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Theses/dissertations from 2024 2024.

Precision Application of Water to Equine Racing Surfaces , Sydney Rae Cannon

Development of Fungal Hydrogels for 3D Bioprinting and Cellular Agriculture , Lauren E. Doyle

UTILIZING ISOTOPE TRACING TO ASSESS LAND USE IMPLICATIONS TO TAP AND STREAM WATER CHEMISTRY , Katrina Alexis McFadden

The efficacy of wetland treatment systems used to treat runoff mixtures from different landscapes across Kentucky , Emily Nottingham

VALORIZATION OF BOURBON DISTILLING WASTE USING THERMAL CONVERSION PROCESSES FOR NUTRIENT-RICH FOOD PRODUCTS , Tosin Olayemi Olanrewaju

PULSE-WIDTH MODULATION SPRAY SYSTEM PERFORMANCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL SYSTEM TO OPTIMIZE SPRAY USE EFFICACY , Prashanta Pokharel

Implications of Nanopesticides on Downstream Wetland Ecosystems , Kiley Power

WETLAND TREATMENT SYSTEMS FOR MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER AT A BOURBON DISTILLERY AND POTENTIAL VALUE OF INCORPORATING STILLAGE FOR WATER TREATMENT ENHANCEMENT , Katherine J. Ristola

The Characterization, Assessment, and Shear Strength of Turfgrass Soil in North American Thoroughbred Racing , Peter Schmitt

Development of Lignin Derived Hydrophobic Deep Eutectic Solvents as Sustainable Solvents and Their Applications , Yuxuan Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF AIR CLASSIFICATION AS A SULFUR MITIGATION TECHNOLOGY IN PINE RESIDUE FEEDSTOCKS , Ashlee Edmonson

IMPACT OF PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND DISTILLATION PARAMETERS ON THE BIOMETHANE POTENTIAL OF BOURBON STILLAGE , Danielle Hockensmith

APPLYING HERMETIC STORAGE AND MULTIPLE ABIOTIC-STRESSED GERMINATIONS TO ACTUATE DESIRABLE EFFECTS IN WHEAT PHYTOCHEMISTRY, FOOD, AND BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONALITIES , Bababode Kehinde

UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS FOR PRECISION METEOROLOGY: AN ANALYSIS OF GNSS POSITION MEASUREMENT ERROR AND EMBEDDED SENSOR DEVELOPMENT , Karla S. Ladino

A PROCESS INTENSIFICATION APPROACH TO IMPROVE VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS PRODUCTION, EXTRACTION, AND VALORIZATION , Can Liu

Densification of Hemp Floral Biomass Pre and Post-Extraction: Determination of Pellet Physical Characteristics , Gary Lopez

Improving Indoor Arenas for the Equine Industry , Staci McGill

Nanopesticide Influence on Nitrogen Cycling in Soils , Jacob Richardson

FATE AND TRANSPORT OF NANOPESTICIDES IN AGRICULTURAL FIELD PLOTS IN CENTRAL KENTUCKY , William D. Rud

Fate and Transport of Emerging Contaminants Entering, Leaving, and Flowing Past Wastewater Treatment Plants in Central Kentucky , Kyra Sigler

Microalgae Immobilization with Filamentous Fungi: Process Development for Sustainable Food Systems , Suvro Talukdar

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

The Response of Beef Cattle to Disturbances from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) , Gabriel Abdulai

EXPLORATION OF LIGNIN-BASED SUPERABSORBENT POLYMERS (HYDROGELS) FOR SOIL WATER MANAGEMENT AND AS A CARRIER FOR DELIVERING RHIZOBIUM SPP. , Toby Adjuik

Classifying and Mapping Aquatic Vegetation in Heterogeneous Stream Ecosystems Using Visible and Multispectral UAV Imagery , Rozalia Agioutanti

USING STREAM RESTORATION TO MITIGATE STORMWATER RUNOFF IN AN URBAN WATERSHED: A CASE STUDY , Jonathan M. Brantley

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Master of science in biological and agricultural engineering.

The Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering’s Master of Science degree is designed to develop new understanding through research and creativity. Students have the option to pursue a thesis or non-thesis Master of Science degree. Areas of specialization within the program include subject matter related to environmental and natural resources, food engineering, bioprocess engineering, biomaterials science, machine and energy systems, systems analysis along with food, feed and fiber processing.

The Master of Science thesis option degree requires students to complete advanced course work and to become skilled in research methodology. Students are expected to plan, conduct and analyze a comprehensive research project, and to report the findings in a thesis, a scholarly document of research conducted in accordance with accepted scientific methodology.

The Master of Science non-thesis option degree requires students to complete advanced coursework. Students are not required to complete a final comprehensive exam or report.

This program is offered in conjunction with the College of Engineering.

