Food Technology and Safety
Cycle
Segundo ciclo
Degree
Mestre
Coordinator
Benilde Simões Mendes
Opening date
10 September
Vacancies
35 vagas
Fees
1065,72 Euros
Schedule
"Compressed" schedule - a day and a half per week (thursday afternoon, friday full day and saturday morning) and After Working Hours schedule.
Education objectives
Food production has become, in many circumstances, an act so industrialized as possible, worrying those responsible with the more quantitative aspects of the process than with product quality. The complexity of food chains is increasing, resulting in many interactions which may be the basis of risks to consumers, whose control will thus become more difficult. Food Security so requires an integrated and responsible approach, which stretches from production to consumers in a manner consistent, effective and dynamic.
Skills:
- To assess the quality of the food value, either raw or processed products, so as to contribute thereby to ensure, together with other technicians, security of food consumption and health;
- To intervene in the productive processes of the food industries, seeking to optimize the process itself and minimize the environmental impacts arising from it;
- Adequate training to the design of new products, food and others, and the reformulation of current products;
- To intervene in the processes of standardization and certification of products and systems for production and processing of products and raw food;
- Management of emissions, effluents and wastes and other disorders arising in processes of production, processing and distribution in food industries.
Careers
Level of production, quality control and food security in agro-food industries and to develop new products or improve existing ones. Tasks of research and development and consulting services in Technology and / or Food Safety.
Degree pre-requisites
Duration : 2 years
Credits : 120 ECTS
Mandatory scientifc areas
| Area | Credits (ECTS) |
| Food Technology | 33 |
| Food Safety | 15 |
| Chemistry | 12 |
| Food Quality | 6 |
| Chemical Engineering | 3 |
| Transferable Skills | 3 |
| TecAl/SegAl/Q/Qual.Al/EngQ | 42 |
| Any other area | 6 |
Access to other courses
Access to third cycles (PhD Programs).
Evaluation rules
The evaluation is done according the Regulamento de Avaliação de Conhecimentos da FCT (Despacho 34/2012).
The curricular units (UC) predicted a format of continous assessment, wich will include a minimum of three evaluation times, distributed along the semesters and that will be concluded till the end of teaching classrooms. The evaluation of UCs of the Insert Period is regulated by a separated decision of the Executive Council of FCT.
1.º Semester
Code
Name
ECTS
10750
Análise de Alimentos
6.0
10753
Fundamentos de Engenharia Alimentar
3.0
10751
Indicadores Biológicos na Qualidade Agro-Industrial
6.0
7895
Legislação e Defesa do Consumidor
3.0
10752
Nutrição
6.0
10749
Química e Bioquímica dos Alimentos
6.0
2.º Semester
Code
Name
ECTS
10757
Acondicionamento e Embalagem de Alimentos
3.0
10755
Conservação de Alimentos
6.0
11128
Empreendedorismo
3.0
10756
Qualidade Alimentar I
6.0
10754
Toxicologia Alimentar
6.0
2.º Semester - Unidade Curricular de Bloco Livre
Code
Name
ECTS
Options
11066
Opção(ões) Livre(s)
6.0
2.º Year
Code
Name
ECTS
8910
Dissertação em Tecnologia e Segurança Alimentar
42.0
3.º Semester
Code
Name
ECTS
10760
Indústrias Alimentares
6.0
10761
Qualidade Alimentar II
6.0
10762
Sistemas de Gestão de Segurança Alimentar
6.0