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ਗੁਰੂ ਅੰਗਦ ਦੇਵ ਵੈਟਨਰੀ ਐਂਡ ਐਨੀਮਲ ਸਾਇੰਸਜ਼ ਯੂਨੀਵਰਸਿਟੀ
Guru Angad Dev Veterinary And Animal Sciences University

ADMISSION 2019-20
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College of Dairy and Food Science Technology

Dairy Engineering
DAIRY-ENGINEERING

Dairy Engineering department was established as one of the major departments of the college. The department offers postgraduate programs i.e. M.Tech. and Ph.D. in Dairy Engineering; besides offering course related to Dairy Engineering stream at undergraduate level. The department is blessed with very young and dynamic faculty who has secured many competitive research grants from various funding agencies including NABARD , RKVY,  DST, etc. The faculty has good international exposure at reputed universities across USA, Canada and Australia. 


 The department works with a dedicated goal to empower graduates and postgraduates students with various aspects of milk receiving equipments, milk pasteurization plant and products manufacturing equipments such as vacuum evaporator, spray drier, roller drier, Homogenizer, ice cream freezer etc. Students are also given exposure to operation of Boiler, Refrigeration plant and various types of pumps during the course of study. Besides teaching and research laboratories, the department is also involved in upkeep and maintenance of Experimental Dairy Plant of 5,000 litres milk handling capacity per day which is working 365 days a year. As per the requirements of the individual course some of the practical classes and hands-on training of students are also conducted in the Experimental Dairy Plant in various sections viz., liquid milk processing and packaging section, dairy products manufacturing and packaging section, and Engineering section. For industrial exposure visit is arranged in various milk plants across the country. 


The department grooms students with best teaching methods, high-end research and provides opportunity to interact with academicians of national and international repute, persons from industry. The department has achieved breakthrough in developing a number of process equipment for manufacturing indigenous milk products. The division is exploring more tie-ups with equipment manufacturers and users for their collaboration in development or in adoption of the developed equipment.


Faculty of department is trained at national institute like ICAR-NDRI, Karnal and SLIET, Longowal , ICAR-CIPHET and Punjab Agricultural University to improve upon the professional skills.During the brief period scientists of the department have 

Students : All students passed out from the department are well placed in dairy industry, state departments or pursuing higher studies in leading Indian and foreign universities. Students have bagged several best posters, oral presentation awards at national and international conferences.