Where Will You Get a Job as a Food Engineer?
Food Engineers are employed by companies that need engineers with a knowledge
of food materials, process control, microbiology, and systems design. The following
are names of some of the companies that have recently hired Food Engineers:
Hershey Foods - confection and food processing
Kellogg - food processing
Cargill - feed processing, milling
Bristol-Myers- Squibb - pharmaceutical manufacturing
Heinz - food processing
What are Your Chances of Getting a Good Job?
Food Engineering graduates are in high demand. Placement of students pursuing
Food Engineering into career positions is close to 100 percent. The demand
for our students exceeds the number graduating. Graduates are in demand regionally,
nationally, and internationally.
What Courses Will You Take to become a Food Engineer?
Students pursuing Food Engineering take courses that provide a solid engineering
foundation, with applications to food manufacturing systems. We guarantee hands-on
laboratory experiences in just about every major course!
Specific major course topics include:
• environmental influences on biological systems
• modeling of biological and physical systems
• transport phenomena in biosystems
• properties of biological materials
• engineering elements of biochemistry and microbiology
• food engineering
• microbiological engineering
• instrumentation and measurement
• systems optimization
What Other Courses Will You Take at Penn State?
A student pursuing Food Engineering will take courses in the basic sciences, engineering sciences, communications, and liberal arts.
Specific course topics include:
• calculus
• physics
• chemistry
• biomolecular biology
• organic chemistry
• engineering mechanics: static forces, dynamic forces, strength of materials
• fluid mechanics
• thermodynamics
• food science: food microbiology, food chemistry, unit operations
• statistics
• economics
• arts, humanities, and social sciences
• speech communications
• English
• courses of the student's choosing in engineering science and design,
biological sciences, and other technical electives.
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