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MEng Food Engineering

Postgraduate

In Sheffield ()

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

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.
What you study
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
You have the opportunity to go on three placements for a combined total of 54 weeks industry experience. The placements are competitively paid and an integrated and guaranteed part of the course. They ensure you gain extensive and varied workplace experience, as well as developing your...

About this course

Study a unique course with guaranteed opportunities for paid placements in the food and drink industry.

Entry requirements
2017 entry requirements
Normally five GCSEs at grade C or grade 4 or above including English language and maths, plus
• 128 UCAS points including at least 64 points from two A levels or equivalent BTEC National qualifications (to include mathematics) and (to include Physical Science or an appropriate Science subject) We accept AS levels. We do not accept general studies.
Or
• 112 UCAS points from three A levels or equivalent BTEC National qualifications (to include mathematics) and (to include Physical Science or an appropriate science subject) We do not...

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Subjects

  • Quality
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Design
  • Mechanics
  • Packaging
  • Project
  • Systems
  • Industry
  • Engineering
  • Process Control
  • Quality Training
  • Food Science

Course programme

Course structure

Four years full-time

Typical modules may include

Year one modules

• principles of solid mechanics and dynamics • principles of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics • mechanical engineering design and CAD • applied engineering mathematics • electro-mechanical engineering practice • materials and manufacturing engineering • three month industry placement

Year two modules

• applied thermodynamic and fluid mechanics • maths and control • mechatronics • professional practice • packaging machinery design and mechanics • food composition, processing and safety • three month placement

Year three modules

• project and project management (food engineering) • automation and robotics for the food industry • process dynamics and control • total quality management • food processing engineering • six month placement

Year four modules

• MEng group project • sustainability, energy and environmental management • lean operations and six sigma • contemporary issues in food operation • finance and marketing • rheology and multi-phase flow • plus one option module

MEng Food Engineering

Price on request