History

The Department of Food Engineering was founded in 1982 as the Depoartment of Agricultural Products Technology. The founder of the Department was Prof. Dr. H. Hüsnü Gündüz, who was its active member between 1982 and 1988. The master programme started in 1986. The Department was renamed 'Food Science and Technology' in 1989 and 'Food Engineering' in 1994. Out of all Food Engineering departments in Turkiye, our Department was the first one to have doctoral students receiving the title of “Food Engineer”. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Demirci has been in the offifce as Head of Department since 1988. During this period, our Department implemented two main programmes in Food Technology and Food Science. In 2006, following the foundation of Namık Kemal University, our Department became a constituent part of this University's Faculty of Agriculture.