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Accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org

CACEI National Accreditation

CIEES Level 1

Double Degree option with City U of Seattle

"Develop your ingenuity to produce safe, nutritious, pleasant and innovative food"

Professional capable of applying and integrating in an ethical and critical manner the fundamental principles of Science and Engineering for the operation, design, optimization and innovation of transformation, conservation, and development processes of new food products with quality standards in a national, international, and sustainable environment.

Program´s educational objectives (PEOs)

Food Engineering educational program, offered by the UASLP (Western Zone campus), is designed in such a way the students, through solid comprehensive training, can achieve their professional goals so that after a few years after graduation they are able to:

Develop industrial projects and/or create his/her own company with responsibility and professional ethics, aware of the importance of lifelong learning.

Direct engineering processes optimizing financial, technological, material, human resources and respecting the environment.

Design and/or apply new technologies for products and processes development in the food industry, in accordance with consumer trends and regulations.

Apply, generate, and disseminate knowledge for the benefit of the social and productive sector.

Work effectively in collaboration with professionals from other disciplines in problem solving.

Labour Market

Food Industry: there are 3,306 economic units or industrial companies in the food industry registered in Mexico (DENUE, 2020).

• Production
  • Quality Assurance and Management
  • Quality control
  • Research and Development of New Products
  • Administration
  • Logistics
  • Packaging Engineering
  • Environmental safety (water and waste treatment)
• Research Centers.
• Educational institutions.
• Government and Legislation agencies.
• Advisory and Consulting services.
• Entrepreneur (entrepreneurship).