Spring 2027

Engineering Properties of Food and Biological Materials

Engineering Properties of Food and Biological Materials studies physical, mechanical, and thermal properties of food and biological materials, emphasizing their role in designing and operating food and bioprocess engineering systems.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Xuejun Pan

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.25 GPA, 37.5% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2024: 2.94 GPA, 44.4% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.00 GPA, 31.2% A/AB (n=16 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Describe the engineering properties of food and biomaterials, including physical, rheological, thermal, aerodynamic and hydrodynamic, and electromagnetic properties

  • Explain moisture and water activity and their impacts on the properties and processing of food and biomaterials

  • Demonstrate the importance and applications of the engineering properties in agricultural systems

  • Analyze how the environmental conditions and the composition and structure of biomaterials affect the engineering properties

  • Interpret the designs, working principles, experimental setups. and operations of the instruments/devices for measuring/determining the engineering properties

  • Identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics (ABET Outcome 1)

  • Develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze, and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions (ABET Outcome 6)

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Prerequisites

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(BSE 249 or CBE 250) and (M E 361 or CBE 310)

BSE 364

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.25 GPA, 37.5% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2024: 2.94 GPA, 44.4% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.00 GPA, 31.2% A/AB (n=16 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

XUEJUN PAN is recorded teaching in Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2023: 3.25 GPA, 37.5% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Spring 2024: 2.94 GPA, 44.4% A/AB (n=9 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.00 GPA, 31.2% A/AB (n=16 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Physical, mechanical, and thermal properties of food and biological materials.
  • Design and operation of food and bioprocess engineering systems based on material property values.
  • Rheological, aerodynamic, hydrodynamic, and electromagnetic properties of food and biomaterials.
  • Moisture and water activity in food and biomaterial processing.
  • Instruments and devices for measuring engineering properties of food and biomaterials.

Skills

  • Describe physical, rheological, thermal, aerodynamic, hydrodynamic, and electromagnetic properties of food and biomaterials.
  • Explain moisture and water activity and their impacts on food and biomaterial properties and processing.
  • Demonstrate the importance and applications of engineering properties in agricultural systems.
  • Analyze how environmental conditions and biomaterial composition and structure affect engineering properties.
  • Interpret designs, working principles, experimental setups, and operations of instruments for measuring engineering properties.
  • Identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems using engineering, science, and mathematics principles.
  • Develop and conduct experiments, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions.

Grades

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BSE 364 · Spring 2027

Engineering Properties of Food and Biological Materials

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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