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Academic Excellence & Engineering Disciplines
The Department of Food Process Engineering offers comprehensive engineering education designed to solve critical agro-processing, food safety, post-harvest preservation, and packaging challenges across Africa and globally.
Our rigorous curricula integrate core engineering fundamentals — including thermodynamics, transport phenomena, chemical kinetics, and process control — with cutting-edge food biotechnology, quality assurance protocols, and commercial pilot plant operations.
Degree Pathways Offered
The Department awards four accredited degrees: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Master of Science (M.Sc.), Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.), and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Food Process Engineering.
Undergraduate Degree • 4 Years Full-Time
B.Sc. Food Process Engineering
A comprehensive eight-semester engineering curriculum accredited by the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) and the Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhIE). Designed to produce world-class plant managers, process development engineers, and technical leaders for the food and bio-processing industry.
Students complete 140+ cumulative credit hours across 61 accredited courses structured progressively from Level 100 foundational sciences to Level 400 advanced plant design. Training combines classroom theory with hands-on unit operation laboratories and pilot plant design studios.
Every undergraduate undertakes mandatory supervised industrial attachments in commercial beverage, grain, dairy, or agro-processing factories. In the final year, students execute an independent capstone engineering project, designing real-world manufacturing solutions and defending working pilot prototypes.
Key Curricular Benchmarks
140+ Cumulative Credit Hours • 61 Accredited Semester Courses • Mandatory Industrial Attachment • Commercial Pilot Capstone Prototyping
Postgraduate Research • M.Sc. • M.Phil. • Ph.D.
Graduate Research Programmes
Advanced graduate scholarship tailored to both practicing industry executives and prospective academic researchers, offering specialized postgraduate study in bioprocess technology, food safety engineering, and sustainable agro-food commercialization.
The 1-year Master of Science (M.Sc.) is an intensive professional degree combining advanced engineering coursework with an applied industrial capstone investigation. The 2-year Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) blends postgraduate courses in the first year with a full second year dedicated to original laboratory and pilot-scale dissertation research.
The terminal Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) spans 3 to 4 years of doctoral research, requiring original scientific breakthroughs, peer-reviewed international publications, and defense of a doctoral dissertation before an academic board of examiners.
Research Specialisations
Bioprocess Engineering • Thermal & Non-Thermal Preservation • Food Rheology • Packaging Material Characterization • Industrial Pilot Scale-up
Practical Training
State-of-the-Art Engineering Labs
Students gain direct technical experience in analytical testing, continuous pasteurization, pilot bottling, and food dehydration.
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