Food process engineering is set of post-harvest unit operations and techniques used to transform the
agricultural, livestock, fish and marine products in to food suitable for human consumption and products for
food and allied industry. The Food process engineering department at National Institute of Technology Rourkela
blends engineering disciplines with a strong understanding of food and food science.
The academic and research activities in the department focus on the frontier areas of food process engineering
such as food properties and prediction, post-harvest operations, food quality and safety, transport process and
kinetics, product development and ingredients innovation, food packaging and storage engineering, computer aided
food engineering, energy efficiency, process control and efficiency, automation and manufacturing systems. Food
process engineers can specialise in design, development, research, maintenance and operations such as processing,
packaging, storage and transportation.