Answer:
In our country, the pharmaceutical industry can be considered as a "true" chemical industry which has become reputable & succeeded in selling medicines to Europe as well as covering many local market demands.
While teaching industrial chemistry, I explain that most of the pharmaceutical industries "worldwide" are of the batch type so as our industries here. Students are required to understand, through examples, the characteristics of an industrial batch plant together with what items of equipment it will have & how these tools are operated.
A typical chemical industry must have a section for R&D "research & development" and our local pharmaceutical industries do have that from information I gathered from our graduates who work there. Therefore, students are required to know examples of the duties of the R&D section in an industry and the type of "applied" research that is carried out there.
Students of the industrial chemistry course ought to know the chemical names, the structural formulas, and the function of the most famous drugs such as Aspirin, Panadol, paracetamol , penicillin, amoxicillin…etc.
Even though it is an introductory course, students do not appreciate its value until they graduate & become fortunate enough to be employed in a chemical industry "pharmaceutical or other industries such as paints, plastics, soaps, detergents…etc.".
