It is a broad field connected to any part of the process of designing, producing, and marketing pharmaceuticals. Basically this field comes under Chemical engineering and is involved in the discovery, design and development of parts and products within pharmaceutical industry. Pharmaceutical engineering utilizes the concept of both biology and biochemistry to design, develop, and manufacture pharmaceutical drugs. Those who work in this field are referred as Pharmaceutical Engineers.

After this degree you can easily get employed in pharmaceutical industry, in R&D labs, designing quality drugs for diseases, production and quality systems, biomedical industries. They can find jobs in biopharmaceutical plants, biotechnological plants and Pharmaceutical manufacturing industries. GlaxoSmithKline, Lupin, Dabur Pharma, Ranbaxy Labs, Merck and Cipla are some of the prominent pharmaceutical companies that employ pharmaceutical engineers. Nowadays cosmetic industry needs people from this area of technology. Pharmaceutical engineers also have an option of teaching in colleges/ universities.



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