Biological and food engineering
Food and organic production | Biotechnologies | Sustainable food | Quality, hygiene, safety, environment | Bio-resources and bio-products
The program in Biological and Food Engineering trains multiskilled engineers who work in different sectors of activity: food processing, biotechnology, the environment, cosmetics, personal hygiene products and retail. Using a combination of scientific and technical knowledge, as well as managerial competences, engineers from this program can call upon human, material and financial resources in order to meet the complex and exciting challenges specific to businesses in these different sectors.
The program is designed around the following areas:
– products classified according to their chemical composition and on various properties – physico-chemical, health, nutritional, sensory…
– processes and bio-processes used to obtain these products or to recover and enhance agri-resources and waste
– the tools necessary to control and optimize these processes, as well as the quality of the products,
– essential areas of the Humanities and management which participate in the development strategy of a given company
– practical work experience (placements, projects) which allow the student engineer to assimilate the knowledge imparted and develop, in a team environment, his/her capacities in defining, organizing and realizing tasks.
The personalized path offered in the final year allows the student engineer to adapt the training offered to his/her career plan.
Constant links with industry exist and manifest themselves through work placements, projects, visits to different companies, as well as the participation of industrialists in the program.
Activity sectors
- Food processing
- Design offices
- Chemical / healthcare industry
- Retail
- Research and Development
- Production / Exploitation
- Quality / Security / Environment
- Sales / Brand Director
Links with research units
Associated research unit :
- BioEcoAgro - (Biological engineering applied to agriculture, biotechnology, agri-food and the environment)
- UCCS - (catalysis and solid-state chemistry)