Graduate Courses for Biological Resources Engineering (ENBE)

Schedule of Classes: Fall | Winter | Spring | Summer
(Only current and next semester available)

ENBE 415 Bioengineering of Exercise Response (3 credits)
Prerequisite: MATH246 or permission of department.
Exercise physiology in quantitative terms. Modeling and prediction of cardiovascular, respiratory, thermoregulatory, biomechanical, and metabolic aspects of human exercise responses.

ENBE 422 Water Resources Engineering (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ENME342 or ENCE330; or permission of department. Formerly INAG422.
Applications of engineering and soil sciences in erosion control, drainage, irrigation and watershed management. Principles of agricultural hydrology and design of water control and conveyance systems.

ENBE 462 Nonpoint Source Pollution Assessment Techniques (3 credits)
Prerequisite: one course in hydrology or permission of department.
Various techniques to identify and measure nonpoint source pollution. Primary focus is on agriculture and water.

ENBE 485 Capstone Design I (1 credits)
One hour of lecture per week. Prerequisite: ENBE454, ENBE455, and permission of department. Senior standing. For ENBE majors only.
To complete the curriculum of an undergraduate engineer, design procedures and professional concerns will be presented. Students will begin planning and designing their capstone projects. CORE capstone credit for ENBE485 and ENBE486 will not be awarded until satisfactory completion of ENBE486.

ENBE 486 Capstone Design II (2 credits)
Two hours of lecture per week. Prerequisite: ENBE485 taken in the immediately preceding semester. Senior standing. For ENBE majors only.
To complete the curriculum of an undergraduate engineer, design procedures and professional concerns will be presented. A complete, comprehensive, and professional design project will be realized by the student. CORE Capstone credit for ENBE485 and ENBE486 will not be awarded until satisfactory completion of ENBE486.

ENBE 488 Special Topics in Biological Engineering (1-4 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department.
Lecture and conference courses designed to extend the student's understanding of biological resources engineering. Current topics are emphasized.

ENBE 489 Special Problems in Biological Engineering (1-3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department.
Student will select an engineering problem and prepare a technical report. The problem may include design, experimentation, and/or data analysis.

ENBE 499 Special Problems in Agricultural Engineering Technology (1-3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Formerly ENAG499.
Not acceptable for majors in agricultural engineering. Problems assigned in proportion to credit.

ENBE 601 Instrumentation Systems (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Formerly ENAG601.
Analysis of instrumentation requirements and techniques for research and operational agricultural or biological systems.

ENBE 603 Transport Processes in Biological Systems (3 credits)
Prerequisites: differential equations and one semester of life sciences, or permission of department. Not open to students who have completed ENBE 454. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BIOE332, ENBE 454 or ENBE 603.
A study of the transport processes of fluid flow, heat transfer, and mass transfer applied to biological organisms and systems, using analogical and systems approaches.

ENBE 631 Modeling Flow Through Porous Media (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ENBE 422 or permission of department. Formerly ENAG631.
A comprehensive study of the principles and processes governing flow of water, chemicals, and biological organisms through porous media.

ENBE 633 Nonpoint Source Pollution Control (3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
Identification and control of Nonpoint Source (NPS) pollution. Primary focus is on the conjunctive use of mathematical modelling, artifical intelligence (AI), geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) in the development and validation of field, watershed and regional scale NPS pollution control plans.

ENBE 643 Advanced Biotransport Processes (3 credits)
Prerequisite: ENBE 454 or ENBE 603; or permission of department.
Modern mathematical methods used in engineering analysis and research on transport process in biological systems. Anaytical methods of solution moment analysis, chaotic dynamics, finite elements, stochastic and deterministic upscaling applied to transport phenomena in aquaculture, food, physiology, ecology, and bioenvironments.

ENBE 653 Biological Engineering Materials and Mechanics (3 credits)
Not open to students who have completed ENBE 453. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENBE 453 or ENBE 653.
Engineering properties of living and non-living materials and their relationships to biomechanics. Responses of biological tissues to imposed stresses.

ENBE 664 Biological Systems Modeling (3 credits)
Prerequisite: Math 246 or equivalent..
Development of mathematical models to describe biological systems using analogic techniques and numerical methods. Included are biotransport, population biology, and cellular engineering.

ENBE 688 Advanced Topics in Biological Engineering (1-4 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Formerly ENAG688.
Advanced topics of current interest in the various areas of biological engineering.

ENBE 698 Seminar (1 credits)
Formerly ENAG698.
First and second semesters.

ENBE 699 Special Problems in Biological Engineering (1-6 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Formerly ENAG699.
Individual study on various topics. Work assigned in proportion to amount of credit.

ENBE 701 Bioengineering Analysis of Human Physiological Response (3 credits)
Modeling of human physiology yields insight, understanding and the ability to predict responses. This course will present physiological principles from a bioengineering viewpoint; survey basic models appearing in the literature and the mechanics and control of energetics, biomechanics, cardiovascular, thermal, and respiratory responses.

ENBE 799 Master's Thesis Research (1-6 credits)
Formerly ENAG799.

ENBE 898 Pre-Candidacy Research (1-8 credits)

ENBE 899 Doctoral Dissertation Research (1-8 credits)
Formerly ENAG899.