Conference of Food Engineering 2003

对食物和其他生物系统的理解的迅速变化仍然是召开这次会议的主要原因之一。食品工业的迫切需求和新的目标不断挑战着食品加工工程领域和领域目前和未来的研究方向，并不断涌现和发展。许多重要的、进步的和技术的变革正在推进，没有其他论坛，只有食品工程会议(COFE)，它将工程基础与食品科学的基本原理结合起来，并采用这种综合方法。食品技术研究所(IFT)的重点是食品配料和配方，而不是食品加工的工程方面。美国农业工程师协会(ASAE)主要处理收获后的过程。COFE 2003由来自美国多所大学和主要食品行业的不同食品工程师召开，以应对正在发生的众多快速变化，这些变化将勾勒出食品工程领域的未来研究方向。

Rapid changes in the understanding of food as well as other biological systems continue to be one of the major reasons for putting this meeting together. Critical needs and new objectives arising from the food industry continually challenge present and future research directions of the food processing engineering field and areas continually surge and develop. Many important, progressive, and technological changes are advancing and there is no other forum but the Conference of Food Engineering (CoFE) that combines engineering fundamentals with basic principles of food science with such an integrating approach. The Institute of Food Technology (IFT) emphasis is on food ingredients and formulation, not on engineering aspects of food processing. The American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE) deals primarily with post harvest processes. CoFE 2003 is being convened by different food engineers from several U.S. universities and key food industries to address the numerous and rapid transformations taking place that will outline future research directions in the food engineering field.