Food Product Design

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Food Product Design

Overview

Course Date:
TBA
Registration Period:
TBA
Time:
TBA,
16 hours
Mode of Training:
Facilitated Learning (F2F)
Venue:
Singapore Polytechnic
Funding:
Eligible for SkillsFuture Credit

Today, consumers look for new experiences in the food they consume. Food technologists have to understand the market environment and unmask consumer insights before they embark on laboratory-based product development activities. This module is about the development of new product concepts.

Course Objective

This course aims to explore the business and technical perspectives for development of new product concepts.

Using the knowledge and skills learnt, participants will be able to identify a product development strategy and design product concepts, taking into consideration consumer needs & preferences through user empathy studies, generation of concepts from the identified needs, and maximise commercial viability through systematic planning of the product development process.

Innovativeness is expected to be infused in the strategy, concepts and plans and will be assessed.

Course Outline

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
1. Deduce commercial rationale if the new food product design is feasible to be launched.
2. Analyse market trends to determine direction for conceptualising improvements to the selected products
3. Highlight insights to user needs for selected commercial products
4. Propose innovative concepts to meet user needs
5. Apply experimental design principles to product formulation
6. Recommend ingredients and suppliers for the product conceptualised

Topics to be covered

1. Insights to user needs for selected commercial products
2. Innovative concepts to meet user needs
3. Experimental design principles
4. Ingredients and suppliers for the product conceptualised
5. Factors for scaling up of the conceptualised products

Minimum Requirements

Basic English Proficiency and Full-time Polytechnic Diploma / ITE Technical Diploma / ITE Technical Engineering Diploma / ITE Work-Learn Technical Diploma

Certification / Accreditation

• Certificate of Attendance (electronic Certificate will be issued)
A Certificate of Attendance will be awarded to participants who meet at least 75% attendance rate

• Certificate of Completion (electronic Certificate will be issued)
A Certificate of Completion will be awarded to participants who pass the assessment and meet at least 75% attendance rate

Suitable for

Assistant Food Technologist / Food Technologist / R&D Chef / Product Technologist / Innovation Manager

Course Fees

The course fees payable above are inclusive of 9% GST rate.

Applicants/Eligibility	SkillsFuture Funding	GST	Subsidised Fee (after GST)
Singapore Citizens aged 40 and above¹	$738.00	$22.14	$104.14
Singapore Citizens aged below 40	$574.00	$22.14	$268.14
Singapore Permanent Residents and LTVP+ Holders	$574.00	$22.14	$268.14
SME-sponsored Singapore Citizens, Permanent Residents and LTVP+ Holders²	$738.00	$22.14	$104.14
Others (Full fees payable)	$0.00	$73.80	$893.80

As per SSG’s policy, the GST payable for all funding-eligible applicants is calculated based on prevailing GST rate after baseline funding subsidy of 70%

Singaporeans aged 25 years and above may use **SkillsFuture Credit balance to offset respective course fees.

¹Under the SkillsFuture Mid-career Enhanced Subsidy. For more information, visit the SkillsFuture website here.
² Under the Enhanced Training Support for Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Scheme. For more information of the scheme, click here. To view SP’s list of similar funded courses, click here. Please submit the attached “Declaration Form for Enhanced Training Support Scheme for SME” together with your online application.

Funding Incentives

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