Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering (Graduate)

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Website URL:

https://engineering.purdue.edu/ABE/foryou/graduate

Department/School Head:

Nathan S. Mosier

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. programs are offered in the following areas:

• Biological Engineering
• Food, Pharmaceutical, and Biological Process Engineering
• Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering
• Machine Systems Engineering
• Agricultural Systems Management
• Agricultural Safety and Health
• Data Science and Digital Agriculture

The Purdue University Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering graduate program is currently ranked #1 by U.S. News & World Report and has been nationally ranked for more than a dozen years. State-of-the-art facilities and internationally-known faculty support an average of 100 on-campus ABE graduate students per year and 150 graduate students through ABE’s hybrid Biotechnology Innovation & Regulatory Science program. Our innovative research creates products and processes that address national and global challenges in food, energy, water, health, and the environment.

Concentrations (Areas of Study):

• Biotechnology Innovation and Regulatory Science (Hybrid delivery MS also available)
• Data Science for Agricultural and Biological Engineering
• Fluid Power

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

R. P. Kingsly Ambrose
Dennis Buckmaster
Natalie Carroll
Keith Cherkauer
Kari Clase
Bernard Engel
William Field
Jane Frankenberger
Margaret Gitau
Konstantina Gkritza
Klein Ileleji
Michael Ladisch
John Lumkes
Nathan Mosier
Ganesan Narsimhan
Jiqin Ni
Martin Okos
D. Marshall Porterfield
Jenna Rickus
Dharmendra Saraswat
Roger Tormoehlen
Andrea Vacca

Associate Professor

Somali Chaterji
Sadegh Dabiri
Meng Deng
Vincent Duffy
Abigail Engelberth
Jian Jin
Shweta Singh
Robert Stwalley

Assistant Professor

Shawn Ehlers
John Evans
Caitlin Proctor
Ankita Raturi
Kurt Ristroph
Lizhi Shang
​Halis Simsek
Mohit Verma

Adjunct Faculty

Indrajeet Chaubey
Jingqiu Chen
Dennis Flanagan
Joseph Irudayaraj
Kevin Keener
Dirk Maier
Sara McMillan
Rabi Mohtar
Kevin Solomon
Mark Williams
Eduardo Ximenes

Courtesy Faculty

Laura Bowling
Carlos Corvalan
Melba Crawford
Jose Garcia Bravo
Allen Garner
Leopold Green
Jacob Hosen
Jen-Yi Huang
Jinha Jung
James Krogmeier
Niaz Latif
Stephen Lindemann
Venkatesh Merwade
Brittany Newell
David Umulis
Mark Ward

Programs

• Agricultural & Biological Engineering, PHD

• Agricultural & Biological Engineering, MS (Modality: Residential, Hybrid & Online)
• Agricultural & Biological Engineering, MSABE (Modality: Residential & Online)
• Agricultural & Biological Engineering, MSE

• Biotechnology Quality & Regulation Compliance, Post Baccalaureate Certificate (Modality: Residential, Hybrid & Online)
• Hybrid Vehicle Systems ABE, Post Baccalaureate Certificate

Courses

• ABE 50100 - Welding Engineering
• ABE 50300 - Surface Properties And Powder Performance Of Microparticulate Systems
• ABE 50501 - Particle, Powder, and Compact Characterization
• ABE 50502 - Particles, Powders, And Compact Characterization Laboratory
• ABE 51100 - Drug Development
• ABE 51200 - Good Regulatory Practices
• ABE 51300 - Quality Management, Audits, Inspections
• ABE 51400 - Documents And Dialogues Of Drug Development And Registration
• ABE 51500 - Molecular Basis Of Manufacturing
• ABE 52200 - Ecohydrology
• ABE 52700 - Computer Models In Environmental And Natural Resources Engineering
• ABE 52900 - Nonpoint Source Pollution Engineering
• ABE 53000 - Plant Phenotyping Technologies
• ABE 53100 - Instrumentation And Data Acquisition
• ABE 53500 - Design And Modeling Of Fluid Power Systems
• ABE 54000 - Principles Of Systems & Synthetic Biology
• ABE 54500 - Design Of Off-Highway Vehicles
• ABE 54700 - Models And Microbiomes
• ABE 55700 - Biological Engineering Design I
• ABE 55800 - Biological Engineering Design II
• ABE 56000 - Biosensors: Fundamentals And Applications
• ABE 58000 - Advanced Processes In Biological Engineering
• ABE 58500 - Soil Microbiology
• ABE 59000 - Special Problems
• ABE 59100 - Special Topics
• ABE 62600 - Technology Entrepreneurship And Research Translation
• ABE 62700 - Colloidal Phenomena In Bioprocessing
• ABE 65100 - Environmental Informatics
• ABE 68000 - Bioseparations And Bioprocess Engineering: Principles, Practice And Economics
• ABE 69100 - Special Topics
• ABE 69400 - Graduate Research Training
• ABE 69600 - Graduate Seminar
• ABE 69700 - Doctoral Professional Development
• ABE 69800 - Research MS Thesis
• ABE 69900 - Research PhD Thesis

• ASM 51000 - Agrosecurity-Emergency Management For Agricultural Production Operations
• ASM 51100 - Foundations In Homeland Security Studies
• ASM 51200 - Managing Resources and Applications for Homeland Security
• ASM 53000 - Power And Machinery Management
• ASM 53200 - Introduction To Agricultural Informatics
• ASM 54000 - Geographic Information System Application
• ASM 55000 - Grain Drying And Storage
• ASM 59000 - Special Problems
• ASM 59100 - Special Topics
• ASM 69800 - Research MS Thesis
• ASM 69900 - ASM Research PhD Thesis

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