Food Engineering Students, Graduates, & Faculty Attend IFT 2018

August 2, 2018  |  Chicago, IL

Students, former graduates and faculty from the Food Engineering Division participated in the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting and Food Expo 2018 at Chicago, IL, and won several awards and recognition, highlighting BSE and WSU. The IFT Annual Meeting is one of the events that every food technology professional looks forward to each year. IFT 2018 brought together 23000 attendees from industry, academia and government, focused and passionate towards the science of food. Here is a list of our achievements this year:

 

 

Attendees:

• Faculty: Drs. Gustavo Barbosa-Cánovas and Shyam S. Sablani
• Students: Atisheel Kak, Jiewen (Grace) Guan, Juhi Patel, Li-Huei (Emily) Chen, Pavitra Krishna Kumar, Zhi Qu
• Past Graduates: Drs. Ellen Bornhorst, Hongchao Zhang, Sumeet Dhawan

Poster Presentations:

• Food engineering division:
  • A fluorescence-based method for estimation of oxygen barrier properties of wall materials in spray dried microcapsules
    Atisheel Kak*, Poonam Bajaj, Kanishka Bhunia, Nitin Nitin, Shyam S. Sablani
• Food microbiology division:
  • Water activity at treatment temperature is the determining factor to influence thermal resistance of Salmonella enteritidis PT30 in different flour matrices
    Jie Xu, Jiewen (Grace) Guan*, Juming Tang

• Food packaging division:
  • Effect of barrier properties of polymer pouches on shelf life of Microwave-Assisted Thermally Sterilized Ready-to-Eat Macaroni and Cheese*
    Juhi Patel*, Hongchao Zhang, Juming Tang, Carolyn F. Ross, Tom C. Yang, Shyam S. Sablani, Renata Queiroz
    Third place, Student poster competition, Food packaging division
  • Shelf life stability of a Ready-to-Eat sweet potato puree processed using Microwave-Assisted Thermal Sterilization and packaged with high barrier polymeric pouches
    Hongchao Zhang*, Juhi Patel, Kanishka Bhunia, Chandrashekhar R. Sonar, Saleh M. Al-Ghamdi, Carolyn F. Ross, Juming Tang, Shyam S. Sablani.

• Refrigerated and frozen foods division:
  • Understanding ice recrystallization during frozen storage and its influence on mechanical properties of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) var. Russet Brown
    Pavitra Krishna Kumar*, Kanishka Bhunia, Juming Tang, Barbara Rasco, Pawan S. Takhar, Shyam S. Sablani (*Second place, Student poster competition, Refrigerated and frozen foods division)

*Presenting author

Division Leadership:

• Food engineering division – Student representatives
  • 2016-2018
    Jie (Chris) Xu
    Pavitra Krishna Kumar*
    *Outstanding division volunteer award
  • 2018-2020
    Sumeyye Inanaoglu
    Jiewen (Grace) Guan
    Yonas Gezahegn

• Food packaging division – Chair
  • 2018-2019
    Dr. Shyam S. Sablani

Symposium: Marcel Loncin lectures: Advances in Food Materials Science:

• Co-moderators:
  Dr. Shyam S. Sablani
  Dr. Shelly J Schmidt, Professor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, IL
• Oral presentation: Rational design of encapsulation systems for improved oxidative stability of micronutrients
  Dr. Shyam S. Sablani

Past Graduates Attendee Achievements:

• Emerging Leaders Network Program: Dr. Sumeet Dhawan
• Division poster competition judges:
  • Fruit and vegetable processing division: Dr. Ellen Bornhorst
  • Food packaging division: Dr. Hongchao Zhang

 

More information can be found on the IFT website