The Food Engineering Department of the Universidad del Bío Bío, since 1996 has been developing a Postgraduate Improvement Program, which has allowed it to currently have 1 master’s degree, 9 PhDs and 3 doctoral candidates. This critical mass of postgraduates together with the level of productivity developed in recent years has led the Department of Food Engineering, according to the 2010 performance report, to be the first Department with the highest scientific productivity of the institution. This academic development allowed, in 2005, the creation of the Master in Food Science and Engineering which was later accredited in 2006, becoming the first accredited graduate program at the Universidad del Bio Bio.
Coherent with the Strategic Development Plan proposed by the Universidad del Bio Bio for the period 2005-2009 and currently for the period 2010-2014, the Department of Food Engineering has defined as central guidelines of its Development Plan, the increase in the offer of Postgraduate Programs and their strengthening. In this context, in 2007 the Department of Food Engineering was awarded the MECESUP Project UBB0706 “Design of a Doctoral Program in Food Engineering with international projection”. The results of this MECESUP project are the ones that have given rise to the implementation of the D. Program in Food Engineering..
Objective:
To train researchers capable of producing new scientific-technological knowledge in the areas of Emerging Processes and Technologies or Bioprocesses and Chemistry of Natural Products, through the development of original and independent research. Contributing to the development of the food sector, through the communication of their results to the national and international scientific society.
