Ag Engineering Offered jointly by the Colleges of Agricultural Sciences and Engineering, agricultural engineering covers issues in food engineering, power and machinery, resource management, and structures as well as related environmental systems.
Graduates are engineers who accept positions in design, development, research, and consulting.
The curriculum provides thorough training in mathematics, physics, and engineering sciences common to all engineering disciplines. Students may elect the general option, which provides training in engineering applications to biological and agricultural systems, or the food engineering option, which focuses the training in engineering applications to the food industry. Agricultural engineering graduates enter careers in design, development, testing, research, management, applications, and technical sales. They are employed by agriculturally related industries, consulting firms, service organizations, and governmental agencies. Agricultural engineers are uniquely qualified to cope with the various engineering aspects of food production and processing within the constraints of environmental protection and natural resource conservation.