As an agricultural/biological engineering or bioengineering major, you’ll learn the skills of engineering as they relate to agriculture, food production, and resource conservation. For example, as a bioengineer, your interests might lie in working to create a breed of fatter, tastier tomatoes (non-attacking variety) or speeding up the fermentation of grape juice into wine.
These majors are not for the fainthearted; you’ll take advanced and difficult courses in many different subjects, including math, physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering. Laboratory work and computer science will also be big components of your studies. (A personal computer should be at the top of your list of Things To Buy For College.)
Students who graduate in these highly specialized fields often choose to continue their studies in graduate or medical school. Others go on immediately into the workforce and find that they are highly prized by government agencies, consulting firms, and monolithic corporations such as International Paper, Tyson Foods, Archer Daniels Midland, and Haliburton.
Animal Nutrition
Biology
Bioprocess and Biological Systems
Calculus and Analytic Geometry
Computer Science
Construction Technology
Differential Equations
Genetics
Grain Drying, Handling, and Storage
Hydraulics
Landscape Irrigation
Mechanics of Solids
Microbiology
Organic Chemistry
Physics
Statics and Dynamics
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