Graduate Credit Courses in Agricultural and Biological Engineering (ABE)
The following senior- and graduate-level courses are offered by the ABE Department and may be used to fulfill a portion of a student's Graduate Program degree course requirements.
Complete list of course descriptions
400-Level Courses
Undergraduate courses are designated as B E (Biological Engineering)
462 Design of Wood Structures (3 credits)
465 Food and Biological Process Engineering (3 credits)
467 Design of Stormwater and Erosion Control Facilities (3 credits)
468 Microbiological Engineering (3 credits)
469W Optimization of Biological Production and Processing Systems (3 credits)
475 Food Engineering Equipment Design (3 credits)
477 Land-Based Waste Disposal (3 credits)
490W Agricultural and Biological Engineering Colloquium (1 credit)
494H Senior Honors Thesis (1-9 credits)
495 Agricultural Engineering Internship (1-6 credits)
496 Independent Studies (1-18 credits)
497 Special Topics (1-9 credits)
500-Level Courses
500 Research Methods in Agricultural and Biological Engineering (3 credits) Introduction to research philosophies, methodologies, issues and policies; measures of research quality; research report writing; research ethics.
504 Mechanics and Properties of Particulate Materials (3 credits)
Constitutive equations for cohesionless and cohesive particulate
materials; measurement of properties; application to storage, flow,
and consolidation.
513 Applied Finite Element, Finite Difference, and Boundary Element
Methods (3 credits) Applications of numerical methods in the areas
of structures, fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer, machine design.
517 Surface Transport of Agricultural Pollutants (3 credits) Understanding
and modeling the surface transport processes of agricultural pollutants;
particularly erosion, sediment transport, and movement of sediment-attached
constituents.
559 Biological and Agricultural Systems Simulation (3 credits) Continuous
simulation modeling of biological and physical systems, numerical
simulation techniques, validation and verification, difference measures,
sensitivity analysis. Prerequisites: MATH 111 or 141.
562 (EMCH) Boundary Element Analysis (3 credits) Numerical solution
of boundary value problems using fundamental solutions; application
to problems in potential theory, diffusion, and elastostatics. Prerequisite:
A B E 513, E MCH 461, or 560.
568 Food Safety Engineering (3 credits)
572 Wood Engineering (3 credits) Advanced topics in wood engineering
including LFRD, diaphragms, SIPs, non-prismatic members, creep models,
post-frame and composite wood systems. Prerequisite: ABE 462 or W
P 412.
590 Colloquium (1-3 credits)
596 Individual Studies (1-9 credits)
597 Special Topics (1-9 credits)