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Natural resource engineering is a strong component within the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering. Faculty and students are involved with environmental research related to agriculture, natural ecosystems, and urban/rural interface issues. Other projects focus on the design of engineered systems to address point and non-point source pollutants.

Faculty and student research interests span a wide variety of environmental and energy related topics including:

• Nonpoint source pollution transport and modeling
• Erosion and sedimentation control
• Water resource management and monitoring
• Nnutrient cycling in natural and constructed wetlands
• Compost management and utilization
• Animal manure and biosolids utilization
• Odor control
• Productions of value-added products by microbial fermentations
• Energy Management Systems
• Strategies for optimal use of energy in food production and processing systems
• Impacts on deregulation of electricity generation on food production and processing systems
• Energy Recovery from used plastics
• Renewable & alternative energy