"We expect that Harbin Tian Xin
Biological Engineering Ltd.
Coordinator for the
Biological Engineering program since 2001 and coordinator for the Agricultural Systems Management program since 2006, Heinemann was honored with the Undergraduate Program Leadership Award for those efforts in 2008.
Sediment losses become more prevalent because tilling often is required in continuous-corn fields, whereas corn-soybean rotations more easily can be no-fill fields, explains Bernard Engel, head of the Department of Agricultural and
Biological Engineering. "The common practice is there is a lot of tillage to put corn back on top of corn.
John Essigmann, a professor of chemistry, toxicology and
biological engineering, conducts research on differential gene expression in response to exposure to aflatoxin, a natural DNA-damaging agent that is widespread in the environment.
The two companies will co-publish 10-15 books a year in such areas as process safety,
biological engineering and sustainability.
The key to success may well be suggested by a major national trend among chemical engineering departments to counter their own enrollment difficulties by modifying their curricula to incorporate more of the biological sciences and even changing their names to Chemical and
Biological Engineering, or a similar variant.
Martin Okos, Department of Agricultural and
Biological Engineering, Purdue University, 1146 Agricultural and
Biological Engineering Building, West Lafayette, IN 47907; phone: 765-494-1211; fax: 765-496-1115; email: okos@ecn.purdue.edu.
MIT's
Biological Engineering Division offers an M.Eng.
UW professor of chemical and
biological engineering James Dumesic said he worked with graduate students George Huber and John Shabaker in testing more than 300 materials to find "a nickel-tin-aluminum combination that reacts with biomass-derived oxygenated hydrocarbons to produce hydrogen and carbon dioxide without producing large amounts of unwanted methane."
If so, Mendelsohn declares, "this report would seem to signal the dawn of the age of light-based
biological engineering."--P.W.
Like so many of the stories collected for this special issue, my path to agricultural and
biological engineering was not my choice in the beginning.