Facilities

The department's home since its inception in 1968, the Food Science and Technology building houses FST's main office, classrooms, analytical instrumentation, equipment, and research-scale facilities for use by students. The building is home to a fully equipped research winery, teaching laboratories equipped for modern chemical, physical, and microbiological analyses, a newly renovated flexible SCALE-UP classroom, and a 5,000-square-foot pilot plant that contains FST's aquaculture facilities

The 93,500 square foot LEED-certified HABB1 building is designed to incorporate open workspaces and communal areas for faculty, students, and industry to work collaboratively. Research areas include pilot plants, laboratories, support facilities and a sensory/flavor testing suite with camera-equipped individual sensory panel booths and conference rooms. The pilot plants feature flexible high-bay equipment areas for use in the development of scale-up operations and process/packaging engineering systems.