Steps to Fulfill a Masters Program

Program Requirements

• Student's Advisory Committee

Degree Plan

• Credit Requirements

Transfer of Credit

Limitations on the use of transfer, extension and certain other courses, thesis proposal, final examination/thesis defense, final examination grading, non-thesis option, student’s advisory committee.

The Master of Science in Biological and Agricultural Engineering  has a non-thesis track.  The student’s advisory committee for the non-thesis degree will consist of at least one member of the graduate faculty to be selected from the student's major department.

For the thesis track, after receiving admission to graduate studies and enrolling for coursework, the student will consult with the head of his or her major or administrative department (or intercollegiate faculty, if applicable) concerning appointment of the chair of his or her advisory committee. The student’s advisory committee for the MS degree will consist of no fewer than three members of the graduate faculty, representative of the student’s fields of study and research. The chair or the co-chair of the advisory committee must be from the student’s major department (or intercollegiate faculty, if applicable), and at least one or more of the members must have an appointment to a department other than the student’s major department. The outside member for students in an interdisciplinary program must have an appointment to a department different from the chair of the student’s committee.

The chair, in consultation with the student, will select the remainder of the advisory committee. The student will interview each prospective committee member to determine whether he or she is willing to serve. Only graduate faculty members located on Texas A&M University campuses may serve as chair of a student’s advisory committee. Other graduate faculty members located off campus may serve as a member or co-chair (but not chair) with a member as the chair. The chair of the committee, who usually has immediate supervision of the student’s research and thesis, has the responsibility for calling required meetings of the committee and for calling meetings at any other time considered desirable.

If the chair of a student’s advisory committee voluntarily leaves the University and the student is near completion of the degree and wants the chair to continue to serve in this role, the student is responsible for securing a current member of the University Graduate Faculty, from the student’s academic program and located near the Texas A&M University campus site, to serve as the co-chair of the committee. The Department Head or Chair of Intercollegiate faculty may request in writing to the Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate and Professional School that a faculty member who is on an approved leave of absence or has voluntarily separated from the university, be allowed to continue to serve in the role of chair of a student’s advisory committee without a co-chair for us to one year. The students should be near completion of the degree. Extensions beyond the one year period can be granted with additional approval of the Dean.

If the chair of the student’s advisory committee is unavailable for an extended time in any academic period during which the student is involved in activities relating to an internship, thesis or professional paper, and is registered for courses such as 684, 691, 692, or 693, the student may request, in writing, that the department head appoint an alternate advisory committee chair during the interim period.

The duties of the committee include responsibility for the proposed degree plan, the research proposal, the thesis and the final examination. In addition, the committee as a group and as individual members are responsible for advising the student on academic matters, and, in the case of academic deficiency, initiating recommendations to the Graduate and Professional School.

The committee members’ approval on the degree plan indicate their willingness to accept the responsibility for guiding and directing the entire academic program of the student and for initiating all academic actions concerning the student. Although individual committee members may be replaced by petition for valid reasons, a committee cannot resign  en masse.

The student’s advisory committee, in consultation with the student, will develop the proposed degree plan.  The degree plan must be completed and filed with the Graduate and Professional School prior to the deadline imposed by the student’s college or interdisciplinary degree program, if applicable, and no later than 90 days prior to the date of the final oral examination or thesis defense.

A student should submit the degree plan using the online  Document Processing Submission System .

A student submitting a proposed degree plan for a Master of Science degree should designate on the official degree plan the appropriate program option.

Additional coursework may be added to the approved degree plan by petition if it is deemed necessary by the advisory committee to correct deficiencies in the student’s academic preparation. No changes can be made to the degree plan once the student’s Request for Final Examination or Request for Final Examination Exemption is approved by the Graduate and Professional School.

Credit Requirement

A minimum of 30 semester credit hours is required for the Master of Science degree..

A student who has earned 12 hours of graduate credit in residence at Texas A&M University may be authorized to transfer courses in excess of the limits prescribed below upon the advice of the advisory committee and with the approval of the Graduate and Professional School . Courses taken in residence at an accredited U.S. institution or approved international institution with a final grade of B or greater may be considered for transfer credit if, at the time the courses were completed, the courses would be accepted for credit toward a similar degree for a student in degree-seeking status at the host institution. Otherwise, the limitations stated in the following section apply. Coursework  in which no formal grades are given or in which grades other than letter grades (A or B) are earned (for example, CR, P, S, U, H, etc.) is not accepted for transfer credit.  Courses appearing on the degree plan with grades of D, F or U may not be absolved by transfer work. Credit for thesis research or the equivalent is not transferable. Credit for coursework submitted for transfer from any college or university must be shown in semester credit hours or equated to semester credit hours. An official transcript from the university at which the transfer coursework was taken must be sent directly to the Office of Admissions.

