Research Priorities
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Advance smart, automated, and resilient agri-food systems to enhance productivity, improve crop and animal health, and optimize resource use through precision agriculture, new machinery and robots, innovative proximal and remote sensing solutions, controlled environment production, food processing, nutrition enhancement, 听advanced materials, engagement of artificial intelligence, and data-driven decision-making.
- Develop and deploy regenerative engineering solutions to protect and restore soil, water, and ecosystems, while reducing environmental impacts, enhancing biodiversity, and supporting the sustainable management of natural resources.
- Innovate and scale circular bioeconomy technologies and bio-based materials that convert residues and waste streams into high-value products, reduce emissions, minimize waste, and decrease reliance on non-renewable resources, including through biofuels, renewable energy integration, biocomposites, and advanced manufacturing.
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Bio-Environmental Engineering
Bio-Environmental Engineering involves the responsible stewardship of the environment and natural resources. It includes the study of soil and water quality management and conservation, organic waste treatment, urban and rural ecology, sustainability engineering, biodiversity preservation, climate change adaptation, and many other related topics.
Research areas: Ecological engineering; Hydrology and water engineering and management; Water resource and environmental systems engineering; Soil and water ecology engineering
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Bio-Production Engineering
Bio-Production Engineering uses science and technology to create systems and machines for the production of crops, livestock, and biomass. This includes machine design, robotics, artificial intelligence, geomatics and GIS, remote sensing, buildings and structures, and complex systems.
Research areas: Biomass production engineering; Urban agriculture engineering; Precision agriculture and sensor systems engineering; Smart production systems engineering; Irrigation and drainage engineering
Bio-Process Engineering
Bio-Process Engineering applies engineering to transform agricultural commodities and biomass into products such as food, fiber, fuel, and biochemicals. This includes the engineering of foods and food processes, physical properties of biological materials, post-harvest technology, fermentation and bio-processing, the management of organic wastes, biotechnology, the design of machinery for bioprocessing, etc.听
Research areas: Post-harvest technologies engineering; Food process engineering; Food quality, safety and security engineering; Biofuel processing; Bio-based responsive materials and chemical engineering; Bio-inspired multifunctional metamaterials and meta-structures engineering