Food Production Engineering and Business (B.Eng.)
Program structure
Structure of the program
In the first academic year (1st and 2nd semesters), you will lay the subject-specific foundations for your further studies through required modules. Starting from the 3rd semester, you will deepen your knowledge in the areas of food technology and/or business management through elective modules, according to your personal preferences.
Block Week
Each semester includes a block week, allowing time for special events outside of the regular course schedule. Through the project work in the 5th semester and the professional practical project in the final semester, you will be gradually prepared for your future career.
Modules
Compulsory modules:
- Digitization and Programming
- Principles of Business Economics and Management Accounting
- Production of Raw Materials of Plant Origin and Plant Products
- Food Microbiology and Laboratory Techniques
- Mathematical Methods
- Statistics
Special modules:
- Block Seminars (Elective module that can be selected from the 1st semester onwards)
- Excursions and Conferences (Compulsory module that can be selected from the 1st semester onwards)
Compulsory modules:
- Management Accounting
- Food of Animal Origin
- Food Science and Food Processing
- Food Engineering
- Planning and Preparing Scientific Projects
Elective modules:
- Biotechnology and Enzyme Technology
- Controlling
- Retail Marketing and Sales
- Nutrition and Health
- Sensory Food Science
- Food Safety
- Marketing in Practice
- Post-harvest Physiology
- Practice for Market and Social Research
- Product Knowledge and Quality Assurance for Animal Products
- Quantitative Methods of Production and Logistics Planning
- Processing of Plant Products
Compulsory modules:
Elective modules:
- Alternative Proteins (in English)
- Procurement Management
- Basics in Biochemistry
- Digital Lab (in Englisch)
- Economics and Transformation (in Englisch)
- English for Projects (in Englisch)
- Enzymatic Food Processing (in Englisch)
- Future Skill: Professionell Conversational Skills
- Principles of Communication
- Wholesale and Retail Management
- Food Biotechnology
- Food Process Engineering
- Analytical Methods in Molecular Biology
- Organic, Integrated and Conventional Production in Horticulture
- Process Optimization in Production and Logistics
- Problem Solving with Artificial Intelligence
- Project Market and Social Research
- Project Innovation Management and Future Skills
- Quality of Plants and Plant Organs
- Special Food Technologies (in Englisch)
- Sustainable Agri-Food Systems (in Englisch)
- Sustainability Management (in Englisch)
- Packaging Technology
- Sales Management
- Tools for Market and Social Research
Compulsory modules:
Elective modules:
- Advanced Food Processing Techniques
- Entrepreneurship and Finances
- Functional Food
- Functionality of Alternative Proteins
- Future Skill: Professionell Conversational Skills
- International Plant and Food Production
- Instrument-based Analytics of Food
- Analytical Methods in Molecular Biology
- Public Relations in Agricultural and Food Industries
- Life Cycle Assement
- Scientific Project Management and Writing
- Sensory Evaluation and Product Development
- Sales Management and Selling
Elective module for studying at a foreign university:
- Semester Abroad (20 ECTS)
*The “Practical Project” module can also be taken in the 4th semester or across the 4th and 5th semesters. The alternative “International Project” module can only be taken in the 4th semester.
- Compulsory Modules:
- Excursions and Conferences (Compulsory module that can be selected from the 1st semester onwards)
- Internship Project
- Bachelor Thesis