Program Overview

Program Overview

The program is designed to effectively prepare masters who can successfully engage in professional activities to ensure the market with high-quality and safe products. The program aims to develop specialists who can conduct consulting activities in the field of commodity research, expert activities in retail and wholesale trade, and other business areas.

Program Objectives

The main professional tasks that graduates of the program are prepared to solve include:

• Conducting various types of commodity expertise to confirm the authenticity, quality, and safety of products at all stages of commodity movement.
• Organizing the conduct of work on quality management of product design and services.
• Analyzing information to prepare and make optimal decisions on managing commodity systems.

Key Features

The program provides a complex of skills for developing scientifically grounded solutions for optimizing and managing commodity reserves, including monitoring their quality and safety at the stages of production, storage, and implementation. The program involves the study of practical skills for conducting expertise of food and non-food products in laboratories equipped with modern instrumentation, as well as participation in project activities in the professional sphere.

Profile Disciplines

• Identification and commodity expertise
• Sensory analysis
• Consulting in quality management of products
• Commodity research and expertise of products of functional purpose
• Quality and safety of products in the context of technical regulation
• Theory and methodology of designing new products
• Protection of consumer rights
• Economics of trade
• Commodity research and expertise of special-purpose products

Professions of Graduates

• Managers and specialists of quality, procurement, and supply departments of organizations
• Managers and specialists of consulting agencies
• Experts of expert organizations conducting commodity research
• Commodity researchers with specialization in food and non-food products
• Teachers of professional training, education, and additional professional education

Examples of Graduate Projects

• Development of a nomenclature of quality and safety indicators of innovative products (type of product by choice)
• Research of the impact of changes in the technological process on the consumer properties of the finished product (on the example of a specific type of product)
• Modeling of changes in consumer properties of products under various storage conditions (on the example of a specific product group)
• Improvement of identification methods to detect counterfeiting and establish the authenticity of products (on the example of a specific type of product)
• Development of a nomenclature of quality and safety indicators of products (on the example of products of a specific type)
• Impact of component composition on the quality and safety of products (on the example of products of a specific type)
• Management of the process of controlling and monitoring the quality of products at the enterprise (on the example of a specific enterprise)
• Forecasting the impact of raw materials on the formation of the quality of the finished product (on the example of a product of a certain type)

Significant Research Projects

• Development of technologies for commodity consulting and quality management of products and services
• Formation of the assortment policy of the company in modern conditions
• Formation of consumer properties of food products of functional purpose

Scientific Laboratories

• Laboratory of commodity research and expertise of consumer products of the Higher School of Service and Trade

Program Management

• Program Leader: Vinogradova Anna Vyacheslavovna
• Scientific Leader: Nilova Lyudmila Pavlovna