Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Agro-Food-Bio Systems (ET-SAFe-2024), 13-15 February 2025

About The Department

The department of Food Engineering and Technology was established in the year 2006 with the aim of creating skilled human resources in the engineering aspect of food processing to cater the needs of the rapidly growing food processing sector. Since its inception the department has been imparting Post Graduate education in food processing and technology. The department is currently offering B. Tech., M. Tech. and Ph. D. programmes. The B. Tech. programme in Food Engineering and Technology (FET) is approved by the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and has the accreditation of the National Board of Accreditation (NBA) as a Tier-I programme. The M. Tech. in Food Engineering and Technology (FET) is also approved by the AICTE. AICTE offers PG Scholarship to GATE qualified students joining the M.Tech. programme of the Department. The Department also offers Ph. D. in Food Engineering and Technology, and students may take admission through AICTE Doctoral Fellowship (ADF), NET/JRF, and GATE etc. The department has well-developed laboratories for teaching and research created from grants received from various schemes of government agencies viz., MoFPI-HRD, DST-FIST, UGC-SAP and AICTE- NEQIP. The department is running NABL accredited Food Quality Control Laboratory with support from the MoFPI. The Department has been recognized as the State Level Technical Institute (SLTI) for Assam, Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh under the PM-FME scheme of the Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI), GoI, New Delhi. Research activities at the Department are supported by sponsoring agencies like UGC, MoFPI, DST, DBT, DRDO, ICAR, AICTE, MSME, ASTEC, etc. Various projects carried out at the department aims at developing effective and low-cost technologies for the society. Some developed food products and processes have also been patented by the faculties. Workshops, conferences, and seminars are organized regularly in the department for knowledge sharing among peers as well as for motivating  youths.

Vision of the Department

To create trained and skilled human resources well versed in engineering aspects of food processing to cater the needs of the rapidly growing food processing sector.

Mission of the Department

1. To establish itself as the leader in human resource development for supporting the food processing sector.

2. To provide knowledge and skills for better preservation, processing and value addition to agro-products, with the aim of supporting the producers.

3. To promote research and development for product and process and assurance of high level of hygiene and safety of processed food. 

4. To promote food safety laws and regulations for supporting a competitive, modern and safe food market for the consumers.

Food Quality Control Laboratory

With support of Ministry of Food Processing Industries (MoFPI), Government of India, New Delhi the Department has started the "Food Quality Control Laboratory for the North Eastern States of India" FQCL Analysis charges revised

DST-FIST & UGC-SAP Supported Department

B. Tech. Programme is approved by AICTE, New Delhi and accredited by NBA (2016-2022)

M. Tech. Programme is approved by AICTE, New Delhi

B. Voc. Programme has been started from 2015

Department of Food Engineering & Technology, School of Engineering,  Tezpur University, Napaam,

Sonitpur 784028, Assam, India