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Moreira, Rosana

Rosana Moreira

Professor, Director of Online Learning BAEN, Affiliated Faculty of Food Science and Technology
Office:  
310 Scoates Hall
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Phone:  
979-314-8252

Education

Undergraduate Education
B.S., Campinas State University – Brazil, Agricultural Engineering, 1980
Graduate Education
M.S., Michigan State University, Agricultural Engineering, 1983
Ph.D., Michigan State University, Agricultural Engineering, 1989
Awards
2016 Dean of Engineering Excellence Award for Full Professor Rank, Texas A&M College of Engineering
2013 William Keeler Fellow - Texas A&M College of Engineering
2013 Institute of Food Technologists Fellow - Food Engineering Division
2014 Institute of Food Technologists, Food Engr. Division, Outstand Service Award
2013 Dean's Outstanding Achievement Awards – Texas A& M College of Agriculture and Life science
2011 Hans Merensky Fellow– Hans Merensky Foundation – South Africa

Areas of Expertise

  • Fundamental modeling and automatic control of food processing systems
  • Food dehydration (impingement drying)
  • Extrusion
  • Deep-fat frying (vacuum frying)
  • Biomass pretreatment for bioenergy
  • Food irradiation (Monte Carlo & dose distribution).

Publications