FDSC 856

This advanced laboratory techniques course provides graduate students with both theory (lecture) and laboratory practice on diverse analytical techniques associated with food and bioproduct chemistry and compositional analysis. Major topics of the lectures include various food compositional analysis, physical property and ingredient functionality testing. Both traditional approaches and advanced analytical technologies will be covered. For the lab portion, hands-on training and practice of fundamental food analysis skills will be conducted. Students will learn various official food compositional analysis approaches, and will apply them to real-world food product analysis during the lab session. A one-time in-class experiment design will be conducted to evaluate students’ knowledge and understanding of the analytical methods learned during the semester. A term paper on advanced food analysis technology from peer-reviewed journals will be assigned and critically evaluated.