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Bioprocessing and Food Emphasis

Processing of agricultural and biological materials yields many important products, from foods to pharmaceuticals. In this emphasis, you prepare for careers to design or develop:

  • systems for processing, storing, and distributing food and agricultural products.
  • processes to recover and purify products such as proteins produced through biotechnology.
  • processes to make products such as biodegradable plastics from biological materials.
  • new food products as a member of a team of food scientists and marketing specialists.
  • systems to ensure food safety and quality.
  • systems for automatic sensing and control of processes to manufacture food products and other biomaterials.

Our graduates have been employed by

AMEC, Inc.
Cargill, Inc.
Frito-Lay
General Mills, Inc.
Hormel
Jerome Foods
Land O'Lakes, Inc.
The Pillsbury Co.

Salaries start at $40,000-$45,000.

 

 

 
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