Students learn to apply engineering solutions to biological and other natural systems.
Graduate study prepares students for challenging professional careers involving practice and research that uses orderly engineering approaches to study highly variable systems of living organisms. The broad-based graduate program is designed for engineering graduates from a variety of disciplines, such as biological resources, civil, mechanical, electrical, biomedical, chemical, and agricultural engineering. Exceptional graduates of nonengineering programs, especially those with biological and physical sciences or natural resources backgrounds, can be admitted into the Biological Resources Engineering graduate program. These latter students must, however, complete a prescribed set of basic engineering science and design courses that qualifies them as graduates from an engineering program.