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FPEN 710: Seminar I Research Proposal

All students must formally defend their research proposal to ensure that the proposed work is relevant, meaningful, viable and capable of being completed within the time frame and resource constraints. The student will prepare a document to the satisfaction...

FPEN 708: Engineering and Design in Biotechnology

The course will cover engineering applications in biotechnology for food and allied processing.  The course will review food fermentation with particular reference to liquid-state and solid-state fermentations and the design of equipment to effect these...

FPEN 707: Food Process and Product Design, Development and Evaluation

This course will highlight recent advances in food process design using modern technologies and how these can be applied to processing of Ghanaian foods. Topics to be covered will include design of equipment for upgrading and improving traditional food...

FPEN 706: Advanced Statistical Quality Control

This course will explore the concepts and practical application of advanced statistical techniques used in quality control. Topics include design and implementation of quality systems, quality trilogy, quality management tools (5 whys, root cause analysis,...

FPEN 705: Transport Phenomena

This course aims to give advanced knowledge in transport phenomena covering momentum transport (viscous flow), energy transport (heat conduction, convection and radiation) and mass transport (diffusion) in continua in food systems. Topics will include kinetic...

FPEN 704: Engineering and Microstructural Properties of Foods

The course highlights the interrelationships between structural components of food ingredients and the expressed physicochemical, sensory and textural attributes of foods. Topics will include thermodynamics and vapour-liquid equilibria; glass transitions in...

FPEN 703: Modeling in Food Process Engineering

This course provides students with the opportunity to use mathematical models to predict the effect of different systems and process parameters on the outcome of varied food processing techniques.  Topics covered include applied techniques in regression...

FPEN 702: Food Storage and Packaging Systems

The food industry depends on several packaging systems to store and deliver safe foods to the consumer. The course will introduce students to the engineering and design of food packages based on metals, glass, plastic and rigid plastic containers, retortable...

FPEN 701: Advances in Food Commodity Processing

The course will introduce students to current knowledge and engineering applications in food handling, processing and marketing. The foods will be considered under five thematic areas to cover a) horticultural products, b) cereals and legumes, c) beverages,...

FPEN 700: Research/Thesis

The doctoral candidate will work under the supervision of a faculty member during which he/she is expected to conduct research on an original research project. Such work will either be added information to an existing work already published by other...

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