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SAVELSKI and  \nC. STEWART SLATER  \nDepartment of Chemical Engineering Rowan University  \nGlassboro, NJ  \nABSTRACT  \nTextbook style problems including detailed solutions introducing pharmaceutical topics at the level of an introductory chemical engineering course have been created. The problems illustrate and teach subjects which students would learn if they were to pursue a career in pharmaceutical engineering, including the unique terminology of the field, common unit operations, calculations pertaining to drug manufacturing, and some of the specific concerns of the industry such as regulations and testing. Over seventy problems have been created; selected problems have been administered to students and their impact evaluated. Students demonstrated significant gains in knowledge of pharmaceutical engineering topics.  \nKeywords: Pharmaceutical engineering, drug manufacture, problem sets  \nINTRODUCTION  \nThe American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) recommended in 1994[1] that engineering programs should relate to the needs of its community, including the industries in which its graduates are employed. Graduates of Chemical Engineering programs have traditionally been employed in oil, commodity chemical or specialty chemical industries, but in recent years chemical engineers have emerged as essential contributors with an expanding role in other industries such as biotechnology  \nWINTER 2012 1  \nADVANCES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION  \nIntroductory Level Problems Illustrating Concepts in Pharmaceutical Engineering  \nand pharmaceuticals [2], [3] . A 2005 survey for Chemical Engineering Progress [4] showed the pharmaceutical industry as one of the top five employers of chemical engineers. In the United States, the pharmaceutical industry employs one eighth of all chemical engineers, second only to the chemical process industry [4] . The pharmaceutical industry has traditionally focused heavily on research and development, but with fewer marketable drugs being discovered, there has been a shift to the optimization of existing production processes [5] . The role of chemical engineering in pharmaceutical production has therefore expanded requiring the inclusion of pharmaceutical engineering concepts in chemical engineering courses [3] . Attempts to add pharmaceutical engineering to the chemical engineering curriculum have commonly been made in the form of new upper-level and graduate courses specific to the pharmaceutical industry, such as pharmaceutical process development [6], or by teaching lessons specifically related to pharmaceutical topics. Graduate-level educational materials (lecture-based slides sets) have been published on the pharmaHUB website [6] and are related to unit operations used in pharmaceutical processes, solid-liquid separation techniques, nanopharmaceutical materials, or liquid-liquid and liquid-solid mixing equipment. These materials serve as lectures on specific segments of the pharmaceutical industry within an upper-level or graduate chemical engineering course.  \nTherefore, it is educationally useful and desirable to expose chemical engineering students to the field in early foundation courses such as their introductory material and energy balance course. Creating a pharmaceutically-oriented problem set that covers all of the topics in an introductory material and energy balance course allows for an integrated approach to exposing students to the pharmaceutical industry. Students will become familiar with pharmaceutical unit operations and terminology over the course of a semester instead of a short glimpse of it in one single lesson. This approach requires no additional curriculum modifications such as new ","cbCaip9Ox8VxnG7G","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaip9Ox8VxnG7G","pdf",1021534,21,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Educational rationale\n## Course alignment with material and energy balance","[{\"question\":\"What topics do the introductory problem sets cover in pharmaceutical engineering?\",\"answer\":\"They cover pharmaceutical terminology, common unit operations, drug manufacturing calculations, and industry concerns including regulations and testing.\"},{\"question\":\"How were the problems developed and evaluated?\",\"answer\":\"Over seventy textbook-style problems with detailed solutions were created. Selected problems were administered to students and their impact on learning was evaluated.\"},{\"question\":\"Why are pharmaceutical engineering concepts suited to introductory material and energy balance courses?\",\"answer\":\"These courses already teach core engineering thought processes and equations that can be connected to pharmaceutical unit operations and process considerations, enabling an integrated exposure over a semester.\"}]","Introductory Level Problems Illustrating Concepts in Pharmaceutical Engineering | PDF",1792067302,53]