FOOD ENGINEERING AND WORKING AREAS

Food Engineering is a combination of physical, chemical, and biological sciences; It is a branch of engineering that finds application in the processing, storage, transportation, and marketing of foods. The basic duties of the Food Engineer; to produce food with high nutritional value and safe for health, to develop new processing techniques and methods by making biochemical, technological, and economic evaluations in food processing, to evaluate foodstuffs, to prevent waste of food resources, to protect them in terms of quality and quantity, to benefit from raw materials in a versatile way and thus to increase food diversity. In addition, monitoring the developing food science and food processing techniques and interpreting and organizing this information in accordance with the country's requirements are among the duties of Food Engineers.

Food Engineers can work in various Public Institutions and Private Sector Organizations.

Public Institutions: · Relevant faculties of universities · Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry · Research, Education, Publishing and Control Organizations · Ministry of Health · Public Health Laboratories · State Planning Organization · Turkish Standardization Institute · Municipalities

Private Organizations: Production Engineer, Analyzer, Product Manager, Sales Engineer and Researcher in the Production, Quality Control, Project, Marketing, Consulting, R&D departments of the food industry.

Subjects that Food Engineers are authorized; 1. To work as a technical staff or responsible manager in terms of health, technology and quality in food control and laboratory services of workplaces at all stages from production to final consumption, and to prepare and approve reports, 2. To carry out application and control procedures on technological research, surveys, planning, projecting, marketing, import and export and similar issues for manufacturing workplaces and to open consultancy offices for this purpose, 3.To act as an expert witness and expertise, 4. To work as a technical staff or manager in organizations that conduct basic and applied research to obtain information and develop methods and technology, 5. To establish and operate a laboratory for physical, chemical and microbiological control and analysis for purposes such as research and development, quality control, compliance with national and international legislation, 6. To control compliance with national and international legislation in import and export transactions, 7. Establishment of schools, training centers, knowledge and skills training courses for the training of workers, masters and assistant technical staff in organizations and planning of education and training in institutions responsible for application methods, determination and execution of training programs and methods, and knowledge in the field of food industry conveying, teaching and applying technology and technology to various production units

FACILITIES

As can be seen, this section, which has a wide field of study and powers, is also interesting. For this reason, it is a candidate to be today's profession. We hope you can find what you want about Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University Food Engineering Department on our site. The Department of Food Engineering at our university was opened in the 2000-2001 academic year and continues its education in the new building at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture. The language of instruction is Turkish, and the duration of instruction is 8 semesters (4 years). Students who successfully complete the four-year education program are awarded a bachelor's degree and receive the title of Food Engineer. There are six laboratories in our department (Instrumental, Microbiology, Packaging, Application, Research, Sensory Analysis) and these laboratories are used both for the education of students and for research. Since our department is just being established, our first goal is to develop educational laboratories for our students. Our next work will be the establishment of a pilot business for the food industry branches.