Learning Outcomes: 1. Work effectively in teams by creating a collaborative and inclusive environment, establishing goals and meeting objectives
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Practice oral and written communication
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Demonstrate safe use of engineering fabrication equipment and techniques and general shop safety procedures
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Generate a functional design prototype based on working through the engineering design process steps
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the definitions and relationships between material properties of biological materials, such as bulk density, moisture content, and porosity.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Employ dimensional analysis to check the correctness of physical relations and to convert the value of a physical quantity in one system to the value in another.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Describe the definitions and relationships among the thermodynamic properties such as internal energy, enthalpy, and entropy for pure materials and air-water mixtures.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Employ energy and material balances in the analysis of batch and continuous as well as reactive and nonreactive processes.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Use psychometric charts to design heating, cooling, and drying systems for biological materials.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate knowledge about fundamentals of computer aided design (CAD) concepts and techniques that include two-and three-dimensional graphical presentations
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Create CAD parts, assemblies, and engineering drawings
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Apply the methods of graphic communication rules which include Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T)
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Present data, design synthesis, and production methods in engineering graphics
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Apply the proper and efficient use of the latest engineering design and analysis tools
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe basic geospatial concepts and engineering principles applicable to the acquisition and management of land information.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Apply an engineer’s level and total station instrument for land surveying.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Identify important resources, and retrieve, interpret, analyze and critique information for use in solving geospatial engineering problems and conducting basic land information investigations.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Apply the remote sensing techniques and geospatial data processing tools for land information management.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Communicate effectively through engagement during in-class discussions.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the basic personal financial management skills necessary for early-career engineers, including preparing for costs such as housing, healthcare, and transportation. 
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Recognize and implement select improvement strategies in the areas of interpersonal skills, communication, and social media facility to build personal and professional networks and create a “brand” as an engineer. 
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Identify and explain the benefits of direct involvement in one’s engineering professional society/organization, including building ongoing professional relationships and pursuing ongoing professional development and lifelong learning.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Explain the processes and professional benefits associated with completing the FE (Fundamentals of Engineering) exam and becoming a PE (Professional Engineer).
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Apply the Engineering Code of Ethics to specific cases and scenarios that present ethical challenges for engineers around decision making, product safety, economic tradeoffs, sustainability, and other issues.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Provide examples of the importance of understanding diversity (gender, ethnicity, culture, etc.) as a practicing engineer as it relates to working on an engineering team and best serving a global customer base. 
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Develop a long-range, comprehensive career plan that includes goal setting, plans for lifelong learning, personal financial management/decision making, and other factors, synthesizing the semester’s class content.
Audience: Undergraduate

8. Recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts. (ABET Outcome 4)
Audience: Undergraduate

9. Acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate learning strategies. (ABET Outcome 7)
Audience: Undergraduate

10. Apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors. (ABET Outcome 2)
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Define the terminology used in project economic analysis
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Describe time-value-of-money and discounting concepts
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Apply the criteria for making economic-based decisions
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Analyze before-tax and after-tax cash flows
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Explain economic risk analysis techniques
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Demonstrate capability to use a spreadsheet program in solving economic problems
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Estimate costs and perform an economic analysis in support of a research or engineering project
Audience: Undergraduate

