Biological and Agricultural Engineering
(BAE)
Course Work Requirements
M.S. and Ph.D. in Biological and Agricultural Engineering
M.S. in Engineering and Ph.D. in Engineering Science
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Biological & Agricultural Engineering Requirements
M.S. Program:
BSYSE 512 -- Research and Teaching Methods
BSYSE 541 -- Instrumentation and MeasurementsPh.D. Program:
BSYSE 512 -- Research and Teaching Methods
BSYSE 541 -- Instrumentation and Measurements
STAT 512 -- Analysis of Variance of Designed ExperimentsThree credits of mathematics beyond Differential Equations. You may choose from:
MATH 540 -- Applied Mathematics I
MATH 548 -- Numerical Analysis
(Or other courses approved by your advisor)
Land and Water Engineering Requirements
Core Courses:
M.S. students can choose two from the three core courses while
Ph.D. students must take all three courses.BSYSE 556 -- Surface Hydrologic Processes and Modeling
BSYSE 5XX -- Nutrient Cycling and Transport (in preparation)
BSYSE 595 -- Ground-water Flow and Contaminant TransporSuggested Elective Courses:
BSYSE 555 -- Natural Systems for Wastewater Treatment
BSYSE 557 -- Watershed Modeling and Managemen
BSYSE 562 -- Cropping Systems Modeling (To be revised)SOILS 513 -- Soil Physics
SOILS 514 -- Environmental Biophysics
SOILS 515 -- Environmental Biophysics Laboratory
SOILS 521 -- Environmental Soil Chemistry
SOILS 523 -- Advanced Vadose Zone HydrologyCE 517 -- Mechanics of Sediment Transport
CE 518 -- Hazardous Waste Engineering
CE 527 -- Advanced Soil Mechanics
CE 551 -- Open Channel Flow
CE 552 -- Advanced Topics in Hydraulic Engineering
CE 571 -- MeteorologyGEOL 569 -- Hydrogeology Methods (with lab)
GEOL 579 -- Groundwater Geochemistry
GEOL 584 -- Stable Isotope GeochemistryME 521 -- Fundamentals of Fluids I
ME 522 -- Fundamentals of Fluids II
Food Engineering Requirements
Core Courses:
M.S. Program:
BSYSE 581 -- Advanced Physical Properties of Foods
BSYSE 582 -- Food Process Engineering Design
BSYSE 584 -- Thermal Processing of FoodsPh.D. Program:
M.S. required courses plus two courses from the following list:
BSYSE 583 -- Food Separation Processes Design
BSYSE 586 -- Food Rheology
BSYSE 588 -- Food Powders
BSYSE 587 -- Food Plant Design(Or other approved food engineering graduate courses)
Elective Courses:
MS food engineering students should take at least seven credits and
Ph.D. students should take at least nine credits from the following list:FSHN 416 -- Food Microbiology
FSHN 417 -- Food Microbiology Laboratory
FSHN 460 -- Food Chemistry
FSHN 462 -- Food Analyses
FSHN 470 -- Advanced Food Processing TechnologiesME 404 -- Heat Transfer
ME 513 -- Conduction Heat Transfer
ME 514 -- Thermal Radiation Processes
ME 515 -- Advanced Heat Transfer
ME 521 -- Fundamentals of Fluids I
ME 522 -- Fundamentals of Fluids IIEE 517 -- Numerical Solutions to EM problems
EE 518 -- Advanced Electromagnetic Theory I
EE 538 -- EM Simulation
CE 534 -- Finite Elements
CE 556 -- Numeric Modeling in Fluid Mechanics
ChE 441 -- Process Control
ChE 510 -- Transport Processes
And other approved graduate level courses offered in the CEA
Environmental Engineering Requirements
Core Courses:
M.S. students can choose two from the three core courses while
Ph.D. students must take all five courses.BSYSE 556 -- Surface Hydrologic Processes and Modeling
BSYSE 5XX -- Nutrient Cycling and Transport (in preparation)
BSYSE 555 -- Natural Systems for Wastewater TreatmentCE 541 -- Environmental Engineering Unit Operations
CE 542 -- Environmental Engineering Unit ProcessesSuggested Elective Courses
BSYSE 595 -- Ground-water Flow and Contaminant Transport
BSYSE 557 -- Watershed Modeling and ManagementCE 515 -- Environment Measurements
CE 517 -- Mechanics of Sediment Transport
CE 518 -- Hazardous Waste Engineering
CE 519 -- Hazardous Water Treatment
CE 547 -- Principles of Environmental Engineering
CE 571 -- MeteorologySOILS 514 -- Environmental Biophysics
SOILS 515 -- Environmental Biophysics Laboratory
SOILS 521 -- Environmental Soil Chemistry
Biomass Processing and Bioproduct Engineering Requirements
Core Courses:
Required for M.S. and Ph.D. students.
BSYSE 594 -- Advanced Topics in Bioprocessing and Biotreatment
BSYSE 5XX -- Biorefinery Process Analysis and Design
BSYSE 5XX -- Biochemical, Biofuel and BioenergySuggested Elective Courses
BSYSE 583 -- Food Separation Process Design
ChE 529 -- Chemical Engineering Kinetics
ChE 541 -- Chemical Engineering Analysis
ChE 546 -- Mass Transfer Operations
ChE 552 -- Process Optimization
ChE 560 -- Biochemical Engineering
ChE 575 -- Introduction to Biochemical EngineeringMBIOS 503 -- Molecular Biology I
MBIOS 503 -- Molecular Biology II
MBIOS 506 -- Molecular Techniques in Microbiology
MBIOS 513 -- General Biochemistry I
MBIOS 513 -- General Biochemistry II
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