleges and universities with fine chemical engineering majors, and many of these fine chemical engineering majors took the synthesis and preparation of chemical drugs as an important content. Therefore, although according to the new professional catalog, fine chemical industry should be enrolled in the name of chemical engineering and technology majors, but in fact there are still a considerable number of fine chemical industry majors look at the direction of pharmaceutical engineering, converted into pharmaceutical engineering majors. In the early stage of setting up the pharmaceutical engineering profession, can catch up with the beat of the institutions of higher learning is not much, mainly some of the original chemical and pharmaceutical engineering universities and the original set of pharmacy class specialties in science universities. As people pay more and more attention to the "medicine" as a special product, many colleges and universities are very optimistic about this specialty, through the transformation or the formation of a new pharmaceutical engineering program. As of 2015, China's pharmaceutical engineering undergraduate professional schools from the original 1997 Hefei University of Technology and Anhui College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the first one, there are nearly 280, including 15 national characteristics of the specialty, 15 national program, through the international equivalence of engineering education accreditation of 5. As of June 2015, only the East China University of Science and Technology and Hefei University of Technology have all three in one pharmaceutical engineering program. What is the employment prospect of pharmaceutical engineering The pharmaceutical industry has become the focus of competition among the world's economic powers, and many countries in the world regard the establishment of the pharmaceutical industry as a symbol of national strength. The continuous discovery of new drugs and the tremendous progress in therapeutic methods (e.g., genetic research) have led to very significant changes in the pharmaceutical industry. As a result, there is a need for a new breed of pharmaceutical engineers, both in pharmaceuticals and in process technology, who are up-to-date with the latest technologies and cross-disciplinary knowledge, who have the knowledge and ability to position pharmaceutical processes and products in both directions, and who are aware of the intensive industrial information and familiar with global and national policies and regulations. As already mentioned, in 2003, there were 5,082 pharmaceutical enterprises*** in China, about 3,000 industrial enterprises producing drugs, more than 300 biochemical pharmaceutical enterprises, of which 47 are modern biopharmaceutical enterprises, and about 1,600 enterprises producing traditional Chinese medicines (including natural medicines), of which 155 specialize in the production of traditional Chinese medicines (including natural medicines). In addition, there are more than 167,000 drug wholesalers, 120,000 drug retailers and 60,000 medical institutions. All of these enterprises have a large demand for pharmaceutical engineering professionals.