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Why Biosystems Engineering?
Thinking
about which career will be right for you? If you enjoy math
and science, consider majoring in Biosystems
Engineering. Biosystems engineers help to provide two
important resources to the world's population - food and
fiber. This career is for people who like to solve problems,
and who are excited about working in a global economy. As
the world's population grows, biosystems engineers face many
challenges:
- Designing
equipment and practices to produce safe, high-quality food
without endangering people and other living beings
- Improving
people's quality of life while protecting the
environment
- Converting
waste materials into valuable resources
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in water samples
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As
a biosystems engineer, you will be helping to solve these problems by developing and designing:
- Management practices that minimize soil erosion and conserve
our precious water resources
- Cleaner, more efficient construction and agricultural
equipment
- Biological waste treatment systems
- Instrumentation and sensor systems that interface with the
Global Positioning System satellites to maximize production
efficiency
- Safer agricultural machinery with lower environmental impact
- Improved food processing systems
- Biological and "smart" sensors that
"learn" as they are used
Our coursework integrates a wide variety of fundamental engineering concepts
including engineering graphics, analysis, design, and
economics. As a graduate from The University of Tennessee's
program in biosystems engineering, you'll be able to choose from a
diverse selection of employment opportunities. You will be
well prepared to lead a team as a project engineer. You
could also choose to design products and processes that will
improve the efficiency and quality of food production while
keeping our environment safe.
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Other
areas of interest that you might consider are marketing and public
service. As a biosystems engineer, you will find that your
services are in high demand in these areas. You may also
want to enhance your career by entering graduate school for
advanced training in engineering. Or, perhaps you would like
to attend medical school with the solid foundation you have
received in biological systems.
Some recent employers of biosystems engineers include the
following:
For more information about what biosystems engineers do and the
skills you need to be successful, visit our
professional society, The
Society for Engineering in Agricultural, Food, and Biological Systems (ASABE).
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