Course Details

• Credit: 8
• Semester: 1 & 2 (Course is offered in TWO (2) semesters)
• Prerequisites:
  1. Students must take all core courses of levels 100, 200, and 300, and
  2. Students have collected at least 50 credit units of core courses.

Synopsis

This course will introduce to the student a problem relating to food technology, and students will be supervised by lecturers in carrying out literature search, laboratory work and thesis writing. A series of lectures on research philosophy, experimental design, scientific thinking, laboratory safety, thesis writing, viva presentation and others also must be attended.

Course Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
1. Provide alternative ideas and solutions to address problems in Food Technology.
2. Lead and conduct research projects ethically.
3. Manipulate tools, measure the response to changes in the parameters studied and, collect and analyze experiment data.
4. Organizing research findings in the form of a thesis.
5. Present and defence research results explicitly and with confidence during viva-voce.