Courses used toward a degree at another institution may not be applied for graduate credit. If the course to be transferred was taken prior to the conferral of a degree at the transfer institution, a letter from the registrar at that institution stating that the course was not applied for credit toward the degree must be submitted to the Graduate and Professional School.

Grades for courses completed at other institutions are not included in computing the GPA.

Some departments may have more restrictive requirements for transfer work. If otherwise acceptable, certain courses may be used toward meeting credit-hour requirements for the master’s degree under the following limitations.

• Graduate and/or upper-level undergraduate courses taken in residence at an accredited U.S. institution, or approved international institution with a final grade of B or greater will be considered for transfer credit if, at the time the courses were completed, the student was in degree-seeking status at Texas A&M University, or the student was in degree-seeking status at the institution at which the courses were taken; and if the courses would be accepted for credit toward a similar degree for a student in degree-seeking status at the host institution.
• Courses previously used for another degree are not acceptable for degree plan credit.
• The maximum number of credit hours taken in post-baccalaureate non-degree (G6) classification at Texas A&M University which may be considered for application to the degree plan is 12.
• A zero credit 684 or 685 course is only allowed for non-thesis option master's students. A zero credit 681 course can be used for either thesis or non-thesis option master’s students. Other courses, including 691 (Research) hours, are not eligible for zero credit.
• Not more than 6 hours in the combination of 691 (research), 684 (Professional Internship), or SOPH 680  may be used. Under normal circumstances, non-thesis masters students may not use 691 hours on their degree plan. However, for non-thesis masters students who are using 691 hours on the degree plan, see the Non-Thesis Option section on the Program Requirements page in the graduate catalog for the degree they are pursuing.
• Not more than 8 hours of 685 (Directed Studies) may be used.
• Not more than 3 hours of 690 (Theory of Research) may be used.
• Not more than 3 hours of 695 (Frontiers in Research) may be used.
• A maximum of 2 hours of 681 (Seminar).
• A maximum of 9 hours of advanced undergraduate courses (300- or 400-level).
• For graduate courses of three weeks’ duration or less, taken at other institutions, up to 1 hour of credit may be obtained for each five-day week of coursework. Each week of coursework must include at least 15 contact hours.
• Continuing education courses may not be used for graduate credit.
• Extension courses are not acceptable for credit.
• For non-distance degree programs, no more than 50 percent of the non-research coursework required for the program may be completed through distance education courses.
• To receive a graduate degree from Texas A&M University, students must earn one-third or more of the credits through the institution’s own direct instruction. This limitation also applies to joint degree programs.

Exceptions will be permitted only in unusual cases and when petitioned by the student’s advisory committee and approved by the Graduate and Professional School.

Thesis Option

An acceptable thesis is required for the Master of Science degree for a student who selects the thesis option program. The finished work must reflect a comprehensive understanding of the pertinent literature and express in clear English, the problem(s) for student, the method, significance, and results of the student’s original research. Thesis formatting must be acceptable to the Graduate and Professional School as outlined in the Guidelines for Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study.

After successful defense (or exemption) and approval by the student’s advisory committee and the head of the student’s major department (or chair of intercollegiate faculty, if appropriate), the student must submit the thesis in electronic format as a single PDF file to https://etd.tamu.edu/ . Additionally, a thesis approval form with original signatures must be received by the Graduate and Professional School through the Academic Requirements Completion System (ARCS). Both the PDF file and the completed approval form must be received by the deadline.

Deadline dates for submitting the thesis are announced each semester or summer term in the “Graduate and Professional School Calendar” (see Time Limit statement). These dates also can be accessed via the  Graduate and Professional School website .

Each student who submits a manuscript for review is assessed a one-time thesis/dissertation processing fee through Student Business Services. This processing fee is for the thesis/dissertation services provided. After commencement, theses and dissertations are digitally stored and made available through the Texas A&M Libraries.

A thesis that is deemed unacceptable by the Graduate and Professional School because of excessive corrections will be returned to the student’s department head (or chair of the intercollegiate faculty, if applicable) . The manuscript must be resubmitted as a new document, and the entire review process must begin again. All original submittal deadlines must be met during the resubmittal process to graduate.

For the thesis option Master of Science degree, the student must prepare a thesis proposal for approval by the advisory committee and the head of the major department or chair of the interdisciplinary faculty, if applicable. This proposal must be submitted to the Graduate and Professional School at least 20 working days prior to the submission of the request for the final examination.

Compliance issues must be addressed if a graduate student is performing research involving human subjects, animals, infectious biohazards and recombinant DNA. A student involved in these types of research should check with the Office of Research Compliance and Biosafety at (979) 458-1467 to address questions about all research compliance responsibilities. Additional information can also be obtained on the  Office of Research Compliance and Biosafety  website.

