Overview

The Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering program from Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) enables you to conduct high-quality research nationally and internationally and to develop innovative chemical and pharmaceutical production systems for industry.

You can deepen your knowledge in the following areas of specialisation:

• Pharmaceutical Engineering: You acquire knowledge of pharmaceutical product and process technology and learn how to develop pharmaceutical products more rapidly and reduce production costs. You learn, for example, how to address aspects of process engineering in the production of pharmaceuticals, plant engineering, or biotechnology.
• Chemical Engineering: You learn how to carry out interdisciplinary work, bridging the gap between the disciplines of chemistry and process engineering. You gain expertise in product and process design. As one example, you learn how to use renewable resources in the chemical industry in economically sensible and sustainable ways.

Careers

Graduates who specialise in Chemical Engineering work in the chemical and petrochemical industry, e.g.

• in research,
• product and process development,
• plant design and production.

You address all aspects of the plant planning and operation, such as economic efficiency, ecology and safety engineering.

Graduates who specialise in Pharmaceutical Engineering work in the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry and represent a link between drug development and production. They are involved, for example

• with pharmaceutical process development,
• quality assurance in production areas and
• the introduction of new production processes.

In chemical and pharmaceutical research, they develop new methods for drug production and work on topics such as nanotechnology and process simulation.