Courses

Our students take many courses from other departments for program development. The Institute of Technology offers students a broad range of high-quality courses that provide in-depth study and program development in engineering.

Courses in our department carrying graduate credit

BBE 4013 Transport in Biological Systems

Application of thermodynamics, fluid flow, heat and mass transfer to design problems involving biological processes and materials at the cellular, organism and system level. Agricultural, environmental, food and bioprocess applications.

BBE 4023 Instrumentation and Control for Biological Systems

Measurement of motion, force, pressure, flow, temperature, size, shape, color, texture, rheology, moisture, water mobility, fat, pH, etc. Linking physical and biological control systems.

BBE 4313 Design of Machine Systems

In-depth study of the design of machinery systems. Various case studies of machines/processes will be used. Students will cover design for world markets, crop production (tractors, harvesters, implements), food and crop processing systems (pumping, conveying), and animal systems (milking parlor design, waste handling machines).

BBE 4323 Machinery Elements

Basic machinery components. Building blocks for machines used in crop production and food processing. Power from diesel engines, electric & hydraulic motors, performance characteristics, efficiency. Machine control systems modeling (electro-hydraulic), machinery hydraulic circuit design, safety.

BBE 4523 Water Management Engineering

Applying engineering principles to management of water for production and environmental protection in agricultural systems. Designing facilities to irrigate and drain croplands and enhance water quality.

BBE 4533 Agricultural Waste Management Engineering

Sources and characteristics of agricultural wastes including livestock, food processing, and domestic wastes. Physical, biological, chemical, rheological and microbiological properties. Effects on the environment. Collection, storage, treatment (aerobic and anaerobic) and utilization/disposal. Land application.

BBE 4713 Bioprocess Engineering

Fermentation and separation as applied to biological systems, product recovery in bioproduct technology, topics in bioremediation, and modeling of separation processes in biological systems.

BBE 4723 Food Process Engineering

Application of principles of heat transfer and fluid flow to the design of various food processing operations such as thermal and aseptic processing, freezing, pumping, drying, evaporation, and extrusion. Marketing and government regulation, nutrition issues etc.

BBE 5513 Watershed Engineering

Application of engineering principles to the management of surface runoff from agricultural, range and urban watersheds. Design of facilities and selection of land use practices for the control of surface runoff to mitigate problems of flooding and the degradation surface-water quality.

BBE 8001 Seminar

Presentation and discussions on current research topics, research philosophy and principles, proposal writing, and professional presentations.

BBE 8005 Supervised Classroom or Extension Teaching Experience

Classroom or extension teaching experience in one of the following five departments: Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Agronomy and Plant Genetics, Horticultural Science, Soil, Water and Climate, or Plant Pathology. Participation in discussions about effective teaching to strengthen skills and develop a personal teaching philosophy.

BBE 8013 Parameter Estimation in Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering

Procedures for estimating parameter values and parameter uncertainty from experimental data. Values and interpretation of linear and nonlinear models using ordinary and weighted least-square methods. Design of experiments. Application to biosystems and agricultural engineering problems.

BBE 8303 Machinery Modeling

Machinery systems modeling using multibody dynamics simulation software (MDS). Students review models in the literature and report on the limitations of the modeling approaches. Models developed in the student's interest area.

BBE 8513 Hydrologic Modeling of Small Watersheds

Study and representation of hydrologic processes by mathematical models: stochastic meteorological variables, infiltration, overland flow, return flow, evapotranspiration, and channel flows. Approaches for model calibration and evaluation .

BBE 8523 Coupled Heat, Moisture, and Chemical Transport in Porous Media

Mathematical study of coupled heat, moisture and chemical transport in porous media. Derivation of governing equations for coupled heat, moisture and chemical transport. Derivation of numerical solution techniques to solve coupled equations. Comparison of numerical solutions to analytical solutions.

BBE 8703 Managing Water in Food and Biological Systems

Qualitative and quantitative analysis of water in foods and biological materials using NMR and MRI. Water and chemical reactivity, microbial activity, physiochemical properties and changes, and structural properties and changes in foods and biological materials.