A student must pass a final examination by dates announced each semester or summer term in the Graduate and Professional School Calendar .  To be eligible to take the final examination, a student’s GPA must be  at least 3.000 for courses on the degree plan and for all courses completed at Texas A&M which are eligible to be applied to a graduate degree, and there must be no unabsolved grades of D, F or U for any course listed on the degree plan.  To absolve a deficient grade, the student must repeat the course at Texas A&M University and achieve a grade of C or better. All coursework on the degree plan must have been completed with the exception of those hours for which the student is registered. For thesis-option students, an approved thesis proposal must be on file in the Graduate and Professional School according to published deadlines prior to the final examination or submission of the request for exemption from the final examination.

A request to schedule the final examination must be submitted to the Graduate and Professional School via ARCS a minimum of 10 working days in advance of the scheduled date for the examination. The Graduate and Professional School will be notified via ARCS of any cancellations. A student may be given only one opportunity to repeat the final examination for the master’s degree and that must be within a time period that does not extend beyond the end of the next regular semester (Summer terms are excluded).

For thesis option students, the final examination covers the thesis and all work taken on the degree plan and at the option of the committee may be written or oral or both. The final examination may not be administered before the thesis is available to all members of the student’s advisory committee in substantially final form, and all members have had adequate time to review the document. The examination is conducted by the student’s advisory committee as finally constituted. A thesis option student must be registered at the University in the semester or summer term in which the final examination is taken. Persons other than members of the graduate faculty may, with mutual consent of the candidate and the major professor, attend final examinations for advanced degrees. Upon completion of the questioning of the candidate, all visitors must excuse themselves from the proceedings. A positive vote by all members of the graduate committee with at most one dissension is required to pass a student on his or her exam. A department, or interdisciplinary degree program, may have a stricter requirement provided there is consistency within all degree programs within a department or interdisciplinary degree program.

The student’s advisory committee will conduct this examination. The student’s department will promptly report the results of the Final Examination to the Graduate and Professional School via the Academic Requirements Completion System (ARCS) within 10 working days of completion of the final examination. If an approved committee member substitution (one only) has been made, their approval must be submitted to the Graduate and Professional School via ARCS.

If the program requires the advisory committee to include at least one external member – with an appointment to a department other than the student’s major department – and the substitution is for the sole external member of the advisory committee, then the substitute must also be external to the student’s major department. In extenuating circumstances, with approval of the Graduate and Professional School, an exception to this requirement may be granted.

A thesis option candidate may petition to be exempt from the final examination provided the degree plan GPA is 3.500 or greater and he/she has the approval of the advisory committee, the head of the student’s major department, or intercollegiate chair, if appropriate, and the Graduate and Professional School. It is required that the petition for exemption be submitted the same semester the student intends to submit the thesis.

The Final Examination is not required for the non-thesis option Master of Science in Biological and Agricultural Engineering.

A student pursuing the non-thesis option is not allowed to enroll in 691 (Research) for any reason and 691 may not be used for credit toward a non-thesis option Master of Science degree. A maximum of 4 credit hours of 684 (Professional Internship), 8 credit hours of 685 (Directed Studies), and up to 3 credit hours of 690 (Theory of Research) or 695 (Frontiers in Research) may be used toward the non-thesis option Master of Science degree. In addition, any combination of 684, 685, 690, and 695 may not exceed 25 percent of the total credit hour requirement shown on the individual degree plan. All requirements for the non-thesis option Master of Science degree other than those specified above are the same as for the thesis option degree.

The department head or the chair of an intercollegiate faculty (if appropriate) for the program may approve an exception for a PhD student who changes to a non-thesis option MS degree program after at least one year of PhD studies to use 691 credits toward a non-thesis option Master of Science degree. The department head or chair of an intercollegiate faculty (if appropriate) for the program may approve an exception for a master’s student who changes from a MS thesis option degree to a MS non-thesis option degree program to use 691 credits toward a non-thesis option Master of Science degree. In both cases, the student is allowed to use a maximum of 8 credit hours of 685 and 691 combined. Departments, Colleges, and Interdisciplinary Degree Programs may opt to establish higher standards. Further any combination of 684, 685, 690, 691, and 695 may not exceed 25 percent of the total credit hour requirement shown on the individual degree plan. All requirements for the non-thesis option Master of Science degree other than those specified above are the same as for the thesis option degree.

Additional Requirements

Continuous registration, foreign languages, application for degree.

In partial fulfillment of the residence requirement for the degree of Master of Science, the student must complete 9 resident credit hours during one regular semester or one 10-week summer semester in resident study at Texas A&M University. A minimum of 1 credit hour must be in a non-distance education delivery mode. Semesters during which the student is enrolled in all distance education coursework will not count toward fulfillment of the residence requirement.  Upon recommendation of the student’s advisory committee, department head or Chair of the Interdisciplinary Program, if appropriate, and with approval of the Graduate and Professional School, a student may be granted exemption from this requirement. Such a petition, however, must be approved prior to the student’s registration for the final 9 credit hours of required coursework.