8. Describe techniques used to manage company project portfolios
Audience: Undergraduate

9. Develop engineering economic problem-solving techniques similar to those in the Engineering Economics portion of the Fundaments of Engineering exam
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain what precision livestock is and why it is needed
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Demonstrate familiarity with data science and artificial intelligence principles as applied to agricultural systems and veterinary medicine
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Describe the current sensor sensing technologies used in livestock and companion animals
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Explain principles and applications of sensor technology applied to animals
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Identify artificial intelligence applications in veterinary medicine
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Evaluate the major ethical concerns associated with Artificial Intelligence for agriculture
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and analyze how energy and materials enter and are utilized by cells, organisms, and ecosystems using engineering concepts including material and energy balances, redox balance, and the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Mathematically model important biological processes including enzyme kinetics and microbial growth and be able to quantitatively assess how interactions between biological characteristics and the environment affect system performance.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Recognize the basic types of plants and their ecosystems and be able to describe the ways in which plants interact with their environment and how that interaction can be manipulated to achieve desired outcomes.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Describe the ways in which all living creatures interact with each other and their environment on the local, regional, and global scale and to consider how the activities of people can affect the sustainability of these interactions.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the engineering properties of food and biomaterials, including physical, rheological, thermal, aerodynamic and hydrodynamic, and electromagnetic properties
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Explain moisture and water activity and their impacts on the properties and processing of food and biomaterials
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Demonstrate the importance and applications of the engineering properties in agricultural systems
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Analyze how the environmental conditions and the composition and structure of biomaterials affect the engineering properties
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Interpret the designs, working principles, experimental setups. and operations of the instruments/devices for measuring/determining the engineering properties
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics (ABET Outcome 1)
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze, and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions (ABET Outcome 6)
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the calibration and measurement process.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Design systems for the acquisition, analysis, and communication of measured data.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Describe the principles of operation and limitations of common engineering instruments and sensors.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Implement measures to minimize electromagnetic interference and noise in measurements.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Select and use position, velocity, force, torque, temperature, pressure, and fluid flow sensors.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Display enhanced problem solving skills involving electronics and instrumentation.
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Display improved communications skills both written (lab reports) and oral (presentation).
Audience: Undergraduate

8. Display enhanced teamwork skills.
Audience: Undergraduate

9. Select and/or utilize the most appropriate methodologies and practices.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Calculate energy and power production for renewable energy systems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Determine renewable resource availability and impact on energy infrastructure
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Design and assess the technical and economic feasibility of renewable energy systems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge(s) of renewable energy systems.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Produce comprehensive renewable energy project analysis.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify, formulate, solve complex wastewater management and engineering problems by applying engineering and science principles to design a complete residential onsite wastewater treatment system.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Use engineering design to produce wastewater management solutions that meet treatment goals with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Communicate effectively with the instructor and other students during in-class discussions.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in onsite wastewater management and engineering situations and make informed design assumptions/judgments, which must consider the impact of wastewater management solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal context.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Analyze and interpret data related to wastewater flow, source, and characteristics, soil/site characteristics, and use engineering judgement to select appropriate design solutions.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Acquire and apply new knowledge regarding advanced treatment processes for residential wastewater treatment.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze agricultural and life sciences data using computer code
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Import data from multiple formats into numeric software for analysis
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Perform fundamental statistical analyses and basic data interpretation
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Write code to create graphical displays of data and model simulations
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Critique and improve data presentation with ethics and inclusivity in mind
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Work as an individual and in teams to solve data science challenges
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Create scientific workflows for automated data import, analysis, and presentation
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply advanced sensing and computing techniques and modern engineering tools for intelligent agricultural system design
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Apply basic machine learning models and engineering principles to solve digital agriculture problems
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Identify important resources to retrieve, interpret, analyze, and critique information for use in solving problems in digital agriculture
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Deliver presentations to an audience of peers discussing the development of machine learning models and interpretation of modeling results
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the opportunities and challenges of energy, chemicals, and materials from biomass
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Describe chemical composition, anatomical structure, and physical & chemical properties of lignocellulosic biomass and their effect on biomass processing and conversion
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Evaluate the technologies and processes and their working principles for producing liquid biofuels, such as corn ethanol, cellulose ethanol, biodiesel, and other alternative fuels.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Outline representative platform chemicals derivable from biomass, such as furfural, HMF, levulinic acid, lactic acid, xylitol, and sorbitol, and their production technologies and reaction chemistry
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Compare the production of fibers, pulp & paper, and biobased materials from lignocellulosic biomass
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Develop mass balance for a process to convert biomass to fuel, chemical, or material.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Design a process to produce a target product (fuel, chemical, or material)
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

