Food Engineering Department

Food Engineering is a multidisciplinary engineering discipline in which all processes (procurement, R&D, production, quality control, packaging, storage and logistics) are designed, monitored and managed in a complete and standardized manner in order to provide quality and safe food products to consumers. Yeditepe University Food Engineering Department accepts students with 100% and 50% scholarships.

Yeditepe Food - Offers Innovative Education Model with its Unique Curriculum

Yeditepe University, Department of Food Engineering offers a four-year program. The language of instruction is English.

Authentic Curriculum

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Food Business Certificate Program

Yeditepe University Food Engineering Department Brochure

Vision

The vision of Yeditepe University Department of Food Engineering is to be a nationally and internationally recognized department that contributes to science, technology, industry and society with its education, training and research activities within the scope of sustainable development goals, can produce innovative products and technological solutions by evaluating the food system from all aspects, can guide food policies, and is recognized in national and international platforms.

Mission

The mission of the Department of Food Engineering at Yeditepe University is to train food engineers who know the food system, can apply the technologies necessary for the healthy and safe production, processing and preservation of food in the light of the scientific education they receive, follow and contribute to developments in science and technology with a focus on sustainability and innovation, and have professional and ethical responsibility.

Program Educational Objectives

Our educational objectives of Yeditepe University Food Engineering undergraduate program;

• Contributes to the sustainability of the food system by working as an engineer, manager, marketer or entrepreneur in different areas of the food system (food production, design, planning, quality control and safety, procurement, logistics, R&D, etc.) in national/international companies and public sector,
• Conducting scientific studies in master's and doctoral programs at universities in Turkey and abroad, R&D centers or units,

to train engineers.

Yeditepe University Department of Food Engineering strives to provide students with expertise not only in the field of engineering, but also in areas such as food safety, health and nutrition, gastronomy and culinary arts, entrepreneurship, and business with a transdisciplinary approach. In this context, concentration programs are created in different fields. These concentration programs include the Department of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts and the Department of Business Administration. The advanced laboratory infrastructure of the world's best universities is available at Yeditepe University Department of Food Engineering. When selecting faculty members in the Department of Food Engineering, care is taken to ensure that their postgraduate education is from a prestigious school abroad. Relations with the food industry are not only within the scope of projects. The sector, which is one of the department's areas of interest, takes place in one-to-one lessons. Particularly in design courses, in the applied areas, a worker from the sector comes every week. Apart from this, factory visits by students are also very common in the department. Within the scope of the courses, visits are made to the leading companies in the food industry and students are provided to see the production facilities. In Yeditepe University Food Engineering, it is aimed to provide students with a new profession that includes different fields such as innovation, digitalization and sustainability in addition to the classical food engineering education from the past with a more interdisciplinary approach. When we look at the "base score and ranking list" of the Department of Food Engineering, Yeditepe University's remarkable position is the main reason why it is among the top choices of students.

Double Major and Minor Opportunities

Business Administration, Gastronomy and Industrial Design Departments and Concentration Programs

Some of the duties of Food Engineers who have successfully completed the Department of Food Engineering at Yeditepe University and have a bachelor's degree are as follows:

• To inspect the additives used in food,
• Developing ideas for new products to be produced,
• Evaluating and deciding on the scope of projects,
• Evaluating the formulations of food products and changing them if necessary,
• Testing food samples,
• To evaluate the equipment and systems used during production,
• To review the techniques in food processing, packaging and preservation process,
• Production and performance evaluation.

Food engineers can find jobs in a wide variety of places including factories, restaurants, catering companies, offices and laboratories, work in the units of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, or continue their professional careers as lecturers by completing a master's degree. They can also be hired as auditors in international certification bodies.

What Do Yeditepe Food Engineering Graduates Do?

Success Stories of Our Graduates

Yeditepe University Department of Food Engineering Success Rankings in 2022

You can review this page for the tuition fees of Yeditepe University Faculty of Engineering, Department of Food Engineering for the 2024 - 2025 academic year.

Yeditepe University offers different scholarship opportunities to students. Students can get detailed information about scholarship opportunities by reviewing the Food Engineering Scholarship Opportunities page. You can reach the relevant page here, you can review the departments and scholarship opportunities.

The main aim of the Bologna Process is to bring students and lecturers closer in the circle of current developments. The student is at the heart of the process. In this context, Yeditepe University Department of Food Engineering aims to eliminate the deviations from the standard between the education programs of the elite universities of the European Union. In this way, students continue their educational activities in a more informed and equipped manner.

Click here to access the Bologna Information Package for the Undergraduate Program (2017).

Erasmus Department Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Lecturer Prof. Dr. Özge Taştan

• Students with a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 2.20 and above, who have completed at least one academic semester at Yeditepe University and will continue at Yeditepe University for at least one more semester in order to graduate upon their return, may apply to continue their education abroad for one semester through Erasmus or exchange programs.

• Erasmus agreements are made between departments. Exchange agreements are university-wide and are limited to quotas announced by the international office. You can get information about the schools we have agreements with from the department Erasmus/Exchange coordinator. Application dates for each semester are announced by the International Office and announced in our department. Students who will apply must have an e-mail address with Yeditepe extension. Applications are made online. You need to submit the printout of the form you created in the system to the Erasmus/Exchange Coordinator of your department together with 1 photo, a copy of your ID and your transcript.

• Shortly after your application, you will be required to take a language test. The date of the exam is announced by the International Office. Students who score at least 60 points in the language exam will take an oral exam on a date determined by the department Erasmus/Exchange coordinator. Your status is determined according to your success score and the quota for the school you want to attend. Following this, you can find all the forms you need to fill out and the procedures you need to do on the international office's page.

• The financial status of the student who goes abroad for a semester with any exchange program continues at the University. Erasmus students are also provided with some financial support under the name of grant. The amount of this is announced by the International Office. Students can waive financial support if they wish.

• Below are the universities with which our department has an agreement within the scope of ERASMUS as of 2020-2021. Negotiations for new agreements are ongoing. New agreements can also be made with the requests and initiatives of students.

Universities with which we have agreements at undergraduate level :

• Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

• Aarhus University Science & Technology, Aarhus, Denmark

• Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland

• Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece

• University of Parma, Department of Food and Drug, Food Processing Section, Italy

• University of Salerno, Italy

• University of West Attica, Greece

Outgoing Students :

• How Do I Apply?
• Erasmus+ - Non Erasmus Agreements
• Required Forms
• Erasmus+ Grants

Incoming Students :

• How Do I Apply?
• Required Forms

Erasmus Stories from our Alumni

Internship Department Coordinator: Prof. Dr. F. Yeşim Ekinci

Within the scope of FDE 400, it is aimed to prepare students for working life before graduation, to gain knowledge about engineering applications; to observe the connection between theoretical knowledge and applications in the sector and to gain experience.

Learning outcomes of the course;

• Gain practical experience that gives you the chance to observe the working environment of a food engineer in practice and how these environments are organized and function

• Practical application of the knowledge learned in the courses

• Gaining the ability to work as a team

• Gaining the ability to report and present the experience gained

The application and evaluation are made within the scope of "COMPULSORY INTERNSHIP APPLICATION PRINCIPLES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF FOOD ENGINEERING" .