Students who are employed full-time while completing their degree may fulfill total residence requirements by completion of less-than-full time course loads each semester. In order to be considered for this, students are required to submit a Petition for Waivers and Exceptions along with verification of their employment to the Graduate and Professional School.

See  Residence Requirements .

A student in the thesis option of the Master of Science program who has completed all coursework on his/her degree plan other than 691 (Research) is required to be in continuous registration until all requirements for the degree have been completed.

See  Continuous Registration Requirements .

All degree requirements must be completed within a period of seven consecutive years for the degree to be granted. A course will be considered valid until seven years after the end of the semester in which it is taken. Graduate credit for coursework which is more than seven calendar years old at the time of the final examination (oral or written) may not be used to satisfy degree requirements.

A student who has chosen the thesis option must have the final corrected copies of the thesis cleared by the Graduate and Professional School within one year of the semester in which the final exam is taken, or a final exam exemption petition was approved. Exams taken in between terms will expire at the end of the term that ended prior to the exam. For example, a final exam taken and passed during the Fall 2022 semester will expire at the end of the Fall 2023 semester. A final exam taken in the time between the Summer and Fall 2022 semesters will expire at the end of the Summer 2023 semester.

No specific language requirement exists for the Master of Science degree.

For information on applying for your degree, please visit the  Graduation  section.

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The Effects Of Household Size, Occupation And Income Level On Solid Waste Generation In Igbere, Bende L.G.A, Abia State:- Udemba, Peter J.

 Waste Management is an important element of environmental protection. Proper characterization of solid waste is fundamental for the planning of waste management services. This study...

Development, Thermal Analysis And Numerical Simulation Of Solar Dryers With Paraffin And Used Motor Oil As Thermal Storage Material

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Developed Wind-Powered Active Solar Dryer Integrated With Glycerin As Thermal Storage For Drying Sliced Potato.

An active mix-mode solar dryer powered by wind generator and a passive solar dryer both integrated with and without C 3 H 8 O 3 (glycerol) as thermal storage was designed, fabricated and...

Development And Performance Evaluation Of A Motorized Ginger Rhizomes Peeling Machine Using Quadri-Crank Mechanism

 A motorized ginger rhizome peeling machine was    designed, developed and its performance evaluated. Three moisture contents (69.55%, 75.4% and 80.38%), three feed...

Effects of municipal solid waste leachate on soil and water quality and modeling of leachate transport in soil

The study was carried out at Uyo Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) dumpsite to investigate the effects of MSW leachate on soil and water quality as well as modeling of leachate transport in soil...

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Ph.D. in Agricultural and Biological Engineering

As a Ph.D. candidate, you will gain a thorough and comprehensive knowledge of the professional field while becoming an expert in the methods of research. Admission to the program is limited to students who have demonstrated exceptional ability in obtaining their M.S. degree and/or through a high degree of technical and professional accomplishment.

The Ph.D. degree includes at least 32 hours of coursework and 32 hours of dissertation research. Candidates take a preliminary examination once they have completed the required coursework and prepared a research proposal. After the dissertation is completed, the student defends it in a final oral examination. Ph.D. graduates are typically employed in academia, governmental agencies, industry, or consulting firms. 

Graduate Teaching Experience

Experience in teaching is considered a vital part of the graduate program and is required as part of the academic work of all Ph.D. candidates in this program. For details of expectations, see the department's  Graduate Handbook .

Ting, K. C. "DEVELOPMENTAND PERSPECTIVES OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING TOWARDS BIOLOGICAL/BIOSYSTEMS ENGINEERING." Journal of Agricultural Engineering 41, no. 1 (March 31, 2010): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/jae.2010.1.1.

Francik, Sławomir, Adrian Knapczyk, Jarosław Frączek, and Zbigniew Ślipek. "ANALYSIS OF RESEARCH TRENDS IN AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING." ENVIRONMENT. TECHNOLOGIES. RESOURCES. Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference 2 (June 20, 2019): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/etr2019vol2.4169.

Sun, Da-Wen. "International Academy of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (iAABE): A New Instrument for Recognizing the Top Profession." Food and Bioprocess Technology 10, no. 6 (April 7, 2017): 981. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11947-017-1915-2.

Sun, Da-Wen. "International academy of agricultural and biosystems engineering (iAABE): a new instrument for recognizing the top profession." Paddy and Water Environment 15, no. 3 (March 2, 2017): 693–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10333-017-0586-y.

Sun, Da-Wen. "Erratum to: International academy of agricultural and biosystems engineering (iAABE): a new instrument for recognizing the top profession." Paddy and Water Environment 15, no. 3 (April 10, 2017): 695. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10333-017-0592-0.

de Boyer des Roches, Alice, Romain Lardy, Jacques Capdeville, Luc Mounier, and Isabelle Veissier. "Do International Commission of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (CIGR) dimension recommendations for loose housing of cows improve animal welfare?" Journal of Dairy Science 102, no. 11 (November 2019): 10235–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.3168/jds.2018-16154.

