Engineering or Technology? Pick Your Educational Direction.

Engineering

The Biological and Agricultural engineering program provides an opportunity to apply the principles of analysis, synthesis, and design to challenges associated with living systems such as microbes, plants, animals, humans and their respective environments.

Design and manage systems that achieve:

• Resource conservation and reuse
• Environmental quality enhancement
• Hazardous waste remediation and bioremediation
• Municipal/industrial waste remediation

Solve technological problems related to:

• Water resource availability and conservation
• Water quality evaluation and management
• Soil erosion and conservation practices
• Irrigation system design and management
• Water and contaminant transport through soils
• Hydraulic design and analysis

Design systems and solve problems related to:

• Biotechnology
• Biosensors
• Biological materials
• Molecular Biology and Engineering

Program can be designed for pre-med and pre-biomedical.

Design equipment and systems for:

• Food processing industries
• Emerging industries in bioprocess technology including bioenergy and biofuels such as the ethanol and biodiesel industries

Design equipment and systems for:

• Food, feed and fiber production
• Ag product handling and transportation
• Efficient use of natural resources

All five options integrate applied biology into the fundamental principles of engineering for the purpose of designing processes and systems that influence, control or utilize biological materials and organisms to benefit humanity.

Technology

The Agricultural Systems Management program emphasizes engineering technology and the management of physical and biological systems for agricultural production, handling and processing of agricultural commodities, maintaining environmental quality and farm and ranch operations.

Traditional Agricultural Systems Management program that provides background in:

• Systems technology
• Agricultural equipment
• Engines and power units
• Agricultural processing
• Soil and water principles

Apply biological, physical and business knowledge to computing and management problems in:

• Agricultural production service
• Global Information Systems-GIS
• Marketing
• Computer applications and programming

Biological, physical, and business knowledge required for work in:

• Irrigation and water system management
• Water and waste water operations
• Manage agricultural and processing waste streams, odor control and other agricultural environmental issues

Apply equipment and systems knowledge related to:

• Precision agriculture
• Agricultural safety and health
• Engineering materials
• Fundamental thermal and fluid principles
• Knowledge of machinery design technology

All four options are based on understanding of basic and applied sciences such as chemistry, biology and physics and may be applied to corporate and private farm-oriented industry or farm and ranch management.

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