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Hello, everyone.

My name is Rachel Hill.

I'm a sophomore here in the chemical engineering program at

Lamar University, and today I have the pleasure of talking

to all of you about chemical engineering within the pharmaceutical

industry. So today we're going to take a deeper look

and just what the pharmaceutical industry is, what they dio.

The roles.

Chemical engineers can work within the pharmaceutical industry skills of

chemical engineer needs and or can bring to a pharmaceutical

team how they can apply these skills to their workday

task in the pharmaceutical industry.

What a pharmaceutical engineer is in their technical job description,

as well as how to obtain a pharmaceutical engineering position

in the industry.

By the end of this presentation, I hope to have

been lined all of you with new information on chemical

engineering within the pharmaceutical industry and possibly influence someone's future

path as a chemical and or pharmaceutical engineer.

So what is the pharmaceutical engineering industry you may ask?

Well, the pharmaceutical industry is a heavily regulated industry by

bodies such as the F D A and M H

R A, whose duties are to discover, develop, produced and

market drugs or pharmaceutical drugs for uses medications to be

administered by doctors or self administered to patients with the

aim to cure them, vaccinate them or alleviate their symptoms.

Pharmaceutical companies may deal in generic or brand name medications

or medical devices and are subject to a variety of

laws and regulations that govern patenting, testing, safety, efficiency in

the marketing of drugs.

With such heavy regulations and strict laws, there is a

need for engineers who can ensure the processes on site

adhered to regulations, including GMP good manufacturing practices.

And this press process is needed to be done on

both the manufacturing level and at the laboratory stages, such

as research and development and quality control or quality assurance

testing as well.

So the roles chemical engineers can work inside the pharmaceutical

industry because they are needed at every stage of a

vast set of processes can include process engineering, plant engineering,

product development, research and development.

Like I mentioned earlier testing and quality control, manufacturing and

production, engineering, quality and validation, engineering, project management and design

engineering, as well as numerous others.

With such a wide range of chemical processes and manufacturing

equipment being used, it's no wonder why chemical engineers play

such an important role in the development and manufacture of

pharmaceutical products.

There are a number of departments that can benefit from

these skills that a chemical engineer can bring to the

team, including applicable transferrable skills when working with production and

packing equipment.

And that's just to name one.

There's many, many others.

So the skills a chemical engineer needs or can bring

to the team would be analytical skills to research and

make sense of encountered issues, a need to know how

to disassemble problems and determine what questions asked and find

solutions to said problems.

They also need computer skills because chemical engineers use computers

and technologically advanced equipment to test experiment and document results.

And they need strong computer skills as most used database

and spreadsheet applications, alone with enterprise level software to monitor

and, uh and record their project findings.

So they also need innovation because chemical engineers constantly strive

to devise new solutions to problems, which is why they

must be innovative and creative in order to develop new

ideas and invent original processes.

So they also need interpersonal skills because they often collaborate

with other colleagues throughout all of the manufacturing processes and

they need excellent interpersonal skills because they must build relationships

to increase the impact and improve the success of their

projects. They also need math and science skills.

Because the use of biology, chemistry, physics and other advanced

math concepts and their daily work means that they much

applied these concepts, they must apply these concepts as they

research and design equipment methods they also need.

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They also need problem solving skills, and this is a

big one because they developed processes and materials.

Chemical engineers need advanced problem solving skills for this so

that they can anticipate and resolve any potential issues that

arise during the projects.

After all, chemical engineers who can identify problems in advance

typically produce more successful products than those who cannot.

And this is just to name a few.

The helpful skills and engineer must have to be an

asset to any industry, including the pharmaceutical industry.

How can they apply these skills to their daily work

task in the pharmaceutical industry?

Well, since chemical engineers use math and science to address

problems including chemicals, food, fuel and other products, especially pharmaceuticals,

They develop manufacturing equipment, materials, processes and oversee production methods

as well.

They research existing manufacturing processes.

Chemical Engineer is meet with teams and clients to determine

manufacturing needs and goals.

They research existing processes and consider methods for improving these

processes. And productivity's a lower cost, and they meet other

objective objectives as well.

And then they also designed new equipment processes.

So after conducting research, the chemical engineers use chemical reactions

to develop new ways to separate the basic components of

elements like liquids and gasses.

And they also design and use equipment to perform these

processes so they kind of do it all.

They test and troubleshoot manufacturing designs.

So once they complete the research and development phases, chemical

engineers build prototypes and they test their designs.

They resolve any problems with the processes or equipment and

develop modified designs from said prototypes.

So they also advised about safety protocols because they work

with chemicals and processes that could be very dangerous.

Chemical engineers oversee safety procedures and comply with any environmental

regulations set by the FDA or M H R.

They may advise colleagues about protocols or change equipment designs

to eliminate any safety issues, so no one gets hurt

during the process.

