Since 2019, the Department of Chemical Technology and Ecology of the Karaganda Industrial University has been implementing new educational programs “Technology of pharmaceutical production” and “Processing of minerals”.

In order to improve the quality of teaching professionally oriented disciplines, the department created new and re-equipped existing laboratories: «Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Chemistry» and «Laboratory of Processes and Apparatus».

In the new laboratory, students enrolled in the educational program «Technology of pharmaceutical production» have the opportunity to perform laboratory work in the discipline «Pharmaceutical Chemistry».  The laboratory has a stand with various drugs, which students use when testing them for authenticity, identifying the composition and determining the quantitative content of the active substances of these drugs.  For this, the laboratory has all the necessary instruments, reagents and chemical glassware.  In this laboratory, it is planned to carry out research work with the involvement of especially interested students.  The university leadership continues to equip this laboratory, and we are confident that the pharmaceutical chemistry laboratory will become a unique laboratory for the acquisition of professional skills and will allow graduates of the educational program to be competitive in the pharmaceutical technology industry.

The existing laboratory of processes and devices has been re-equipped in order to expand its functionality.  As a result, this laboratory can acquire certain professional skills for students enrolled in the educational program «Mineral Processing».  A flotation machine is installed in this laboratory, which is one of the most important types of equipment for mineral processing.

I would especially like to note that the laboratory of processes and devices is also used in the educational process by students enrolled in the educational programs «Technology of pharmaceutical production» and «Chemical technology of organic substances».  This laboratory is unique in that it is the only laboratory of processes and apparatus in the universities of Central Kazakhstan.  In this regard, students enrolled in the same educational programs of neighboring universities dream of doing an internship and acquiring practical skills in this laboratory.