Biological Systems Engineering

Field of Study: Biological Systems Engineering is the application of engineering principles to biological and agricultural systems.  The mission of the Biological Systems Engineering Undergraduate Programs is to provide a technology-advanced, biology based engineering education that will enable students to design and implement efficient and environmentally sensitive methods of producing and processing food, fiber and renewable energy resources for and ever-increasing world population.  We are the original sustainable systems engineering discipline.  Biological Systems Engineering faculty and staff are dedicated to educating people to meet the engineering, management, technical sales, and service needs of the agriculture and food industry. We do this by advancing science through an active research program, teaching engineering students, and disseminating research findings through extension programs.

Possible Careers: Many students are unaware of Biological Engineering as a discipline, and may wonder what we do. Biological systems engineers design, manage, and develop systems and equipment that produce, package, process, and distribute the world’s food and fiber supplies.  Our students go on to careers in companies that supply machinery and buildings to food, feed, fiber and fuel production and processing systems, governmental organizations involved in environmental quality issues, environmental consulting firms and many other private and public sector jobs.