The materials of the article consider the possibilities for determining the educational goals of university students in order to further develop the discipline for the development of complex projects. When writing the article, the experience of teaching the disciplines "General technologies of food production" and "Food chemistry" at the National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute" at the Department of Integrated Technologies, Processes and Devices in 2002–2022 was used. Complex systems for determining the components of the discipline determined competence and quality material, and the issues under consideration are overlooked through the prism of one's own creative perception, which makes the material especially valuable. Developments are carried out using modern highly effective science-based processes and devices of food production, for example, from types of classification-identification analysis, general concepts and requirements for types of modern food technologies to the selection of calculation algorithms at various stages of production and application. Examples and some features of possible training solutions are presented, which are based on experimental data of the development of identification-classification mechanisms of modern food technologies, processes and devices, their scientific justification in the form of intellectual property objects.