Analysis of chemical and pharmaceutical majors and employment

Chemical Engineering and Technology

Chemical engineering and technology is an engineering discipline that studies the common laws in the production process of chemical industry and produces chemical products by changing the composition or properties of substances by chemical methods.

This major consists of two aspects: chemical engineering and chemical processes. Chemical engineering is mainly to study the chemical and physical processes carried out in the chemical industry, to explore the principles and equipment methods of chemical product processing; Chemical technology mainly studies the conversion of raw materials into products, and the optimization of chemical processing methods is really used in practice.

For example, in the preparation and synthesis of shampoos, detergents, and cosmetics, we will first study how to rectify, absorb, extract, and filter during the production process. After that, based on the research and analysis of the principle process and equipment, design a new chemical product, and then use CAD, Aspen software to produce drawings, and finally large-scale production of products. This is basically what chemical engineering and technology majors do.

Pharmaceutical engineering

Pharmaceutical engineering is a kind of engineering technology to mass produce drugs, mainly to solve the engineering and technical problems in the process of drug production and the quality management of drug production. It is an engineering major that crosses chemistry, pharmacy (Chinese pharmacy) and engineering.

Students are required to master the knowledge of chemical pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, Chinese medicine pharmaceutical, pharmaceutical preparation technology and engineering; Master the technology and equipment design method of drug production equipment; And has the initial ability to research, develop and design new resources, new products and new dosage forms of drugs.

What is the difference between Pharmaceutical Engineering/Biopharmaceutical/Pharmaceutical?

Pharmaceutical engineering belongs to engineering and is a second-level discipline under the first-level discipline of chemical engineering and pharmaceutical engineering. The basic courses are mainly medicine and the four major chemistry (organic, inorganic, physicochemical and analysis). It mainly studies the principle, method and equipment of large-scale production of chemical drugs.

Biopharmaceutical belongs to engineering and is a second-level discipline under the first-level discipline of biological engineering. The curriculum is based on the knowledge of microbiology, biology, medicine, biochemistry and pharmacy. It mainly studies the mass production of drugs related to organisms, biological tissues, cells, organs, etc., such as insulin.

Pharmacy is a first-level discipline under medical science. It studies all types of drugs, with drug research and development as its main content. The courses include some basic medicine, clinical medicine, chemistry, biology and pharmacy specialized courses. They all fall under the umbrella of pharmaceutical research.

Resource recycling science and engineering

Resource recycling science and Engineering is an emerging interdisciplinary major established in 2010 in order to meet the urgent demand for high-quality talents in strategic emerging industries such as national energy conservation and emission reduction, low-carbon economy and circular economy. It involves the intersection and integration of many disciplines such as environmental science, economy and management.

Students will master the basic theory and basic knowledge of new materials and new energy; Have the ability of process design and equipment selection for identifying, recycling, processing, preliminary processing and deep processing materials, as well as the management ability to organize production and control quality; With comprehensive utilization of four major renewable resources, the development and research of new solid waste composite materials and products.

Energy chemical engineering

Energy chemical engineering is a new major based on chemical engineering and technology, which focuses on how to use energy and cause less harm to nature. Research interests: Clean energy transformation, coal chemical industry, petrochemical industry, gas and natural gas engineering, environmental catalysis, green synthesis, new energy utilization and chemical transformation environmental chemical industry.

Chemical engineering and industrial bioengineering

The major of Chemical Engineering and Industrial Biological engineering is based on the basic theories of biology, chemistry and engineering, using enzyme engineering, cell engineering and fermentation engineering to study the production process of biological products, develop new bioengineering products and analyze and measure the technology of biological products.

The aim is to train senior professionals who can engage in scientific research, product and process design, new technology and equipment research and development, and technical management in the field of chemical engineering and biotechnology, and can base themselves on serving traditional petrochemical industries such as petrochemical industry, environmental protection, energy, food, and emerging industries such as biological engineering and technology, biochemical engineering, and biomedical engineering.