One of the greatest challenges of the pharmaceutical industry is to design and optimize manufacturing processes for the efficient and safe production of pharmaceutical products. To achieve this, a new type of professionals must be trained who are fluent in the language of basic chemical process engineering principles and are knowledgeable in the engineering science and unit operations of pharmaceutical manufacturing such as blending, crystallization, compaction, sampling and granulation. The program s purpose is to provide predoctoral students with integrated, interdisciplinary didactic and research training in pharmaceutical engineering. The research programs of the training faculty cover a broad spectrum of problems in pharmaceutical manufacturing. The training program is in the heart of the largest concentration of pharmaceutical industries in the country.
Students spend at least one summer as an intern working in one of the partner's laboratories.
This serves to familiarize the students with practical problems encountered by industry. This serves to promote interactions between industrial faculty and students. This allows the students to gain insights into the complexities involved in pharmaceutical technological development.