How is food technology better than mechanical engineering?

Thanks for the A2A. It's funny you ask this, as I entered college with the plan to study mechanical engineering but switched to food science and technology. read more

Food technology, when being compared directly to mechanical engineering, is the development and design of food production lines and things like that. I'm not so much into that side of the field, but I would say it focuses on the specifics of food processing steps and machinery. read more

Mechanical engineering, no question, from the purely engineering perspective. As a degreed ME, I have consistently observed, during my 35+ year career, that the ME is much better grounded in the theory behind engineering than the Industrual Engineer (IE). read more

Mechanical Engineering is a vast field, and in a way is the parent discipline of Industrial Engineering and Management. Earlier, there was no separate course for IEM. Instead, one did BE in Mech, and thereafter one did ME in IEM. read more