Ayuga, Francisco. "Present and future of the numerical methods in buildings and infrastructures areas of biosystems engineering." Journal of Agricultural Engineering 46, no. 1 (April 21, 2015): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/jae.2015.436.

Vidoni, Renato, Marco Bietresato, Alessandro Gasparetto, and Fabrizio Mazzetto. "Corrigendum to “Evaluation and stability comparison of different vehicle configurations for robotic agricultural operations on side-slopes” [Biosystems Engineering 129 (2015) 197–211]." Biosystems Engineering 136 (August 2015): 162–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2015.06.001.

Foppa-Pedretti, Ester, Giovanni Riva, Giuseppe Toscano, and Daniele Duca. "CONSIDERATIONS ON RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES AND THEIR RELATED PERSPECTIVES OFAGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING." Journal of Agricultural Engineering 41, no. 2 (June 30, 2010): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/jae.2010.2.35.

Dimitrijević, Dragan. "Theses for new strategies of development of textile and clothing industry: Part 1." Tekstilna industrija 68, no. 4 (2020): 65–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/tekstind2004065d.

Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering (Theses)"

Sherman, Adrian Tyrone. "Occurrence and distribution of fecal indicator bacteria with respect to urban and rural land uses." Click HERE to connect, 2009. http://digital.library.okstate.edu/etd/Sherman_okstate_0664M_10169.pdf.

Tejral, Ronald. "Impact of dam and reservoir parameters on peak breach discharge predictions for two models." Click HERE to connect, 2009. http://digital.library.okstate.edu/etd/Tejral_okstate_0664M_10170.pdf.

Bon, Tom A., and Henry L. Kucera. "Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Capstone Course Evolution at North Dakota State University." American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 2005. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/31010.

Valdivia, Lefort Patricio. "Design of an Efficient Harvester and Dewater Mechanism for Microalgae." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/306344.

Liu, Xiang. "Design of a Modified Shipping Container as Modular Unit for the Minimally Structured & Modular Vertical Farm." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/347073.

Kacheris, William, and William Kacheris. "A Novel Approach for Calculating the Feasibility of Urban Agriculture using an Enhanced Hydroponic System." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/620674.

Rodriguez, Jesus, and Jesus Rodriguez. "Downscaling Modis Evapotranspiration via Cokriging in Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District, Yuma, AZ." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621782.

Livingston, Peter. "Management of the Schmutzdecke Layer of a Slow Sand Filter." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/293439.

Liao, Yang. "Mixotrophic Cultivation Of The Microalga Scenedesmus obliquus With Reused Municipal Wastewater." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/332836.

He, Shiwei. "Hydrodynamic Optimization of the AirAccordion Photobioreactor for Microalgae Production." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/613515.

Books on the topic "Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering (Theses)"

Guevara-Gonzalez, Ramon, and Irineo Torres-Pacheco. Biosystems Engineering: Biofactories for Food Production in the Century XXI . Springer, 2014.

Guevara-Gonzalez, Ramon, and Irineo Torres-Pacheco. Biosystems Engineering: Biofactories for Food Production in the Century XXI . Springer, 2016.

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Agricultural and Bioresources Engineering

PHILOSOPHY AND OBJECTIVES OF THE DEPARTMENT The world’s population is expected to grow from 6 billion today to at least 8 billion by the year 2025. And most of this growth will take place in the developing world including Africa. It is therefore clear that expanding agricultural production in a sustainable manner will be crucial in responding to these challenges. Complex problems ranging from the development of sustainable systems for the production of food, fiber and renewable energy, to the scale-up of products of new discoveries in biology and biotechnology will require engineering solutions. These solutions must be developed in the context of globalization and the prevailing role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), while at the same time ensuring local relevance and the protection of the environment. This is aimed at producing 21st – century engineers that are well equipped to tackle these challenges in the context of the philosophy, “think globally; act locally”. The primary objectives are to train engineers who will function in one or more of the following roles towards national self-sufficiency: (i) To increase and sustain agricultural, aquacultural and/or forest production; (ii) To manage the natural resources such that a high level of production can be sustainable without damage to the environment; (iii) To maintain or change the natural characteristics of food and biomaterials for suitable purposes; (iv) To remove or reduce the physical drudgery in production operations, and; (v) To provide desirable amenities for communities of producers, usually rural.

