An interdisciplinary ph. D. may be pursued involving bioresource engineering and one or more graduate programs awarding the ph. For further information consult the graduate school, or a participating program. Research Facilities Rutgers has excellent facilities for both field and laboratory research. The program is located in an eleven-acre, predominantly wooded area on the campus of Rutgers' Cook College.
Open areas provide the opportunity to for conducting field experiments and projects.
Generous laboratory space includes environmentally controlled rooms, Computer-controlled greenhouses, machine vision and analytical facilities for examining the quality of plants, harvested crops and their storage parameters, and facilities for investigating waste disposal of agriculture residues. The flexible automation laboratory houses teaching and research purpose robots such as AdeptOne and SIR-1. A fully equipped machine shop operated by a full time staff provides all necessary support for fabricating and maintaining project-oriented apparatus. The Rutgers library system, with holdings of more than three million volumes, ranks among the top twenty-five university research libraries in the nation. The Department of Bioresource Engineering also maintains its own collections of books and journal subscriptions.