They also collaborate with other engineering teams, and they often

undertake large projects with teams rather than doing the projects

on their own.

So they work closely and communicate regularly with other chemical

engineers, product managers and manufacturing colleagues.

That's why they have so many meetings throughout their daily

work day.

So pharmaceutical engineers are a type of chemical engineer who

concentrate on formulating new medications for mass production.

They help ensure all compounds being synthesized for uses medications

are safe and meet strict strict quality standards and guidelines

set forth by the F D A and M H

R A.

So, in addition to finding new ways to replicate natural

compounds at the production scale and identifying any possible delivery

methods such as extended release tablets and so on, they,

um, like other engineers, they combine their skills and mathematics,

economics and physics to solve problems with manufacturing of products.

So, unlike other sub fields of engineering, they integrate knowledge

and expertise of chemistry to solve issues involving the use

of drugs as well of so many other projects products

we use in our daily lives, they must have a

thorough understanding of manufacturing processes as well, because they also

need to know how things are built.

They also need to have environment and safety procedures.

Thio ensure products are safe for consumers and are vital

members of the manufacturing teams that produces all of the

chemicals, drugs and products that human society depends on every

single day.

So the technical job description of a pharmaceutical engineer.

They used their knowledge and biology and engineering to study

and develop and test a variety of drug treatments and

medications. These professionals may also specialize in a particular area

in pharmaceutical engineering, including design, quality, product delivery or regulatory

requirements, areas that are most common in larger organizations rather

than smaller ones.

But the exact job duties will depend on the industry

and that that the individual works in so the individual

can work for.

A variety of industries, including universities, laboratories, other pharmaceutical companies

and pharmaceutical engineers, could be involved in the development of

new treatments and drugs.

That may need to focus and study on, um, new

treatments to assist in the creation of regulatory regulations for

safe use of pharmaceutical drugs.

So individuals focusing on regulation will assist in the development

of governing guidelines for medical use, so individuals who focus

on the development side of new treatments will use chemical

and biological materials to create prototypes and tri ALS samples.

So they will test these trial samples to determine their

effectiveness and then strategize new ways to improve the treatment

or medicine without using a large number of the so

called chemicals.

So they do trial samples.

That way, they're not wasteful, and if it doesn't work

out, they're not using all their resource is which.

That one's my favorite part.

So do you want to obtain a pharmaceutical pharmaceutical engineering

position? So the pharmaceutical industry is seen as a safe

bet during unstable markets, including regular market times, because there

is a need for new medications essentially every day.

So with this in mind, it has never been a

better time for chemical engineers to take a role within

the pharmaceutical sector.

As the pharmaceutical industry is heavily regulated, chemical engineers with

experience in this sector have a large number of transferrable

skills for less regulated sectors, including plants and other small

engineering companies.

Soto work as a pharmaceutical engineer.

You may need at least okay, you will need at

least a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and In addition,

you may also want to work on attaining a graduate

masters degree for better job opportunities.

Those with Masters degree do have better job prospects compared

to those who solely have a bachelor's degree, such as

higher pay, better work environment, bigger bonuses.

And that's just to name a couple.

So engineering is a trade that requires individuals to have

a strong mathematical skill.

For example, individuals who know that they want Thio enter

this profession as early as high school.

They will need to focus solely, not solely.

But they will need to focus on mathematical and science

courses such as chemistry, biology and physics, because this will

help them gain the foundation of math that they used

extensively in the engineering professions.

So once enrolled in an undergraduate program, individuals who want

to become a pharmaceutical engineer will need toe focus their

degree on either engineering or biomedical engineering.

So a degree in biomedical engineering includes the curriculum that

focuses on the chemical engineering aspect and the biological sciences

Well, so many courses are focused in a laboratory of

classroom setting in which students will learn a variety of

topics, including bio materials, circuit design, computer programming fluid and

solid mechanics and individuals who do not study biomechanics.

As an undergraduate, they'll have prospects and seeking a position

as a pharmaceutical engineer because at the end of the

day, pharmaceutical, biomedical and chemical engineering are almost identical to

each other, and they require the same task and the

same degree.

So here are all of my work cited Page.

All of these were used to make this presentation today,

and to conclude this presentation, I hope all of you

were enlightened as we took a deeper look into what

the pharmaceutical industry is, what they dio.

The roles Chemical engineers can work within the pharmaceutical industry

skills a chemical engineer needs and or can bring to

the pharmaceutical team how they can apply these skills to

their workday test in the pharmaceutical industry.

What a pharmaceutical engineer is and their technical job description

how to obtain a pharmaceutical engineering position in the industry

as well.

And hopefully I was able to possibly influence someone's future

path as a chemical and or pharmaceutical engineer.

Thank you so much for listening, and I hope all

of you have a wonderful day and I am now

open to any questions you may have

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