Specialty – Innovation in Foodstuffs and Agro-Resources (IAA)
The Innovation in Foodstuffs and Agro-Resources (IAA) specialty aims to train versatile engineers with the skills to develop the products of tomorrow, take into account new nutritional challenges, and organize and improve production tools in the food and agro-resource industries.
Description
Programme
The GB-IAA programme proposes and covers specifically analysis of biological and food products, quality assessment, biological risks and food safety issues in the agro-food industries, metabolic sciences and engineering, bio-reactor vessels, product formulation, innovation, nutrition, agro-industrial processes, and innovating marketing is these fields.
Research
GB-IAA trains students for research and development in the agro-resource domains, notably via long agro-food product projects. A large proportion of the students here obtain jobs in R&D activities.
Placements and industrial relations
The choice of the GB specialty follows suit to 6 months placements an assistant engineer (in an industrial context) and engineering training ends with successful completion of an end-of-studies project, also with a partner enterprise. Examples of partnerships with Nestlé, Mondelz International or Carrefour. The end-of-study projects are very varied, from development of industrial products to execute missions as QA managers, or with production line assignments.
International openings
Undergraduates in GB-IAA can request a full semester abroad or register for a double degree with an institution partner to UTC; there is a wide range of venues for such semesters outside France.
Professional openings
Professional openings 67 % of the job openings stem from project work, often in major groups (Danone, Nestlé, Unilever, …) ; they can join major groups or SMEs in the following areas:
- Foodstuff development/ additives;
- Foodstuff safety assessments;
- Production and process management, in the foodstuff and agro-resource sectors;
- Transformation of agricultural produce, including non-food valorisation;
- Industrial biotechnologies.



