Education of Food Quality and Design
The Food Quality and Design Group is responsible for teaching several courses. Additionally you can perform an internship or thesis at our department.
At Food Quality and Design it is possible to perform a bachelor and master thesis. On this page you can find the thesis booklets with all topics within FQD for the studies BFT, MFT, MFQ, BBC and MME.
BSc an MSc programmes
The following programmes are allowed to perform a thesis at FQD:
- BSc Food Science and Technology (BFT)
- BSc Management and Consumer Studies (BBC)
- MSc Food Science and Technology (MFT)
- Specialization A - Product Design and Ingredient Functionality
- Specialization B - Sustainable Food Process Engineering
- Specialization D - Dairy Science and Technology
- Specialization E - Food Digestion and Health
- Specialization G - Sensory Science
- MSc Food Quality Management (MFQ)
- MSc Management, Economics and Consumer Studies (MME)
Internship
The student, supervisor and examiner will arrange some of the mentioned aspects of the thesis research in a thesis contract. The original version of the contract will be handed over at the start of the work by the secretary.
General Information
The internship is a compulsory part of the Masters at Wageningen University. During an academic internship, the acquired knowledge and skills are put into practice while gaining relevant work experience at an academic level. The aim of the internship is to apply knowledge and perform skills in a potential future work field, for example in a company, a public institution, a research organisation, another university, or a non-governmental organisation, thereby broadening the academic horizon.
There are plenty of possible internship hosts. Students can look for internship hosts themselves or have a look at the vacancies that are shared via the internship coordinators.
Students can find more elaborate information on the internship Brightspace:
Courses
Our group offers BSc and MSc courses in the following areas:
- Product Design
- Dairy Science and Technology
- Food Quality Management
- Consumer Science
Our courses are part of the following programs:
Product Design
- FQD-10306 Food Quality from a Business and Consumer Perspective
- FQD-20804 Quality System Operations
- FQD-21306 Food Packaging and Design
- FQD-23306 Research Topics on Food and Society, a Gamma-Beta approach
- FQD-23806 Meat Science
- FQD-24306 Case Studies Product Quality
- FQD-31306 Predicting Food Quality
- FQD-31806 Product Properties and Consumer Wishes
- FQD-37806 Food Flavour Design
- FQD-60312 Product and Process Design
Dairy Science and Technology
- FQD-21806 Milk in the Dairy Chain
- FQD-32306 Dairy Science and Technology
- FQD-33306 Dairy Chemistry and Physics
Food Quality Management
- FQD-20306 Food Quality Management
- FQD-22306 Food Quality Analysis and Judgement
- FQD-33806 Usability Research in Product Design
- FQD-36306 Food Fraud Mitigation
- FQD-38306 Advanced Tools in Quality Management
- FQD-64306 Food Quality Management Research Principles I
- FQD-64806 Food Quality Management Research Principles II
Consumer Science
Online courses
- FQD-37403 Predicting Food Quality - Solving food science problems by modelling
- FQD-37303 Predicting Food Quality - Theoretical principles of modelling
- FQD-63303 Product and Process Design - Principles of consumer-oriented food product design
- FQD-63403 Product and Process Design - Idea generation and selection of a product concept
- FQD-63503 Product and Process Design - Evaluation of a product concept from a sustainable food processing perspective
- FQD-63603 Product and Process Design - Evaluation of scientific reports including an ethical assessment
FQD also participates in
- ENT-21306 Insects as Food and Feed
- FCH-22308 Food Properties and Function
- FCH-31806 Advanced Biochemical Analysis of Foods
- FHM-21806 Food Fermentation
- FHM-30806 Advanced Fermentation Science
- FHM-61312 Food Safety Management
- FPE-10808 Food Production Chains
- FPH-10306 Food Technology I
- MCB-30806 Sensory Perception and Consumer Preference
- MCB-33306 Integrated Sensory Science
- ORL-31806 Food Logistic Management
- SCH-23306 Health and Environment in Bèta-Gamma perspective
- YSS-33306 Advanced Consumer Studies
- YSS-36306 Data Science for Food and Consumer Behaviour Research
- YSS-36806 Consumer Studies for Sustainability: Perspectives and Ethics
- YSS-37806 Advanced Qualitative Approaches for Consumer Studies