8. Synthesize the historical and current research on a select topic in biorefining and generate evidence-based predictions regarding the future direction of the topic.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe bioprocessing operations (e.g., food processing and biofuels)
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Develop mass and energy balances on unit operations (e.g., heat exchangers, evaporators, dryers, filters)
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Develop a series of unit operations to perform the desired transformations of mass and energy in bioprocessing operations
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Stimulate a system or process to determine impact of theoretical changes and conduct virtual experiments to optimize components or system
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Consider the effect of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, culture, social, environmental, and economic factors on process design
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Design a system to meet the operational and regulatory demands of food and bioprocessing plants
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate knowledge about fundamental heat and mass transfer modes
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify governing equations, boundary conditions, and initial conditions
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Analyze the interrelationships among conduction, convection, radiation, and mass diffusion
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Demonstrate knowledge about the significance of theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches to solve heat and mass transfer problems
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Apply heat and mass transfer concepts and principles to real-world agricultural, environmental, and biosystems problems
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify, formulate, and solve complex water, sediment, and manure management, and engineering problems by applying engineering and science principles to design water control, erosion control, and nutrient management systems.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Apply engineering design to produce water, sediment, and manure management solutions that meet agricultural production needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Communicate effectively with the instructor and other students during in-class discussions.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in water, sediment, and manure management, and engineering situations and make informed design assumptions/judgments, which must consider the impact of soil & water conservation and manure management solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal context.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Function effectively on a team to accomplish assigned tasks.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Analyze and interpret data related to rainfall and runoff, soil characteristics, tillage practices, and manure characteristics and use engineering judgement to select appropriate design solutions.
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Acquire and apply new knowledge relate to sustainable agricultural production systems that can protect and preserve soil and water resources while maintaining agricultural productivity.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify, formulate and solve complex water management and engineering problems by applying hydrologic, biologic, and engineering principles applicable to the design of efficient water management systems and components.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Apply engineering design to produce water management solutions that meet agricultural production needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Communicate effectively through engagement during in-class discussions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in water management and engineering situations and make informed judgements, which must consider the impact of water management solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal context
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge of water use
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Analyze the causes of and solutions for the sustainability challenge of clean water and efficient use of water
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Identify, evaluate, and synthesize contemporary literature on a specific water management issue
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze various positive displacement pumps for flow, pressure, power, and efficiency
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Determine flow and pressure drop characteristics of spool-type and poppet-type proportional, on-off, and servovalves
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Construct hydraulic system schematics and select components from a functional system description
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Determine efficiency and design improvements for mobile and industrial hydraulic systems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Develop mathematical models of hydraulic system/components and solve using numerical techniques
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and describe key operating and design principles, concepts, and methods related to agricultural field machinery
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Calculate relevant quantities regarding the design and engineering of agricultural field machinery
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Critically review results of engineering calculations to ensure answers are realistic
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Choose, synthesize and effectively utilize appropriate ASABE engineering standards, methods, and concepts regarding agricultural field machinery
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Hone skills in teamwork, oral and written communication, and problem solving
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Critically review emerging technology and apply relevant concepts to current issues with agricultural field machinery
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Demonstrate an ability to formulate, analyze, and independently solve advanced engineering problems
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems related to off-road vehicle dynamics and mobility
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Glean relevant data from the engineering research literature and technical data sheets, and specify appropriate components and systems in the application of off-road vehicle design
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Perform an experiment on off-road vehicle systems, analyze and interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Apply knowledge gained in the course to evaluate off-road vehicle design alternatives
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Critically review off-road vehicle research
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop design requirements for biological systems engineering design problems.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Conduct technical reviews of engineering problems.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Develop alternative solutions to biological systems engineering problems.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives as part of a team.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Develop alternative solutions to biological systems engineering problems.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Develop a model or prototype to evaluate an engineering design.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Provide leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks, and meet objectives as part of a team.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Communicate effectively with a range of audiences.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify, formulate and solve complex hydrologic engineering problems by applying hydrologic, sedimentologic, and engineering principles applicable to the design of water and sediment control systems and components
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Apply engineering design to produce water and sediment control solutions that meet regulatory requirements with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Communicate technical information effectively
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in watershed engineering situations and make informed judgements, which must consider the impact of watershed engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal context
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Demonstrate advanced application of hydrologic, sedimentologic, and/or engineering principles.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Use departmental and campus resources to make academic progress (coursework and research) with their graduate degree program.
Audience: Graduate

2. Develop research questions related to their thesis research work.
Audience: Graduate

3. Develop skills to effectively review/critique scientific publications.
Audience: Graduate

4. Communicate technical information effectively using posters and oral presentations.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Evaluate (in both verbal and written formats) the quality of professional or academic research presentations.
Audience: Graduate

2. Apply the principles of ethical and professional conduct.
Audience: Graduate

3. Analyze peer-reviewed research within a select subject area.
Audience: Graduate

4. Communicate field specific information effectively with a professional/academic audience.
Audience: Graduate