Food Engineering Department (FDE) at the Federal University of Technology, Minna was established in 2025 within the school of infrastructure, process engineering and technology. The department was created in response to the global imperative for food security and sustainable food industrialization. The Departmental slogan is: ”Feeding the World Through Innovative Technologies”. Our programme is designed to train and produce creative, innovative, technically competent graduates; with contemporary knowledge, proficient soft skills, and abilities to design systems/processes that will transform our local and global food industry. Our graduates are prepared with capacity of conducting scientific and applied research; identifying, analyzing and applying advanced specialist knowledge to solve complex problems encountered in the food industry. The Food industry is one of the fastest growing industries globally; we committed to the training of high-quality workforce needed for revolutionizing the industry. Our programme is designed to train new generation specialists capable of transforming raw agricultural produce into safe, high-quality, nutritious, and economical food products.
Food Engineering, essentially, is multidisciplinary; knowledge of mathematics, natural sciences, computing, engineering fundamentals, modern IT tools, as well as biotechnology, microbiology, biochemistry, and nutrition are needed to evaluate, analyse, model, predict, optimize, and simulate to provide solutions to complex food industry problems. In the first year, general university wide courses are taken. At 200 level, foundation Engineering courses which are designed to expose students to the fundamentals of the Engineering discipline in a broad sense are taken. From third year the courses are narrowed down toward Food Engineering area of specialization.
The idea of Department of Food Engineering (FDE) at Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna was first conceived in 2025 as one of the Departments in the School of Infrastructure Process Engineering and Technology (SIPET). Other departments in the school include Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Agricultural and Bio-Resources Engineering and Materials and Metallurgical Engineering.
In January 2025, the department hosted a Team of professors headed by Prof. Taiwo Olusegun Omobuwajo from the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) for the resource accreditation for the official take-off of the department in the university. In March 2025, the university was given the final nod by the regulating body, NUC, to start the department for bachelor’s degree in engineering, effective from 2024/2025 academic session. Furthermore, in April 2026, the Department hosted the team of assessors from the Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) for resource verification. This visitation, being a mandatory requirement for the establishment of any Engineering Programme in Nigeria, was a success. The University got COREN’s approval to commence the Food Engineering course for a period of two years spanning April 2026 to April 2028. The Department of Food Engineering (FDE) officially came into being with the first set of students admitted into the Department during the 2024/2025 academic session. Dr S. T. Olorunsogo was appointed as the pioneering Head of Department in March 2025.
Accreditation status
Haven secured the nod to start the department from 2024/2025 academic session, the department is expecting National Universities Commission (NUC’s) team, any moment from now, for full accreditation of the department.
Vision
To be a world class programme committed to the development and improvement of processing and packaging of food products for economic, social and cultural well-being.
Mission
Committed to providing high quality and innovative workforce for national development and global competitiveness, the Food Engineering Programme is designed to train graduates with contemporary knowledge and abilities to design and produce safe, high quality, and economical food products and systems; to conduct scientific and applied research and to extend accumulated knowledge to the respective benefits of the food industry and the society.
