Advanced training in food science and technology including practical course in food processing on PILOT scale
Abstract
The Master study “food technology” teaches a wide range of subjects reaching from chemistry, biology, mathematics to biochemistry, biotechnology and food technology. Beside theoretical lectures that teach the basic knowledge and give the scientific background of the present state of the art practical courses are of great importance. Such practical courses allow the students to see, learn and implement theory into practical experience and to combine several (theoretical) scientific fields (chemistry, biology, food engeneering, etc.). Joined-up thinking is greatly encouraged. During the Master courses “Food technology” numerous practical courses are included in the curricula of the both applying universities, such as e.g. analytical courses, biotechnological courses or food chemistry. For the proposed project an advanced training in the field of food science and technology, that includes a practical course in food processing on pilot scale is planned, in order to offer interested students an in-depth and profound education in the food science and technology. In difference to laboratory scale food processing experiments on pilot scale offer to learn about food unit processes and operations much more realistic and professional and are thus much closer to industrial food production, which will be the future working field of the Food Science and Technolgy master students. Food processing courses on pilot scale require a well equipped pilot plant but only very few universities world-wide own such a pilot plant. The Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria, is one of these universities that possess a well equipped pilot plant, where most food units operations and processes can be carried out on pilot scale. The aim of this project proposal is therefore to carry out a one week practical food processing course for Food Technology Master Students of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Applied Biotechnology and Food Science.
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Project staff
Regine Schönlechner
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Regine Schönlechner
regine.schoenlechner@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-75240
Project Leader
01.01.2012 - 31.03.2012
Susanne Siebenhandl-Ehn
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Susanne Siebenhandl-Ehn
Project Staff
01.01.2012 - 31.03.2012
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University of Technology and Economics Budapest
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