Course Title

 Optimization Methods in Food Science

Course Code

 FE 506

Type of Course

 elective

Level of Course

 postgraduate

Pre-requisite

 FE 536

ECTS Credites

 10

Name of Lecturer

 Figen TOKATLI

Course Content

 Two-Level Factorial Designs

 Two-Level Fractional Factorial Designs

 Process Improvement with Steepest Ascent

 The Analysis of Second-Order Response Surfaces

 Experimental Designs for Fitting Response Surfaces

 Blocking in Response Surface Designs

 Robust Parameter Design and Process Robustness Studies.

 Experiments with Mixtures and Analysis techniques

 Continuous Process Improvement with Evolutionary Operation

Bibliography

Box, George E. P. & Norman R. Draper. (1987). Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces.New York: Wiley.

Myers, Raymond H. & Montgomery, Douglas C. (2002). Response Surface Methodology: Proces and Product Optimization Using Designed Experiments. 2nd Ed. New York: Wiley.