Food Engineering

Ethical professionals with solid theoretical and practical knowledge in the area of ​​food that allows them to perform successfully in the workplace in a participatory manner through entrepreneurship and innovation in the development of the food industry.

Ethical professionals with solid theoretical and practical knowledge in the area of ​​food that allows them to perform successfully in the workplace in a participatory manner through entrepreneurship and innovation in the development of the food industry.

Basic data


Degree

Food Engineer

Duration

Food Engineering

Schedule

Morning and evening

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Professional Profile


Ethical professionals with solid theoretical and practical knowledge in the area of ​​food that allows them to perform successfully in the workplace in a participatory manner through entrepreneurship and innovation in the development of the food industry.

Occupational field


The Food Engineer can work in the following areas:

Head or Production Manager: Supervises all the transformation of the raw material and packaging material into the finished product; organizes production, trains and supervises each worker in charge of a production process, ensures the quality of all manufactured products, establishes safety controls and determines the operating parameters of equipment and processes that guarantee production and maintain employee safety .

Head or Quality Manager: Responsible for all Quality and Food Safety activities including strategic and tactical planning in alignment with business platform plans.

Laboratorian or Analyst of quality and microbiology: Prepare solutions, reagents and supplies necessary to carry out the determinations. Carry out physicochemical and/or microbiological analysis of the samples to determine their aptitude and regulatory nature.

Public servant in the regulatory entities: acts as an active member in the control of food as raw material, finished product or imported products. He knows the current national regulations very well and applies them. Business consultant: advice on good manufacturing practices, risk analysis, quality, entrepreneurship, etc.

Researcher Training: Teacher - researcher in the lines of research related to food.

Study Plan


Level One
Subject
Prerequisite
  • MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS I
    Syllable

    Parallel: A

    Chalco Orellana Andre Mateo

  • GENERAL BIOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY
    Syllable

    Parallel: A

    Caroca Caceres Rodrigo Sebastian

  • GEOMETRY AND TRIGONOMETRY
    Syllable

    Parallel: A

    Suarez Briones Diego Sebastian

  • INTRODUCTION TO FOOD ENGINEERING
    Syllable

    Parallel: A

    Briones García Miriam Margoth

  • ACADEMIC READING AND WRITING I
  • GENERAL CHEMISTRY
    Syllable

    Parallel: A

    Rojas Villa Cristian Xavier

Level One
Subject
Prerequisite
  • LINEAR ALGEBRA
    MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS I
    Syllable

    Parallel: A

    Mendoza Vazquez Ivan Andres

  • MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS II
    MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS I
    Syllable

    Parallel: A

    Alvarez Coello Gustavo Andres

  • PHYSICS I
    Syllable

    Parallel: A

    Andrade Ambrosi Felipe Washinton

  • ACADEMIC READING AND WRITING II
    ACADEMIC READING AND WRITING I
  • FOOD MICROBIOLOGY
    GENERAL BIOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY
    Syllable

    Parallel: A

    Rosales Medina María Fernanda

  • ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
    GENERAL CHEMISTRY
    Syllable

    Parallel: A

    Moon Barrier Geovanny Patricio

Level One
Subject
Prerequisite
  • MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS III
    MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS II
    Syllable

    Parallel: A

    Mendoza Vazquez Ivan Andres

  • ANTHROPOLOGY
  • STATISTICS
    MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS I
    Syllable

    Parallel: A

    Rojas Villa Cristian Xavier

  • PHYSICS II
    PHYSICS I
    Syllable

    Parallel: A

    Hunt Almache Fabian Eduardo

  • UNIT OPERATIONS I
    MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS II
    Syllable

    Parallel: A

    Peña Gonzalez Maria Alicia

  • ANALYTICAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CHEMISTRY
    GENERAL CHEMISTRY
    Syllable

    Parallel: A

    Suarez Star Diego Patricio

Level One
Subject
Prerequisite
  • MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS IV
    MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS III
  • BIOCHEMISTRY OF FOOD
    ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
  • STATISTICS II AND EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
    STATISTICS
  • ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
  • PROGRAMMING FUNDAMENTALS
  • UNIT OPERATIONS II
    UNIT OPERATIONS I
Level One
Subject
Prerequisite
  • FOOD ANALYSIS
    ANALYTICAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CHEMISTRY
  • FOOD PHYSICOCHEMISTRY
    PHYSICS II
  • FOOD SAFETY AND SAFETY
    FOOD MICROBIOLOGY
  • UNIT OPERATIONS III
    UNIT OPERATIONS II
  • LINKING PRACTICES
    FOOD ANALYSIS

    UNIT OPERATIONS II
  • FOOD TOXICOLOGY
    FOOD MICROBIOLOGY
Level One
Subject
Prerequisite
  • SENSORY ANALYSIS
    FOOD PHYSICOCHEMISTRY
  • FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY
    GENERAL BIOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY
  • OPERATIONS APPLIED TO THE FOOD INDUSTRY
    UNIT OPERATIONS III
  • PRE PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES
    FOOD ANALYSIS

    LINKING PRACTICES
  • DAIRY TECHNOLOGY
    BIOCHEMISTRY OF FOOD
Level One
Subject
Prerequisite
  • DESIGN OF THE GRADUATION PROJECT
  • MANAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
  • NUTRITION AND FUNCTIONAL FOODS
    BIOCHEMISTRY OF FOOD
  • MEAT TECHNOLOGY
    UNIT OPERATIONS III
  • VEGETABLE TECHNOLOGY
    OPERATIONS APPLIED TO THE FOOD INDUSTRY
Level One
Subject
Prerequisite
  • ADVANCES IN FOOD ENGINEERING
    DESIGN OF THE GRADUATION PROJECT
  • RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PRODUCTS
    SENSORY ANALYSIS
  • PLANT OPTIMIZATION AND DESIGN
    FOOD SAFETY AND SAFETY
  • GRADUATION WORKSHOP
  • CEREAL AND OLEAGINOUS TECHNOLOGY
    BIOCHEMISTRY OF FOOD

Coordination


Maria Alicia Peña González

c.ingalimentos@uazuay.edu.ec