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作为中国第一所引进以色列优质高等教育资源的中外合作大学，广东以色列理工学院针对21世纪人类社会面临的环境污染、人类健康、资源匮乏三大挑战开设了以下专业：
化学工程与工艺
生物技术与食品工程
材料科学与工程
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近期，我们请师生分别详解广以开设的三个本科专业。本期带你走进的是生物技术与食品工程专业~
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课程介绍
什么是生物技术与食品工程？
21世纪给人类社会带来了许多新的挑战，其中包括人口的快速增长。到2050年，地球人口将超过90亿。随着人口的增加，人类面临着如何改善健康和营养、提高生活质量等一系列问题，同时更需要应对如何营建可持续的绿色地球的挑战。面对这些挑战，生物技术与食品工程的相关行业可以提供解决方案。众所周知，这些行业是知识密集型的，其特点是创新、精致，不断寻求新的挑战和解决方案。今天，生物技术与食品工程的研究有望将人类文明的未来推向新的高度。现代生物技术将用于服务人类，涵盖食品、医药、农业和能源领域。
我们生活在生物技术世纪，目睹了许多突破和发现：青霉素的工业化生产， DNA结构的破译，遗传密码的破解和人类基因组计划，第一只克隆哺乳动物（绵羊多利），以及最近研发制造的人工合成生命体和实验室“人造肉”。在未来，生物技术和食品工程专业的学生将学习如何将物理、化学和生物学等领域的尖端知识应用到生物技术与食品行业中。本质上，生物技术与食品工程是跨学科的专业，毕业生可以在多个不同行业工作、整合，如制药、环保、食品加工、农业和可再生能源等。
广以生物技术与食品工程专业的特色
广东以色列理工学院的生物技术与食品工程专业的独特之处在于工程技术研究与生命科学应用的结合，这一跨学科的专业设置在国际上并不多见。广以的生物技术与食品工程专业沿用以色列理工学院的课程设置，其历史已超过50年，而以色列理工学院则是世界顶级的研究型大学。目前，国内其他大学尚未开设将生物技术和食品工程结合在一起的专业。在广以取得生物技术与食品工程学位的学生，将具备生物技术和食品科学两个领域的专门技能和知识。这两个领域经常与生物材料发生联系，它是工程技术类核心课程的基础。
为期四年的课程设置包括了自然科学（数学、物理、化学、生物）和计算机科学与工程的核心课程，在此基础上结合工程内容，延伸至生命科学与生物技术的其他高级专题。本专业的后续课程立足于生物技术、食品工程、生命科学与食品科学等三个领域。相当一部分的专业学习是在实验室和工厂进行的。学生们还将通过学习“生物医学的创新和创业”来培养其创造、创新和创业能力。本专业还为学生介绍有关知识产权、生物技术公司和项目的现实知识和经验，其教学目标之一，就是教导学生如何组建初创公司。
广以学生的另一个优势是近距离接触到在学校开展的一系列高端研究。从第三学年开始，学生可以加入广以科学家带领的研究项目。除此之外，学生还可以在以色列理工学院等世界知名高校进行一个学期或假期的海外交流学习。
职业发展
本专业旨在培养能够胜任在生物技术和食品工程领域工作的毕业生，为学生打开进入生物物理、生物化学和物理化学等高科技行业的大门。毕业生可在食品、制药、医疗设备、化妆品、环境保护、标准化机构以及食药品监管机构等部门工作。
本专业还为学生的深造打下基础。本专业的研究涵盖了一系列最先进的课题，包括生物技术、微生物学和分子生物学、食品工程与技术、干细胞和组织工程、毒理学、合成生物学、生物化学和营养学、遗传学、动植物科学，包装学、酶学、封装学、生物聚合物、蛋白质工程和计算生物学等。
最重要的是，作为一所专注于应用研究的创新型大学，广以将鼓励学生运用在学习中获得的深度基础知识来解决重大的社会挑战，从而在职业生涯早期探索出创新创业的方法。
研究领域
广以生物技术与食品工程学科的的科研活动大致分为两大类，我们的毕业生可以从事以下研究：
1）生物技术：生物技术研究多种多样，包括细胞和组织工程，药物输送，基因组学和宏基因组学，定向进化，环境与农业微生物学，基因治疗，病原体交流，免疫学和合成生物学。从生物技术的角度来看，这些研究方向大多着眼于开发各种具有商业可行性的生化加工和材料的新技术。
2）食品技术和食品工程：食品的加工和生产既包括传统的处理方式，也涉及现代高科技领域，如毒理学，食品安全，可靠、新兴的新一代处理方法和设备设计，功能性食品，食品化学，食物功能和感官分析，食品保鲜，未来的食品开发过程，智能包装，食品微生物学，营养和营养保健品，食品纳米技术，食品生物技术和食品结构和印刷，等等。
以上两个科研方向之间存在一些重叠，因此大部分研究将在跨学科环境中进行。此外，我们还将与广以的化学和环境工程、材料科学与工程等专业合作，同时与我们在全球范围内的科研伙伴展开交流。
广以的生物技术与食品工程学科为研究人员和学生配备了先进的教学和研究设施。在未来，我们的毕业生将致力于攻克粮食安全、寿命延长、环境保护、可再生能源生产等一系列人类社会最紧迫的问题。
老师建议
建议学生熟习高中阶段的生物、化学、数学和物理科目。由于广以的教学是全部用英语完成的，所以学生应具备良好的英文和中文沟通技巧。学生们需要有内在的动力进行创新、探索、分析，培育批判性思维。
感谢GTIIT生物技术与食品工程系梁嘉言教授供稿
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Program Introduction
The 21st century brings to the human society many new challenges including rapid growing population, which by 2050 will surpass the 9 billion mark. Alongside with the increase in population, challenges of improving health, nutrition and quality of life are some of the issues that humankinds need to juggle with as well as to have a more sustainable and green planet earth. On these challenges, solutions can come from the biotechnological and food industries. These industries are known to be knowledge-intensive, characterized by innovativeness, sophistication, and a constant search for new challenges and solutions. Today, the studies of Biotechnology and Food Engineering (BFE) holds promise to drive the future of human civilization into a new height. Modern technologies in biology will be used for the service of humans in the fields of food, medicine, agriculture, and energy among others.
