These activities encompass production, processing, marketing and distribution of food, fiber and other biological products, with full consideration of environmental quality and resource sustainability. The defining activity of engineering is design. Engineering extensively employs analysis and science, but it employs them as a means to an end of producing something new. Engineers not only integrate analysis with synthesis, but also must do so within the constraints of time and money. They must reckon with other concerns such as health, safety, and environmental impact and political and social setting factors.
Engineering is different from science.
In other words, synthesis, not analysis, is the aim of engineering. Preparing for a Career Challenging careers in engineering of food, agricultural, and biological systems require an education that is unique to the food, agricultural, and biological engineer. An understanding of the scope and range of problems encountered in the food, agricultural and biological industries and related environmental areas. An ability to synthesize the information and apply it to design and problem solving. Potential employers include equipment manufacturers for the farm, forestry, construction, transportation, lawn, garden and recreational markets and their distributors.