FDSC4075K Food Process Technology IISCAU

Academic Year 2024/2025

The aim of this module is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the impacts of food processing on the environment and alternative tools available to contribute to the sustainable processing of foods using green technologies. The module will help the students to critically examine the role of emerging food processing technologies in meeting current and future nutritional demands. It is also intended to provide principles of key emerging food processing technologies, their mechanisms, and their effects on food quality characteristics as well as on the structural and physicochemical properties inherent to each processing approach. In addition, the module will enhance understanding of ways and means of making food processing sustainable through waste recovery.
Specific emerging technologies covered in this module include thermal and non-thermal technologies that are used in food processing, such as pulsed electric fields, ohmic/moderate electric fields, microwave, radio frequency, high pressure, ultrasound, and others. Specific research-based case studies will be used to illustrate the technologies presented in this module.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand and critically assess the impacts of food processing on the environment
• Develop an understanding of the rationale and drivers for emerging technologies in sustainable food processing
• Gain a basic knowledge of the principles and mechanisms of selected thermal and non-thermal emerging technologies applied to food processing operations
• Compare and contrast the effects of different emerging processing technologies on the safety and quality of foods and on the environment.
• Integrate and apply knowledge of key emerging technologies in sustainable food processing
• Develop the ability to identify and propose appropriate technologies for a specific product or process using research skills

Indicative Module Content:

As above

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Specified Learning Activities

16
Autonomous Student Learning

83
Lectures

26
Total

125
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
• Lectures
• Autonomous student learning
• Specified learning activities
 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Quizzes/Short Exercises: MCQs and short answer questions Week 3, Week 6, Week 9, Week 12 Alternative linear conversion grade scale 40% No

40

 No
Exam (In-person): End of Trimester Exam End of trimester
Duration:
2 hr(s)
 Alternative linear conversion grade scale 40% No

60

 No

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

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Name Role
Dr Tesfaye Bedane Lecturer / Co-Lecturer