Course details

Summary

Enhance your employability in the competitive global market with a qualification that provides advanced technical foundations and industrial perspectives in your chosen field.

Programme overview

Equip yourself with the technical, engineering, food, economic, regulatory and business knowledge required for innovation in the food process engineering field.

Programme outline

Using engineering principles, food process engineers develop, analyse and optimise operations, assisting in new product development and helping to improve food processing, nutrition composition, preservation and packaging.

With technical, regulatory, ethical and business knowledge, graduates of the Master of Engineering Studies in Food Process Engineering are well equipped to pursue careers in the food industry, where their work can help to improve profit margins and increase market share.

Graduates can pursue careers not only in the food industry, but in universities and regulatory agencies. The completion of the 'Research masters' programme can also lead to further studies for a PhD.

Programme structure

The Food Process Engineering specialisation is offered as either a research masters (two courses plus a research portfolio), or a taught masters (four courses plus a research project).

Research Masters

90 points: CHEMMAT 776 or 777.

30 points from CHEMMAT 771-773.

Taught Masters

60 points: CHEMMAT 774 or 775.

30 points from CHEMMAT 771, 772, 773.

30 points from BIOSCI 741, CHEMMAT 756, 757, 771-773, FOODSCI 703, 706-709, or other approved courses.

Further study options

• Master of Engineering
• Doctor of Philosophy

Other Master of Engineering Studies subjects:

Chemical and Materials Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering, Construction Management, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Engineering Science, Environmental Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Light Metals Reduction Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Medical Devices and Technologies, Plastics, Software Engineering, Transportation Engineering.

Entry criteria

If you interested in a career in the food industry, in one of the largest and most stable industries in the world, then the Master of Engineering Studies in Food Process Engineering could be for you.

This programme is for graduates in the fields of engineering, processing, food technology, or food science.

English language requirements:
IELTS 6.5; TOEFL (iBT) 90; TOEFL (paper-based) 575; CAE or CPE 176; PTE 58; MELAB 85.