Biosystems Engineering (BE)
College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources
BE 351 Power Units for Biosystems (3) Basic
principles and practices of mechanization as applied to food and fiber
industries. Includes the planning and utilization of field power and
machinery; electric power, equipment systems for processing, handling,
and storage of agricultural products; soil and water management. Pre:
college math.
BE 351L Power Units Laboratory (1) (2 3-hr Lab) Lab
experience in application of mechanization principles and practices.
Pre: 351 or consent.
BE 360 Mass and Energy Balances (3) Introduction
of the principles of mass and energy conservation; development of
systematic approaches to apply these principles in calculations for
design and analysis of biochemical, chemical, and physical processes.
Pre: CHEM 171, PHYS 170, and MATH 206.
BE 401 Microcomputer Use in Biosystems (3) (2 Lec,
1 3-hr Lab) Use of microcomputers for problem solving in technical
writing; data acquisition, management, and analysis; expert system
models. Pre: MATH 205.
BE 411 Food Engineering (3) (2 Lec, 1 3-hr Lab) Principles
and application of thermodynamics, electricity, fluid mechanics, heat
transfer, psychometry, and material and energy balances to food
processing and preservation. Pre: one year physics. (Crosslisted as FSHN
411)
BE 413 Transport Phenomena (3) Fundamental
principles and applications relating to mass, momentum, and energy
transfers in biosystems and other systems for engineers and scientists.
Pre: CHEM 161, PHYS 170, and MATH 206; or consent.
BE 431 Biological Pollution Control (3) Environmental
impact; waste/wastewater characteristics; biological treatment
fundamentals and systems; utilization for feed, energy and fertilizer;
land treatment and stabilization; physical and chemical treatment;
nonpoint source control; management. Pre: CHEM 161.
BE 435 Irrigation Principles & Practices (3) Basic
principles of irrigation science with applications to irrigation
methods, furrow, sprinkler, and drip; water conveyance, distribution,
measurement; soil-water relations and movements; water requirements of
crops; and irrigation efficiency emphasis in the Hawaiian situation.
BE 436 Structures and Environments (3) Functional
design of agricultural structures, including shadehouses and
environmental control for production, treatment, and storage of plants
and animals. Repeatable. Pre: consent.
BE 437 Biosystems Unit Operations (2) Pumps
and fans; size reduction; cleaning and sorting; materials handling;
processing of fruits, nuts, vegetables, animals, and other bioproducts.
Pre: PHYS 151.
BE 460 Bioreactor Design and Analysis (3) Application
of mass/energy balances and reaction kinetics for the design and
analysis of bioreactors for microbial, plant, and animal cell cultures.
Pre: CHEM 161, PHYS 170, and MATH 205; or consent.
BE 481 Senior Engineering Design I (3) (1 1-hr Lec,
2 3-hr Lab) First of a two-semester course sequence that provides a
major design experience for senior students in biosystems engineering.
Design process; project management; design methods; modeling and
simulation; design optimization; engineering economics; engineering
statistics, initiation of an open-ended design project. Pre: 351/351L,
360, or consent.
BE 482 Senior Engineering Design II (3) (1 1-hr Lec,
2 3-hr Lab) Continuation of 481. Properties of biological materials;
risk and reliability; design ethics; guest lectures on engineering
design by practicing engineers; extension and completion of the design
project with submission of a final design report. Pre: 481 or consent.
BE 491 Biosystems Engineering Topics (V) Study
and discussion of significant topics and problems. Offered by visiting
faculty and/or for extension programs. Repeatable.
BE 492 Internship (4) Integration and
application of academic knowledge and critical skills emphasizing
professional development. Placement with an approved cooperating
supervisor/employer. Pre: consent.
BE 499 Directed Research (V) Research in the
area of biosystems engineering. Pre: consent.
BE 601 Bioprocess for Waste/Wastewater (3) Biochemical
oxidation and transfer of energy, quantitative description of microbial
growth, measurement of purification, aerobic treatment processes,
anaerobic treatment processes, nitrification and denitrification
processes, biological waste/wastewater design. Pre: consent.
BE 604 Aquaculture Systems (3) Study
and review of fundamental principles and mechanisms critical to
understanding and operating aquaculture systems. Engineering, business,
and operating analyses. Pre: CE 320, CHEM 151, and MATH 205.
BE 606 Instrumentation and Measurement (3) Measurement
concepts and operating principles applied to the selection and use of
instruments important to scientists and engineers dealing with
biological systems, including automatic data acquisition and processing.
Pre: CHEM 151, MATH 205, and ME 311; or consent.
BE 610 Advanced Food Processing Technology (3) Principles
and applications of new methods of food preservation. Repeatable. Pre:
FSHN 401 and FSHN 403, or equivalent; or consent. (Cross-listed as FSHN
610)
BE 622 Experimental Methods in Cause-Effect
Modeling (3) Factorial designs and fractional factorial designs for
screening variable and response optimization. Response surface
methodology. Experimental designs appropriate to building and testing
multi-variable behavior relationships. Sequential experimental designs.
BE 635 Irrigation System Design (3) Hydraulics
of surface irrigation, volume balance analysis and irrigation
efficiency, optimal length of run and irrigation scheduling; sprinkler
irrigation system design, distribution, and uniformity; drip irrigation
system design and related problems. Pre: 435 or consent.
BE 638 Biosystems Modeling (3) Introduction to
system thinking, procedures for developing system models,
characteristics of important agricultural system models, computer
approach to evaluation and optimization of system models. Pre: MATH 206.
BE 648 Biosystems Simulation (3) Discrete and
continuous simulation models and their application in design and
management of engineering and biological systems.
BE 660 Bioseparation Processes (3) Design,
analysis, and scale-up of separation process that incorporates unit
operations such as filtration, cell distribution, and chromatography for
the purification of biological products. Pre: CHEM 253 and MATH 205, or
consent. Fall only.
BE 699 Directed Research (V)
BE 700 Thesis Research (V)
BE 750 Seminar (1) Use of computer and video
technology in technical presentation, review of current biosystems
engineering research. Pre: consent.
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