Specialty - Agro-food industries (GPI-AI)

The specialty GPI-AI aims at training generalist engineers capable of also understanding industrial processes and those that depend on biological sourced products.

Programme

The programme covers all essential aspects of agro-food processes:

transformation of agricultural products including non-food valorisation

production and product management

operational biotechnological industries

QA, safety of bio products and bioprocesses

Academic staff

The GPI-AI lecturers are personnel in Bio Engineering for the micro-biological and molecular physico-chemical analyses aspects and from Process Engineering for the matter transformation aspects. They are backed up by the UTC-TIMR (Integrated transformations of renewable matter) research laboratory.

Equipment

GPI-AI students can access:

large volume sterilisers

a pasteurisation pilot station

a crystallization station (by cooling band vacuum evaporation)

pulsed air deep-freezers

as well as various presses, membrane filter modules, diffusion units, extruders ...

International

Some 50% of the GP-AI students, over and above the placements overseas spend a full semester in University exchange programme (in Germany, the UK, Canada, Brazil ...). There is also a shared specialty with the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal.

Professional Openings

GPI-AI graduates usually are recruited in the major agro-food industries (such as Danone, Nestlé, Unilever, Cagill ...) and some 90% secure their first position in the 6 months after their graduation.

Secteurs d'activité

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Further Education

UTC also proposes to GPI-AI graduates:

a Master's degree in "Transformation and Valorisation of Natural Resources" in two specialties: "Processes and Valorisation Technologies for Renewable Resources) (PTV2R) and "Product formulation engineering" (GPF)