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- Introduction to Biosystems EngineeringHolden, Nicholas M.; Wolfe, Mary Leigh; Ogejo, Jactone Arogo; Cummins, Enda J. (American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) in association with Virginia Tech Publishing, Virginia Tech Libraries, 2021-01)
The discipline of Biosystems Engineering emerged in the 1990s from the traditional strongholds of Agricultural and Food Engineering with the goal of advancing engineering solutions toward creating a sustainable world with abundant food, water, and energy, while maintaining a healthy environment. While the discipline has continued to grow, so has the demand for quality educational resources that instructors can use to teach Biosystems Engineering courses. The publication of this book marks an important step in meeting that demand. Introduction to Biosystems Engineering can be used as a customizable text for university-level introductory courses in Biosystems Engineering. Written by an international team of authors, the book is divided into six sections aligned with technical communities within Biosystems Engineering: Energy Systems; Information Technology, Sensors, and Control Systems; Machinery Systems; Natural Resources and Environmental Systems; Plant, Animal, and Facility Systems; and Processing Systems. Within the sections, individual chapters focus on discrete topics that can be covered in one week of class. Each chapter contains the expected learning outcomes, key concepts, applications of the concepts, and worked examples. Introduction to Biosystems Engineering is available in print and online. The online version is freely downloadable as a complete work and as individual, stand-alone chapters. In addition, a parallel resource is in development—The Biosystems Engineering Digital Library (BEDL)—which will provide more teaching and learning materials for instructors to use in the classroom (ASABE.org/BE). View the video about these projects. Are you reviewing or adopting this book for a course?
Instructors adopting or reviewing this text are encouraged to record their use on this form. This helps the book's sponsors to understand this open textbook's impact. A planned successor volume, Introduction to Biosystems Engineering II, is in development, with new chapters being released starting in 2022. To access these chapters go to: https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineeringII. ISBN (PDF): 9781949373974
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View errata The work is published jointly by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) and Virginia Tech Publishing. Virginia Tech is a member of the Open Education Network Publishing Cooperative. Find this and other ASABE Publications at https://elibrary.asabe.org. Table of contents & DOIs
Energy Systems - Bioenergy Conversion Systems (Bioenergy_Systems) https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering/Bioenergy_Systems - Biogas Energy from Organic Wastes (Biogas) https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering/Biogas - Biodiesel from Oils and Fats (Biodiesel) https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering/Biodiesel - Baling Biomass: Densification and Energy Requirements (Baling_Biomass) https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering/Baling_Biomass Information Technology, Sensors and Control Systems - Basic Microcontroller Use for Measurement and Control (Microcontroller) https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering/Microcontroller - Visible and Near Infrared Optical Spectroscopic Sensors for Biosystems Engineering (Optical_Sensors) https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering/Optical_Sensors - Data Processing in Biosystems Engineering (Data_Processing) https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering/Data_Processing Machinery Systems - Traction (Traction) https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering/Traction - Crop Establishment and Protection (Crop_Establishment) https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering/Crop_Establishment - Grain Harvest and Handling (Grain_Harvest) https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering/Grain_Harvest - Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems in Agricultural Machinery (Mechatronics) https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering/Mechatronics Natural Resources & Environmental Systems - Water Budgets for Sustainable Water Management (Water_Budget) https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering/Water_Budget - Water Quality as a Driver of Ecological System Health (Ecosystem_Health) https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering/Ecosystem_Health - Quantifying and Managing Soil Erosion on Cropland (Soil_Erosion) https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering/Soil_Erosion - Anaerobic Digestion of Agri-Food By-products (Anaerobic_Digestion) https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering/Anaerobic_Digestion - Measurement of Gaseous Emissions from Animal Housing (Gaseous_Emissions) https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering/Gaseous_Emissions Plant, Animal and Facility Systems - Plant Production in Controlled Environments (Plant_Controlled_Environment) https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering/Plant_Controlled_Environment - Building Design for Energy Efficient Livestock Housing (Livestock_Housing_Energy) https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering/Livestock_Housing_Energy Processing Systems - Freezing of Food (Freezing_Food) https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering/Freezing_Food - Principles of Thermal Processing of Packaged Foods (Food_Thermal_Processing) https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering/Food_Thermal_Processing - Deep Fat Frying of Food (Frying_Food) https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering/Frying_Food - Irradiation of Food (Food_Irradiation) https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering/Food_Irradiation - Packaging (Packaging) https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering/Packaging Accessibility note
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Holden, N. M., Wolfe, M. L., Ogejo, J. A., and E. J. Cummins. (2021) Introduction to Biosystems Engineering, ASABE and Virginia Tech Publishing. https://doi.org/10.21061/IntroBiosystemsEngineering, CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 - The "threads" of biosystems engineeringBriassoulis, D.; Gallego, E.; Pantaleo, A. M.; Holden, Nicholas M.; Owende, P.; Ting, K. C.; Mallikarjunan, Kumar (American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 2014)The core concepts, or threads, of biosystems engineering (BSEN) are variously understood by those within the discipline but have never been unequivocally defined due to BSEN's early stage of development. This makes communication and teaching difficult compared to other well-established engineering disciplines. Biosystems engineering is afield of engineering that integrates engineering science and design with applied biological, environmental, and agricultural sciences. It represents an evolution of the agricultural engineering discipline applied to all living organisms but generally does not include biomedical applications. The key element for the emerging EU biosystems engineering program of studies is to ensure that it offers essential minimum fundamental engineering knowledge and competences. A core curriculum developed by successive Erasmus thematic networks has benchmarked agricultural and biosystems engineering studies in Europe. The common basis of a core curriculum for the discipline across European countries and the U.S. has been defined by an EU-US Atlantis project, but this needs to be taken further by defining the threads that link courses together This article presents a structured approach to define the threads of BSEN. Definition of the mid-level competences and the associated learning outcomes has been one of the objectives of the EU-US Atlantis project TABE.NET. The mid-level competences and learning outcomes for each of six specializations within BSEN are defined, while the domain-specific knowledge to be acquired for each outcome is proposed. Once the proposed definitions are discussed, modified, and ultimately adopted, these threads will be available for the global development of BSEN.