BRIEF HISTORY OF AGRICULTURAL & BIORESOURCES ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT Establishment and Initial Development Established in 1962, UNN Department of Agricultural Engineering is the oldest in Nigeria. Started and developed by academic personnel from Michigan State University (M.S.U), the Department benefited from the best of the land grant philosophy of many of the bigger and better known American Universities, a philosophy that found optimum expression in their Faculties of Agriculture. So, at the beginning under the Headship of Professor J.O Boyed, the Department together with the Department of Agricultural Mechanization was based in the Faculty of Agriculture for administrative purposes while, at the same time, it was based in the Faculty of Engineering for its academic regulation and administration. As a result of this arrangement, the Department was very well equipped as it had free use of direct responsibility for maintenance and repair of all the agricultural machinery and equipment in the Farm Operations Unit of the Faculty of Agriculture. To facilitate the discharge of that responsibility the Department was provided with a very well equipped Fabrication Workshop, a Carpentry/Farm Structures Workshop and a Farm Power and Machinery Workshop in the Farm Operations Centre. Similarly, with the first two years of the five-year programme being the same for all the Departments of the Faculty of Engineering, students of Agricultural Engineering Department took the foundation engineering courses and the workshop technology courses in well furnished mechanical engineering workshops, civil engineering workshops/laboratories and electrical engineering workshops/laboratories.

The Department therefore, had a very solid foundation and, until 1966 enjoyed steady growth and development under the combined efforts of the MSU team and the Dutch-Technical-Aid academic personnel, headed from 1964 by Dr. B.F. Cargill (Late) of MSU. All the seven or eight academic staff at that time were expatriates the first Nigerian academic staff, an assistant lecturer, was employed in October, 1966. At that time, three other Nigerians were away in U.S.A. doing their M.Sc. /Ph.D. degree work as staff-in-training.

The department produced its first set of Agricultural engineering graduates literally on the eve of the Nigerian civil war in 1967. The expatriate staff had been compelled to leave some days before the graduation ceremony when the situation in the country had worsened to a point where the expatriates felt threatened. In fact the graduation ceremony for the first indigenously trained Nigerian agricultural engineers took place at night and was the last official public event of the University at UNN before the civil war erupted.

Post Civil War Era At the end of the hostilities in 1970, it was heartbreaking to observe that all the previously accumulated teaching and research equipment in the different laboratories and workshops had been completely ruined; the carcasses of some are still there as sad reminders. The department with the rest of the University had to pick up bits and pieces from the ruins and devastation of the three-year civil war. Of course, the expatriate staff did not return. But undaunted, the Department struggled to re-establish itself and succeeded admirably in doing so.

For logistic and other reasons, the Agricultural Mechanization Programme was discontinued in 1970. Agricultural Engineering Department came to be based wholly in Faculty of Engineering, administratively, academically and physically. But the department retained its facilities in the Farm Operations Centre. It has also retained the good relationship with the Faculty of Agriculture such that use of the machinery, equipment and facilities of the Farm Operations Centre are readily made available for its teaching/research uses as needed.

The Department has continued to produce graduate agricultural engineers every year since 1970. Agricultural engineers trained in the Department are found in every sizeable establishment in Nigeria that needs the services of agricultural engineers – Ministries of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Institutes, private and publicly owned food companies and agro-industries, agricultural machinery sales and services companies, the National Centre for Agricultural Mechanization, Universities, Polytechnics, etc. In fact, our graduates are today playing leadership roles in many of these establishments. There are few Agricultural Engineering Departments in the country which do not have our graduates as members of their academic staff. Fourteen out of the currently seventeen members of the Department’s own academic staff are graduates of the Department at either B.Eng or M.Eng level, or both.

The undergraduate student enrolment of the Department has varied between 180 and 200 in recent years. The objective is to stabilize at a population of 250, i.e. 50 students per year of study, on the average.

Scope The Department offers a 5-year B.Eng degree programme designed to give students a firm foundation in the discipline. In the first two years of the programme, study concentrates on the engineering sciences common to all engineering disciplines. From the third year onwards, discipline specialization courses are introduced. This finally leads to students, in the final year of the programme, taking courses with emphasis on one of the following options: (i) Power Systems, Machinery and Forest Engineering (ii) Soil, Water Resources and Aquacultural Engineering (iii) Food and Bioprocess Engineering (iv) Structures and Environmental Quality Engineering

Entry Requirements Candidates who have passed the W.A.S.C. (with credit) or General Certificate of Education G.C.E.(Ordinary Level) or Senior School Certificate Examinations in 5 credits including Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and English Language in not more than two sittings may be admitted into the five-year programme through the U.M.E. entrance requirements. Applicants who have passed the Higher School Certificate (H.S.C.) (Principal Level) or G.C.E. (Advanced Level) in Physics and Mathematics, with Chemistry (at Ordinary or Advanced Level) in addition to other University minimum entry requirements, may be admitted into the four-year programme as direct entry students.

