Internships

Food Process and Product Design

Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences
Fields
Food and Nutritional Sciences
Duration
3 – 6 months
Deadline
February 15 for fall internship
October 1 for spring internship
Supervisor
Prof. Dr. Stefan Töpfl
Project description

DIL can offer a range of projects dependent on your study program and area of interest:

- Application potential of novel technologies in food processing

- Life cycle analysis of novel food processing techniques

- Product design for meat replacers and alternative proteins

- Automation in food industry

 

DIL is active in process and equipment design, product innovation as well as food analysis. DIL pilot halls cover meat and dairy processing, extrusion as well as novel processing techniques such as High Pressure Processing, Pulsed Electric Fields or 3-D printing. In the department of Food Process Design at the German Institute of Food Technologies innovative equipment and processes are designed and tested. Projects can focus on product or application development as well as case studies on business cased or consumer perception.

 

The internship student will be involved in running a public or industry funded research project at DIL.

Tasks
Definition of project objectives
Planning and conduction of experimental work
Development of formulations and products
Data acquisition and analysis
Reporting and presenting results to team
Evaluation of economic viability, legal frame-work and labelling requirements
Requirements
Basic knowledge in food technology or related fields, interest in current topics of food processing and products
Languages
English: fluent
German: basic knowledge useful, but not required
Possible beginnings
Within either the summer semester (March – August) or the winter semester (September – February)
Credits
tbd
Payment
tbd
Link
Project website