Food and Bioprocess Engineering

							                                                                                        Food
                                                                                         and
Our graduates have been                                                              Bioprocess
hired by:
                                                                                     Engineering
  •   Anheuser Busch
  •   A.E. Staley Manufacturing Co.
  •   Anderson Consulting
  •   APV
  •   Archer Daniels Midland                  Sound Interesting?
  •   Aventine Renewable Energy, Inc.                                        Engineering to Feed the World!
  •   Cargill                                         Contact:
  •   Cerestar USA
  •   Del Monte                                      Kent Rausch
  •   FMC Corporation                           Assistant Professor,
  •   Frito-Lay
                                           Food and Bioprocess Engineering
  •   General Mills
                                                   (217) 265-0697
  •   Kellogg’s
  •   Kraft Foods                                 krausch@uiuc.edu
  •   Lauhoff Grain Company
  •   Lipton Foods
  •   Nabisco
  •   Proctor & Gamble
  •   Protein Technologies International
  •   Purina Mills
  •   Quaker Oats
  •   Sigma Chemical
  •   TetraPak
                                                                                  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                                                                                     Agricultural and Biological Engineering
                                                                                                         www.age.uiuc.edu/fbe
                                              …You’re interested in working                Our Learning Environment is…
Food & Bioprocess                             with a range of materials                        Filled with hands-on experience in labs
Engineering is for                            that…                                            and learning demonstrations.


YOU if…
                                                 Are biological and must be understood         Augmented with trips to nearby food
                                                 for successful design                         processing facilities
                                                 Are highly complex food                       Enlivened with guest speakers from
…You’re interested in                            systems that must be safely                   industry
designing bioprocesses that                      processed and packaged
                                                                                               Enhanced by small class sizes (8-15)
                                                 Must be of high quality and are
    Will help feed a growing                     supplied to food, pharmaceutical, and
    global population                            chemical process industries               You will be prepared for many
    Convert biological                           Originate from biological resources to
                                                                                           exciting jobs with:
    materials into useful                        be refined into biomaterials and              Global food processing companies
    foods, biofuels and                          biochemicals
    biochemicals                                                                               Food and beverage processors
                                                 Are used in equipment and control             Ingredient suppliers for human and
    Create ingredients for healthy foods         systems and are compatible with               animal food processors
                                                 biological materials
    Will provide energy from renewable                                                         Competitive salary
    resources
                                              …You’re interested in a
                                                                                           Graduate with a:
…You want to learn Food &                     “hands-on” setting:
                                                                                           Bachelor of Science,
Bioprocess Engineering from:                     Work on class design projects in a team   College of Engineering,
                                                 environment and                           University of Illinois!
   One of the top Departments and
                                                 industrial settings.
   Engineering Colleges in the country
                                                 Emphasize “real
                                                                                           Current curriculum highlights:
   Instructors who have industrial and real
   world experience                              world” problems our                          ABET accredited
                                                 capstone design courses
  Caring instructors and advisors who take                                                    Fundamental Engineering courses and
  a strong interest in students, their           Interact with representatives from the       technical electives
  careers, and their success                     food and bioprocess industry.
                                                                                              Food & Bioprocessing: 5 hr; Chemical
                                                 Work with food materials that challenge      Engineering: 15 hr; Microbiology: 8 hr;
                                                 your engineering skills.                     Food Science: 10 hr