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GENERAL INFORMATION
ACADEMIC UNITS
COURSES
PERSONNEL
REFERENCE

general information

Message From the President 2
The University of Hawai'i 5
Calendar 6-7
Undergraduate Education 8-
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UHM General Education Core and Graduation Requirements 23-
27
Graduate Education 28-
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Student Life 46-
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Tuition, Fees, and Financial Aid 59-
69
Degrees and Certificates 70-
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ACADEMIC UNITS

Architecture 72-
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Arts & Sciences, AMST-IT 77-
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Arts & Sciences, JOUR-ZOOL 122-
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Business Administration 176-
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Education
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207
Engineering 208-
216
Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies 217-
225
Health Sciences and Social Welfare 226
Interdisciplinary Programs 227-
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Law 234-
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Medicine 237-
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Nursing 256-
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Ocean and Earth Science and Technology 267-
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Outreach College 285-
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Public Health 289-
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ROTC Programs 293-
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Social Work
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Travel Industry Management 298-
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Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources 304-
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Instructional Support, Research, and Service Units  478-
483

courses

Overview 325
A - E 326-
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F - N 379-
427
O - Z 427-
477

personnel

Administration 484-
485
Endowed Chairs and Distinguished Professorships 486
Faculty 486-
510
Emeriti Faculty 511-
517
Instructional Support, Research, and Service Units Staff 518-
527

reference

Appendix 528-
532
Glossary 533-
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Courses: Biosystems Engineering
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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