Biochemical Engineering: Career, Placements and Education Information

What is Biochemical Engineering?

Biochemical Engineering is a branch of Chemical Engineering or Biological Engineering. It is a branch of engineering that deals with the design and construction of unit processes that involve biological organisms or molecules. It is similar in nature to Chemical Engineering or Biological Engineering. The objective of this branch is to train students in biochemical engineering, biotechnology, microbial and enzyme systems. This will help them in understanding the biological or biochemical phenomena of these systems. Biochemical Engineering also deals with the kinetics of growth, death and metabolism, fermentation, agitation, mass transfer and enzyme technology. 

Scope of Biochemical Engineering?

• Biochemical engineers also supervise the small and intermediate-scale manufacturing and packaging activities in pharmaceutical product development for clinical trial purposes.
• Food and beverage companies, agriculture and chemical industries, waste management firms, petroleum oil and gas fields, biomedical firms, engineering design companies, and pharmaceutical companies offer good prospects for biochemical engineers.
• They also work closely with process chemists and control engineers to ensure the process plant is set up to provide maximum output levels. 
• Except laboratories, biochemical engineers can involve in the overall supervision of a plant, apart from providing technical and management services.

Placements

• Aniaaz Consulting Private Ltd
• Bharat Serums and Vaccines
• Biocon Ltd.
• Reddy’s Laboratories
• Panacea Biotec Ltd.
• Reliance Industries Ltd
• Wipro GE Healthcare Ltd.