We are living in a biotechnology century and we have witnessed many breakthroughs and discoveries. For example, the industrial production of penicillin, deciphering the structure of DNA, decoding the genetic code and the human genome project, the first cloning of a mammal (Dolly the sheep), and recently the production of the first synthetic bacteria and “lab grown” meat. The future students in biotechnology and food engineering will learn to apply the cutting-edge knowledge from the general fields of physics, chemistry and biology into advance applications in the biotechnology and food industry. As biotechnology and food engineering discipline is interdisciplinary by its nature, the future graduates can integrate and work with many different industries such as: pharmaceuticals, environmental protection, food processing, agriculture and renewable energy.
In Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology (GTIIT), the Program of Biotechnology and Food Engineering is one of a few in the world that is uniquely characterized by merging between engineering-technology research and translational applications in life sciences. The BFE program at GTIIT follows the same curriculum as in Technion, which has a history of more than 50 years. Technion is a research-intensive university that consistently ranks among the world's top science and technology universities. In China, there is no other university that offers both biotechnology and food engineering in the same program. Students having completed a BFE degree at GTIIT, are equipping with engineering know-hows in two areas: biotechnology and food science. Working with biological materials is common to both fields, it provides a basis for core courses in engineering and technology.
The four-year program consists of a basket of core courses in natural sciences (mathematics, physics, biology, and chemistry) and computer science, which together with advanced engineering courses, provides the background for integrating engineering studies into advanced subjects of life sciences and biotechnology. The remainder of the program is based on three areas: biotechnology; engineering and technology for food engineering; and life and food sciences. A key portion of studies takes place in hands-on laboratories, pilot plant stations with pilot scale equipment and bioreactors, packaging facilities, and includes visits to biotechnology and food companies in the Shantou area and the Guangdong Province. The students also study "Biomedical-Innovation and Entrepreneurships" to develop students' creative, innovative, and entrepreneurial skills. Real life know-hows and experience about intellectual property, biotechnology companies and projects are presented. One of our goals is to teach students how to form start-up companies.
Additional advantage for GTIIT's students is the proximity to the advance research that is done in GTIIT. The GTIIT's students can join from the third year of their program to a research project that is done in GTIIT's research laboratories with GTIIT's leading researchers. Students will also spend one semester studying in Technion, Israel for overseas exchange experience.
Career Prospects
The program is designed to prepare graduates for work in different fields of biotechnology and/or food engineering – providing access to diverse industries that incorporate high-technology on biophysical, biochemical, and physico-chemical processes. Graduates who receive a BSc degree can be employed, among other fields, in the food; pharmaceuticals; medical device; cosmetics; and environmental protection industries, as well as in standards institutes, and food and drug regulation.
The program also prepares students for exiting academic life and research. Research activities in the BFE Program cover a range of state-of-the-art topics, including the following: biotechnology, microbiology and molecular biology, food engineering and technology, stem cells and tissue engineering, toxicology, synthetic biology, biochemistry and nutrition, genetics, animal and plant science, packaging, enzymology, encapsulation, biopolymers, protein engineering and computational biology.
Most importantly, being an innovation-oriented University with a strong focus on applied research, GTIIT will encourage graduate students to apply the in-depth basic knowledge gained during their education to solve grand societal challenges and thus, explore entrepreneurship approach early on in their careers.
Research Area
The research activity of the BFE department at GTIIT may be broadly classified into two groups, therefore our students in their graduate year can do research as follows,
1) Biotechnology: the biotechnology research is very heterogeneous, it includes cell and tissue engineering; drug delivery; genomics and metagenomics; directed evolution; environmental and agricultural microbiology; gene therapy; host-pathogen interactions; immunology; and synthetic biology—most of which aim, from a biotechnological perspective, to develop novel technologies that can exploit a biological process or material in a commercially viable way.
2) Food technology and Food engineering: scientific and engineering aspects of food processing and production from farm-to-fork including both "traditional" and modern Hi-Tech fields such as toxicology; food safety; classic, emerging, and next generation treatment methods and equipment design; functional foods; food chemistry; food instrumental and sensory analysis; food preservation; future food product development processes; intelligent packaging; food microbiology; nutrition and nutraceuticals; food nanotechnology; food biotechnology; and food structuring and printing.
There are some overlaps between the two groups, and therefore most of the research would be conducted in an inter-disciplinary environment. Further, we will also collaborate with other programs at GTIIT such as chemical and environmental engineering, and material science engineering for our research as well as our networks of international collaborators.
The BFE discipline at GTIIT is equipped with advanced teaching and research facilities for researchers and students. Our graduates will lead the way in the coming years tackling the most urgent issues of human society such as: food security, life extension without hampering the life wellbeing, environment protection, renewable energy production and more.
Advice
Prospective students are recommended to have a strong background in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics at high-school level. In addition, they should have good language and communication skills in English and Chinese as the teaching at GTIIT is done completely in English. He/she ideally needs to have an internal drive to be innovative, to explore, and to analyze and think critically.
Prof. Ka Yin Leung contributed substantially to this introduction
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