Course variations

Course summary

The food industry is the largest industrial sector of the U.S. economy. Food engineers conceive, design, and operate food processes, equipment, and plants for efficient food production with minimal impact on the environment. Students specializing in food engineering learn to apply engineering principles and concepts to handling, storing, processing, packaging, and distributing food and related products. In addition to engineering principles, the food engineering specialization is intended to provide an understanding of the chemical, biochemical, microbiological, and physical characteristics of foods. In the junior and senior years, students take courses that focus on the integration of biological and food science with engineering. Concepts of food refrigeration, freezing, thermal processing, drying, and other food operations are studied

Program modules

Genes and Gene Expression, Bioenergetics and Metabolism, Principles of Environmental Science, Principles of Environmental Science, Principles of Environmental Toxicology, etc.

Entry requirement for international students

As an undergraduate, a student may apply for admission as a freshman or a transfer. To be considered for admission as a freshman, international students must have completed secondary school with a superior average in academic subjects and have earned a certificate of completion which enables the student to be admitted to a university in the home country. Students who have attended school under the British system must present 5 GCSE/Ordinary level examinations and at least 2 Advanced level examinations with superior grades. International applicants whose native language is other than English will be required to demonstrate their English proficiency. This is most often accomplished by achieving a minimum score of 550 (paper-based) or 213 (computer-based) on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and On the TOEFL iBT minimum score of 80. Freshman applicants who graduated from high school in spring 2005 or earlier are required to have taken the SAT I: Reasoning Test (or ACT) and three SAT II: Subject Tests prior to high school graduation and a score of 7 on the IELTS.

Qualification

Bachelor degree

Awarding body

University Of California Davis

Department name

College of Engineering, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering