Biological Engineering (BE) 1 BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING BE 302: Heat and Mass Transfer in Biological Systems 4 Credits (BE) This course applies the principles of heat and mass transfer to natural and engineered biological systems, ranging from soil/water ecosystems BE 1: Growing Your Future--First-Year Seminar to animal, plant, and microbial production systems. Heat transfer 1 Credits mechanisms (conduction, convection, and radiation) are covered, as well as analysis techniques for steady state and transient cases. Mass First-year seminar to introduce students to the breadth of the agricultural transfer mechanisms (diffusion, dispersion, and convection) are also and biological engineering profession, including bioprocessing, covered followed by simultaneous heat and mass transfer, including machinery, and natural resources. B E 001S Growing Your Future--First- psychrometrics, ventilation, and drying. Applications of heat and mass Year Seminar (1) This first-year seminar introduces students to the transfer to agricultural and biological engineering are interwoven university in general and to the breadth of the agricultural and biological throughout the course. These applications may include heat exchangers engineering profession. Students participate in hands-on lab activities in for hydraulic systems, flow through porous media, soil freezing and the focus areas of the profession, including machinery systems, food and thawing, bioreactor design, post-harvest product storage, animal housing, biological processing, and natural resource engineering. Through these and greenhouses. lab activities and a group project, students learn how the profession is critical to providing a growing world population with food, fiber, fuel, and Prerequisite: BE 301 and ( MATH 251 or ( MATH 250 and MATH 252 ) ) water under increasing environmental constraints. In addition to being and ( ME 300 or ME 201 or CHE 220 or EMCH 302H ) Concurrent: CE 360 introduced to Penn State as an academic community, students also or ME 320 become familiar with the resources, tools, and opportunities available to BE 303: Structural Systems in Agriculture them. Through the lab activities and in-class discussions on research, internship, and international opportunities, students meet and establish 3 Credits relationships with faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students affiliated with the Biological Engineering and BioRenewable The objective of this course is to provide the student with the essential Systems programs. skills necessary to engage in practical agricultural structure analysis and design. Topics include a review of shear, moment and deflection First-Year Seminar concepts; loading in agricultural structures including earth loads, grain loads and livestock loads; methods for the analysis of determinate and BE 297: Special Topics indeterminate beams, trusses and frames; the material properties of 1-9 Credits/Maximum of 9 wood including impact of species, grain orientation, degree of hydration, etc., on member adequacy. The nano and molecular structure of wood Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively is also discussed and how it impacts material properties. The course is narrow subject which may be topical or of special interest. focused on the practical application of basic engineering principles with examples. The course contains a design analysis project where a student BE 299: Foreign Studies team analyzes an industrially designed structure (typically a post-frame building containing a truss roof system), which has been designed for 1-12 Credits/Maximum of 12 a specific area. The team then redesigns the structure for a different Course offered in foreign countries by individual or group instruction location with different snow and wind loadings as well as intended usage, and optimizes the structure for efficient design of the structural International Cultures (IL) members. The design and analysis may be completed using a common industrial software package. The course will serve as a prerequisite for BE 301: Mathematical Modeling of Biological and Physical Systems senior-level structural design courses. 3 Credits Prerequisite: E MCH210 or E MCH213 The ability to quantify relationships into mathematical models, BE 304: Engineering Properties of Food and Biological Materials and implement the models into the computer to find solutions, is essential for engineering analysis and design. This course provides the 3 Credits student with tools for modeling biological and physical systems. Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to: identify a process/ Engineering properties play a crucial role during the analysis, design, system and represent that process/system mathematically; solve the and synthesis phases of problem solving. The accurate knowledge mathematically-represented system using computer-based modeling of properties is essential to the precise determination of the overall tools, such as Excel and MATLAB; describe the emphasis areas offered in system and component responses. Due to the time-dependent and the Biological Engineering major; and be able to develop a systems model environmentally-sensitive nature of properties of the agricultural, food, related to each area. The course includes engineering economics, matrix and biological materials, the theory and measurement systems are operations, curve fitting, numerical integration and differentiation, linear different from those used for conventional engineering materials and and non-linear systems of equations, and applications of these methods their systems. Therefore, the focus of this course is to provide the to biological and agricultural systems. students with sound bases of the theory and measurement methods that are used to quantify physical, mechanical, thermal, biological, and Prerequisite: MATH 250 or MATH 251 chemical properties of products and their systems. In addition, the 2 Biological Engineering (BE) significance and importance of the inherent variation in the property BE 307: Principles of Soil and Water Engineering values of agricultural, food, and biological materials is emphasized. 3 Credits Prerequisites: EMCH 210 or EMCH 213 Concurrent: BE 301 and ( CE 360 or ME 320 ) and ( MATH 251 or MATH 252 ) BE 307 focuses on utilization and engineering of soil-water resources, including rainfall-runoff, soil-water movement, erosion/sediment BE 305: Agricultural Measurements and Control Systems transport and flow processes. For each topic, the significance, underlying principles and equations will be covered, along with further exploration 3 Credits in a practical and experiential mode with class participants sharing in problem formulation, team problem solving, discussions, lab activities, Principles of measurements, instruments, controls, and data acquisition and explanations/presentations. Students will be exposed to map systems, with emphasis on agricultural applications. B E 305 Agricultural use, representative soil profiles, cropping-management systems, Measurements and Control Systems (3)Engineers and scientists and watershed-scale settings. Lab activities will sequentially build are routinely required to measure or control parameters of physical from one lab period to the next, showing how each stage of soil and systems. Frequently, these parameters are quantified electronically. water engineering is used to develop a more complete watershed- This course prepares the student to solve fundamental engineering type project. As appropriate, field trips will be scheduled so as to show instrumentation and control problems with emphasis on agricultural and course participants the practical settings in which basic soil and biological systems. Upon completion of this course, the student will be water engineering principles can be applied. The course will serve as able to: select and apply electronic devices to solve basic engineering preparation for the senior-level soil and water engineering design courses measurement and control problems; apply interference (noise) reduction in the Natural Resources Engineering Option of the Biological Engineering techniques using sound engineering principles; demonstrate correct (BE) major. use of common electronic measurement tools including multimeters, oscilloscopes and others; demonstrate electrical construction techniques Concurrent: CE 360 or ME 320 including cable preparation, soldering, crimping, circuit board fabrication, and others; explain simple measurement and control circuits represented BE 308: Engineering Elements of Biochemistry and Microbiology by schematics or ladder diagrams; demonstrate the application of dataloggers, microcontrollers, programmable logic controllers, and 3 Credits computer software to collect data and/or control basic processes; Introduction to basic biochemistry and microbiology as well as industrial explain the function of common circuit components such as resistors, and environmental applications. B E 308 Engineering Elements of capacitors, inductors, diodes, transistors, op-amps, and transformers in Biochemistry and Microbiology (3) B E 308 provides an introduction simple circuits. Students are evaluated on homework and lab worksheets, to microbiology, biochemistry, and major organic compounds found in quizzes, an oral presentation, and a final project. living systems such as carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and vitamins, Prerequisite: PHYS 212 as a package to engineering students. Energy calculations in microbial bioenergetics will be covered. Examples of industrial and