Bachelor of Process and Food Engineering with Honours

Introduction

Food is an essential resource for human life. The need to process and produce food in large quantities requires engineering knowledge to ensure that quality food is produced for human use through safe, efficient, and economical processes. Recognizing this, UPM offers a Bachelor of Process and Food Engineering with Honours that incorporates elements from various related fields to produce a competent process and food engineer capable of:

• Utilizing efficient processes to prepare and preserve agricultural/biological raw materials.

• Processing agricultural/biological materials using appropriate techniques, considering the initial properties of the materials before processing, during processing, and the final product, to ensure maximum production rates and the highest quality.

• Extracting and purifying substances from agricultural/biological sources for use in food, pharmaceuticals, and industrial materials.

These objectives can be achieved through the theory, principles, analysis, and application of engineering practices such as:

• Physical unit operations and process design

• Heat and mass transfer operations and design

• Process simulation and optimization

• Process equipment, control, and automation

• Plant design and engineering.

Students can choose one of four specializations during their final year of study:

1. Bio-material Process Engineering Option: This option emphasizes the application of process engineering principles and concepts in processing the country’s major agricultural commodities and in advancing new bio-based products for use as food and raw materials for manufacturing industries.

2. Food Engineering Option: This option focuses on the application of process engineering principles and concepts in the food processing industry.

3. Processing Machine Design Engineering Option: This option emphasizes courses related to the design of specialized machines for the processing and food industries.

4. Packaging Engineering Option: This option focuses on the engineering aspects of packaging, including packaging machinery and automation, packaging evaluation and testing, and package permeability. It emphasizes designing packaging systems that maintain food quality and extend shelf life, while ensuring safety and efficiency in the packaging process for the food industry.