Program Objectives:
Students with a B.E. degree in Food Quality and Safety will lay a solid foundation in basic knowledge of a wide range, and acquire a highly creative enterprise and an international vision. They will also fit in with the needs of economy, society, and science and technology.
Features:
Program of Food Quality and Safety will provide the opportunities for students to obtain the following working abilities including testing, monitoring, evaluation, alerting, quality control, and food quality certification, and the ability of establishing the food quality and safety standards and regulations.
Courses:
Inorganic chemistry; Organic chemistry; Analytical chemistry, Biochemistry; Microbiology; Principles of Food Engineering; Instrumental Analysis; Food Chemistry; Food Technology; Food and Nutrition; Food Processing Machinery And Equipment; Food Safety; Food Hygiene; Food Toxicology; Food Quality Management; Food Standards And Regulations; Animal And Plant Quarantine Inspection; Food Quality Certification; Food Quality Control.
Postgraduate opportunities:
The program gets its support from the professors and research fellows of the First-level Discipline Doctoral Degree Program in Food Science and Engineering of the School. It has five Doctoral programs and Master programs of Food Science, Agricultural Products Processing & Storage, Aquatic Products Processing & Storage, Food Oils and Vegetable Protein Engineering, and Food Nutrition & Safety. The Post-doctoral positions of Food Science are also provided. It also has the Subsidiary of China’s Agricultural Products Processing Equipment R & D Center, Jiangsu Research Center of Bio-processing and Separation of Agricultural Products, Jiangsu Province Agricultural Products Physical Processing Key Laboratory. Now our program has a faculty team of 13 Ph.D. supervisors and 24 Master supervisors, and more than 200 graduate students including Ph.D. and Master Candidates.
Career Opportunities:
Our graduates are employed by food companies, research institutions, colleges and universities, and public institutions of commodity inspection, sanitary & anti-epidemic control centre, and customs quarantine, at positions of management, research & development, quality control, marketing or teaching.