Food Engineering
Food Engineering is the branch of Engineering that is responsible for food production and includes all stages from harvest to food presentation.
The food engineer begins his work at the harvest of the food and finishes it when the food is consumed. Some of the stages that Food Engineering is involved in are: collection, storage, transport and cleaning, preservation, processing and presentation.
What does a food engineer do?
The Food Engineering degree provides the tools to develop some of these activities:
- Design, organize and manage industrial food establishments.
- Develop and participate in physical, chemical and microbiological transformation processes for food production.
- Plan, implement, control and supervise food preparation, fractionation and packaging processes.
- Research and develop new processes for industrialization, packaging and food preparation.
- Conduct studies on safety in the food industry.
- Perform quality controls.
Where can a food engineer work?
Food engineers can work in dairy, poultry and fish companies.
In fruit, beverage, bread and meat industries.
In storage and transport centers, product research and development, quality control entities, etc. Practically the entire food industry (including animal feed) needs and draws on Food Engineering.
