Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering has always been concerned with biological systems like crops, livestock and microbes. Expanding the discipline to include bioengineering concepts simply puts more emphasis on life sciences. Such an emphasis could lead to the creation of improved crops with higher yield, help meet the food-versus-fuel challenge, and make biological systems more effective at developing fuels. Biorenewables are the most prevalent application of bioengineering to agricultural and biosystems engineering. Ethanol and biodiesel production and plant modeling are engineering concepts with significant biological components.
Organisms are capable of some processes and reactions that can’t be simulated through industrial processes, like plants converting carbon dioxide to glucose during photosynthesis. Applying engineering principles could help design solutions to these technological constraints and maximize production and yield from crops, livestock and microbes.
Contact:
Tae Hyun Kim, Assistant Professor
515-294-7136
Email: thkim@iastate.edu
http://www.abe.iastate.edu/who-we-are/directory/tae-hyun-kim.html
Affiliated Faculty:
Raj Raman, Associate Professor
http://www.abe.iastate.edu/who-we-are/directory/d-raj-raman.html
