BEng (Honours) Food Engineering

Course description
What is food engineering?
Food engineering blends engineering disciplines with an understanding of food and food science. It develops solutions to food design, manufacture and supply challenges whilst overcoming the unique issues that underpin safe food production. Food engineering covers a number of areas including • mechanical engineering • process control and efficiency • automation, robotics and manufacturing systems • food science and food safety • energy efficiency.
Food engineers help to deliver innovative and high quality products to customers throughout the world. They apply the mechanical engineering study of structures, systems performance, and how fluids behave, to safely and efficiently produce food and drink. Food engineers can specialise in design, development, research, maintenance and operations such as processing, packaging, storage and transportation.
About this course
Major food and drink manufacturers have helped design this unique course to ensure it gives you the skills and knowledge needed for a successful career in the UK’s largest manufacturing sector, food and drink. By replicating real-life scenarios, you learn to create new systems and processes to deliver safe, competitive and innovative food and drink products.
The course applies engineering to the development, control and manufacture of food and drink products. We introduce you to engineering principles and how these are applied to food and drink manufacture. You design, implement and analyse sophisticated engineering process and control systems for manufacturing food in the most energy efficient, economical and environmentally friendly way.
Industry experience
During the course you are guaranteed 38 weeks of integrated, competitively paid industrial placement opportunities provided by the food and drink industry. This ensures you gain extensive workplace experience, and develop your technical and professional knowledge of equipment and...