FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - 452

Science of Dairy Foods (3 hrs)

Fall Semester - 1999

Instructor Dr. John Mount
Office 106 Food Safety Processing Bldg
Office hrs See me, call 974-7279 or email jmount@utk.edu to set a specific time

 

Time 1:25-2:15 MWF       section number - 45668
Location 126 Food Safety and Processing Building
Text None

Objectives:

1) To learn the basic chemical, physical, and microbiological properties of dairy products. 

2) To understand the interactive changes that take place during the manufacture of dairy products. 

3) To understand the basic unit operations that are used to produce dairy products.

4) To understand how quality and safety are built into dairy products and how they are maintained.


SCHEDULE OF CLASS PERIODS AND EXAMS

Assigned Reading

August 25 Introduction to the course
27 Overview of the Dairy Industry
30 Milk from the Farm to the Plant
September 1 Composition of milk
3 Visit U.T. Diary Farm and Milking Parlor
6 Labor Day
8 Milk quality
10 Milk quality - basic tests
13 Milk quality
15 Milk quality
17 Fluid milk products
20 Fluid milk products
22 Fluid milk products
24 Fluid milk products - evaluation
27 Review
29 EXAM 1
October 1 Frozen products
4 Ice Cream                             ingredients
6 Frozen products
8 Frozen products - evaluation
11 Concentrated milk products   evaporators
13 Concentrated milk products
15 Dried dairy products
18 Dried dairy products
20 Concentrated and dried dairy products - evaluation
22 Fall Break
25 Non-dairy creamers
27 Other diary products
29 Other dairy products - evaluation
November 1 Other dairy products 
3 EXAM 2
5 Fermented Dairy Products
8 Cottage cheese
10 Yogurt
12 Cheddar cheese
15 Other cheeses
17 Mold cheeses
19 Cheese - evaluation
22 Other fermented dairy products
24 Other fermented dairy products
26 Thanksgiving
29 Butter
December 1 Margarine
3 Butter & spread - evaluation
6 EXAM 3
8 Nutritive Value of Dairy Products 
15 8:00-10:00 Final Exam

 

Grading system:

Exam 1 100
Exam 2 100
Exam 3 100
Final Exam  100
Participation   70
   Lab project   30
      
TOTAL POINTS 500

 

Grading scale

A 460-500
B+ 430-459
B 400-429
C+ 375-399
C 350-374
D 300-349

Honors Statement:

Each student is responsible for his/her own personal integrity in academic life. Each student is responsible for knowing the terms and conditions of the Honor Statement and acknowledges his/her adherence to the statement by signing each graded class assignment and examination. The statement is: "As a student of the University, I pledge that I will neither knowingly give nor receive any inappropriate assistance in academic work, thus affirming my own personal commitment to honor and integrity.