Institute of Food Technologies and Commodity ScienceInstitute of Food Technologies and Commodity Science is the system of
continuous specialist training at the undergraduate, graduate and post graduate
levels in the field of commodity science, trade and public catering.
More than 87% of the Institute staff are Doctors and Candidates of different
sciences. The leading chairs of the Institute in academic and research processes
in the field of food technology and quality are the following: Foodstuff
Science and Expertise, Chemistry, Biochemistry and Applied Ecology, Food
Technology for Public Catering.
Scientific research is connected with developing ecological foodstuffs,
commodity and service quality expertise and estimation, foodstuffs biotechnology
development. Candidates of science are trained at the postgraduate course set up
at the Institute base. The following programs are offered here: Foodstuffs
Science and Food Technology for Public Catering, Non – foodstuffs and Light
Industry Raw Materials Science, Biotechnology.
Postgraduates and competitors for the Candidates of Science scientific degree
have the opportunity to defend their dissertations at the dissertation councils
of Pacific State University of Economics.
The Institute closely collaborates with the Food and Food Processing
Committee of Primorskiy Kray Administration, food and light industry enterprises,
trade and public catering enterprises in the field of scientific developments
and their introducing into business operations. The students of the IFTCS are
very active in scientific research held at the University. 72 graduates have
been the laureates of the all Russia contest for the best student scientific
paper in natural and technical sciences and in arts for the last years. 18
students have been awarded with medals, 54 with special diplomas of the Russian
Ministry of Education in such fields as Food Industry, Biotechnology Light and
Textile Industry Engineer and Economic Sciences.
The Institute trains specialists in the following specialties: Food
Technology for Public Catering, Commodity Science and Expertise, Technology of
Fermentation and Wine Production, Food Biotechnology. |