Master in Food Engineering

Provide highly demanding training in the area of ​​Food Engineering that integrates, complements and develops the skills required by national and foreign companies in the current job market of the Food Engineer.
Develop, deepen and consolidate design and production skills for food industries or food services and development of new products and processes.

a) Holders of a first cycle degree, or legal equivalent, in the areas of Food Engineering , and other engineering or related areas;
b) Holders of a foreign academic degree in one of the areas referred to in a) , or legal equivalent , as conferred following a 1st cycle of studies organized according to the principles of the Bologna Process by a State acceding to this process;
c) Holders of an academic degree, national or foreign, in the areas referred to in a), which can be recognized by the Scientific-Technical Council as meeting the objectives of a first cycle degree;
d) The holders of an academic, scientific or professional curriculum that is recognized as attesting the capacity to carry out this cycle of studies by the Scientific-Technical Council;
Students who have not completed the programme of study leading to the bachelor’s degree may apply conditionally, provided they meet the requirements for the degree by the end of the last years’ evaluation season.

The holder of the Master in Food Engineering can:
1. Work as a Laboratory Technician / Assistant in the private or public sector
2. Apply for a job in the private or government sector
3. Getting a job in Research and Development (R&D)
4. Get a job in Research and registration of patents and intellectual property
5. Apply for a sales job in food companies
6. Be entrepreneurial and create your own job
7. Pursue higher studies (PhD) in the area of ​​food and Life Sciences.

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The Master in Food Engineering will have skills in the field of:
– Techniques of production and processing of animal and vegetable products;
– Information research tools in the field of Food Engineering;
– Computer techniques in association with different fields of knowledge of Food Engineering (for example: computer simulation, the detection of system states and automatic process control, among others);
– Management and entrepreneurship that enhance the start of productive activities in the context of Food Engineering;
– Final applications in areas such as: plant and animal production, food production, obtaining bioproducts from biomass or other resources, the development of bioprocesses and the use and recovery of waste.

Holders of a Master’s degree in Food Engineering will be able to apply for a higher PhD study level.