Biosystems Engineering Open House: Solving Problems in Food, Health, Energy, and Environmental Systems

Biosystems engineers combine biology, math, and design to solve problems related to food, health, energy, and the environment. Explore how engineers benefit society by touring a laboratory where technology to kill pathogens is engineered. See biological sensors that can detect disease and examine the world's smallest flowering the plant under a microscope. Visit an engineered reactor that converts renewable biomass into fuel, learning how it works from its designer. Get your hands dirty restoring a model river using ecological engineering techniques. Learn how robotics are used to improve agricultural production of fruits. Chat with both students and professors about Biosystems Engineering.