Food Technology and Human Nutrition is a three-semester full-time Master's programme at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, and its English-taught strand is Food Engineering. It is for graduates who want to work on how food is designed, produced and controlled in the food industry.
The first semester covers the physical and technological side of food, with food physics and rheology, technological equipment in food processing and innovative food technology and techniques. You also work on food product development and on food quality and safety management. Enzymology and bioinformatics, methodology of experimental studies, food marketing and production economics, and trends in human nutrition and nutritional prophylaxis complete the semester.
The second semester turns towards processing and energy. You take biotechnological and thermochemical conversion processes together with their laboratories, as well as modelling and simulation, multiphase flows, process control and water processing. Electives include solar technologies and a scientific project.
Food Engineering is one of four ranges offered on the full-time Master's course, next to food technology, food product management and human nutrition, and it is the one taught in English.
The final semester is built around your thesis and work experience:
A course on English terminology in food engineering builds the vocabulary of the field. The language block lets you choose between English and German, which is useful because one of the electives is about applying for jobs in Germany. Intercultural competences are part of the curriculum as well.
Graduates are qualified for managerial positions in all branches of the food industry, in particular in food plants and in companies working for them.
The Master's degree opens several routes:
Based on the programme pages at uwm.edu.pl.
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