| Initially known as the department of Mechanical Engineering of Agricultural Machinery, the department of Biosystems Engineering started admitting undergraduate students in 2007.In 2012, with the admission of master students, the initial steps were taken for the development of graduate studies and the promotion of research activities of the department. At the same time, as extensive changes were made to the fields related to agricultural machinery, the name of the department changed into Biosystems Engineering in 2013. Currently, the department of Biosystems Engineering admits bachelor students in Biosystems Mechanical Engineering, and Food Industry Machinery Engineering, and master students in Agricultural Machinery Design, Post-harvest Technology and Renewable Energies. The development of biosystem engineering department to attract PhD students in all three current majors of MSc. and to attract foreign undergraduate and graduate students is one of the medium-term goals of this group. At present, this department has 10 staffs, 20 graduate students and 250 undergraduate students. This group has six active research laboratories and five training workshops. The goals of biosystems engineering department concentrate on merging new engineering technologies in agriculture. The mission is introducing agriculture in rural areas to reach sustainable agriculture. Another aim is training specialists to design, and optimize agricultural machinery, develop precision farming, postharvest technologies, and design and implement renewable energy systems, application of bioprocesses and sensors in agriculture, horticulture and animal husbandry systems. The research topics are the design and fabrication of agricultural machinery, the adaptation of post-harvest technologies to agro-food industry and implementation of renewable energies in rural area. Science and engineering techniques i.e., mechanical, electrical, computer, and food engineering courses trained to students to work in industries. |
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