What Do Engineers Do?
Agricultural engineers make a difference in the world by…
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Want to help the environment? Design a system to help protect natural resources.
Love Food? Create a tool to test quality and safety of food products.
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- Designing and develop new water systems to optimize crop production throughout the world while protecting scarce natural resources;
- Devising electronic instruments and methods for testing quality and safety of food and fiber products and their packaging;
- Leading teams in developing machines that work in various environments around the world to optimize the production of food, fiber and biological products; or
- Designing reliable systems of waste treatment and utilization and insect control for production systems where environmental lapses could endanger food supply.
Agricultural engineers apply knowledge of engineering technology and science to agriculture and the efficient use of biological resources. In addition to creating advances in farming and agriculture, agricultural engineers apply engineering design and analysis to protecting natural resources, develop power systems to support agriculture, and provide environmental controls.
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Did you know?
Just 100 years ago, nearly half of the population was needed to work on farms to supply enough food for our nation. Thanks to advances in agricultural engineering and its related field of biological engineering, it now takes only 2 percent of the population to accomplish this essential task. The benefits in the United States and other developed nations go well beyond a cheap and abundant supply of food we enjoy, they include ensuring a safe supply of food, a cleaner environment, and freeing up our workforce to create abundance in other areas of our lives.
Salary
The average starting Salary for an Agricultural Engineer (2007):
| B.S. Degree |
M.S. Degree |
| $49,764 |
$54,000 |
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