The Curriculum Stress Areas Code Basic/Introductory

0 Power Systems, Machinery and Forest Engineering

1 Soil, Water Resources and Aquacultural Engineering 2 Food and Bioprocess Engineering 3 Structures and Environmental Quality Engineering 4 Computers and Information Technology 5 Seminar and Special Problems 6 Project 7

Service Courses The Department offers service courses to the Faculty of Agriculture students in the 3rd and 4th year and to the students of Faculty of Engineering in the 1st year.

GRADUATE DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Scope The M.Eng and Ph.D degree programmes of the Department of Agricultural and Bioresources Engineering are guided by the awareness that the achievement of self-reliance in Nigeria agricultural and rural development depends largely on the effective development of the indigenous agro-technological manpower and resources. This is more so when it is realized that the stimulation of the agricultural sector of the national economy had always been accorded high priority in the past and present development plans in Nigeria.

The postgraduate programmes of the Department are therefore a conscious attempt by the Department to discharge its educational and professional responsibility of the nation in its efforts to revive the agricultural sector. The programmes are to fulfill this role by furthering the effective application of appropriate engineering principles and technology to the Nigerian agriculture. The postgraduate programmes of the Department are highly technical in content, practical in their orientation and dynamic in perspective.

The objective of the programmes therefore include the training of productive and technological manpower and highly trained professionals, to execute the production phase of agriculture; the production of field and research equipment suitable for local applications; the conduct of pure and applied research required for accelerating the growth of the agricultural sector; and to participate in the training of agricultural engineers, technologists and technicians for Nigeria Universities; Colleges of Technology and Schools of Agriculture.

The graduate courses cover all areas of Agricultural and Bioresources Engineering: Farm Power Units; Field Equipments and farmstead Units; Irrigation; Drainage; Erosion Control and Utilization of Water Resources; Food Product processing; Storage; Packaging and Handling; Farm Structures; Livestock and Environment; Electrical and Solar Energy Utilization and Computer Technologies in Agriculture.

The study for the degree of M.Eng in Agricultural Engineering is done by course work with research work to be presented in a project report. The study for the Ph.D degree is by a comprehensive research to be embodied in a thesis. The M.Eng and Ph.D students may specialize in any of the following areas: Power Systems and Machinery: Soil and Water Engineering; Agricultural Products Processing and Storage; or Farm Structures and Environmental Control.

Successful graduate students are well equipped with sufficient background and training to enable them to go into the ministries of agriculture, food and agro-industries machinery companies; Research institutes and universities; internationally aided agricultural projects requiring indigenous agricultural engineers with sufficient knowledge of local conditions.

Entry Requirement Master of Engineering Degree (M.Eng) Applicants must possess B.Sc or B.Eng degree with at least a second class honours of minimum GPA of 2.5 on a 5-point scale, or an equivalent qualification, in Agricultural and Bioresources Engineering or a related field of Engineering to qualify for admission into the M.Eng programme.

Doctor of Philosophy Degree (Ph.D) Candidates must possess M.Sc or M.Eng degree with a GPA not less than 3.5 on a 5-point scale from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Applicants who already possess a master degree at the same level of pass from recognized institutions may be considered for entry to the Ph.D programme.

Mode of Study Master of Engineering Degree (M.Eng) The M.Eng programme is by course work to be examined in written papers together with research work to be presented in a project report, where course work predominates over research and constitutes not less than two thirds of the total credit hours.

Doctor of Philosophy Degree (Ph.D) The Ph.D degree programme is usually prosecuted by comprehensive research to be embodied in a thesis. No credit hour is assigned to the PhD programme. Candidates are required to present at least two seminars.

Duration Masters programme Full Time: A minimum of 3 semesters A maximum of 6 semesters Part Time: A minimum of 4 semesters A maximum of 8 semesters

Ph.D programme Full Time: A minimum of 4 semesters A maximum of 10 semesters Part Time: A minimum of 6 semesters A maximum of 14 semesters

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Graduates can find employment in the following institutions, companies and industries: i. Government - Federal and state Ministries/Departments of Agriculture, Fisheries, Environment, Energy, Mines, Natural Resources (Land and Water), Rural Development, Science and Technology, town/LGA engineering divisions: ii. Engineering consulting firms; iii. Companies – Food processing, irrigation and drainage design and component manufacturing, farm machinery engineering component sales, chemical/fertilizer/feed, tyre manufacturers; iv. Educational – Teaching/lecturing/research – universities, polytechnics, colleges of science/technology/agriculture, research and training institutes and centers; v. Financial institutions – Banks and Agricultural credit institutions; vi. Industries – Fisheries, surface/subsurface survey, biotechnology firms, greenhouse and horticultural, solar energy technology and other renewable energy industries; goods manufacturing for water pollution control, air pollution control, solid waste management, measuring and monitoring instrumentation, scientific/research/laboratory equipment and chemicals; vii. Services provision sector – Waste handling and environmental facility operation, environmental pollution/impact assessment, laboratory related field services, facilities design for natural resources conservation and protection, and for aquacultural and forest production.

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