Professor Ma Haile's book "Food Engineering Bionics" was officially published by China Light Industry Press in November 2023. The book was funded by the "14th Five-Year Plan" National Key Publications Publishing Planning project and the National Science and Technology Academic Works Publishing Fund project. It is also used as a key textbook for colleges and universities in Jiangsu Province.

As early as 1989, Professor Ma Haile published a paper, "On the Microtype of Food Engineering bionics," in the "International Symposium on Agricultural Engineering" (89-ISAE), where he first proposed the idea of establishing "food engineering bionics". The publication of this book embodies the core achievements of the author's more than 30 years of persistent research and practice on the application of bionics in food engineering technology innovation. Professor Masystematically discusses the concepts of "food engineering bionics", including its key characteristics in the definition, the composition framework, and research methodology. The author invites Professor Chen Jian, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and former president of Jiangnan University, to give a preface to the book. Professor Chen believes that the original intention of establishing "food engineering bionics" lies in what we can learn from nature and whether we can find the golden key to promote the food industry to be a more efficient, safe, energy-saving, and low-carbon development trend. The greater significance is that it will inspire life scientists to re-examine the existing research results on life activities, promoting future research into life activities that have important value in food manufacturing.

For the dual requirements of scientific and technological innovation and personnel training, Professor Ma Haile has long dedicated to the interdisciplinary integration research of "food +". In addition to proposing "food engineering bionics" at the intersection of food and life science, he also deeply explored  and proposed the concept of "food physical processing" for the first time and initiated the "Jinshan Food Physical Processing Seminar" in 2014. In 2023, the international journal Food Physics was founded, promoting  "food color chemistry" innovatively for the first time at home and abroad, and  "Food Color Chemistry" was published in 2020. Attaching great importance to the integration of food and machinery, the undergraduate textbook "Food Machinery and Equipment" latest edition is a national planning textbook approved by the Ministry of Education. The undergraduate course "Food processing machinery and equipment" led by the Ministry of Education is rated as the "Eleventh Five-Year" national quality course, the "Twelfth Five-Year" first batch of national quality resource sharing courses, and the "thirteenth Five-Year" first batch of national first-class undergraduate courses.

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