Agricultural engineering helps in making farming sustainable, safe, and environmentally friendly. How? By analyzing agricultural operations and looking at new technologies and ways of doing things to improve land use, increase yields, and conserve resources.
This is an interesting and dynamic career choice, as agricultural engineering combines mechanical, civil, electrical, and chemical engineering principles with agricultural principles.
Agricultural engineers have much to do as increasing biological discoveries are adopted to farming practices like on-farm energy production. New uses for agricultural waste are becoming evident and crops are yielding not only food but new byproducts.
Agricultural engineers design equipment and develop methods for land preparation, planting, and harvesting. They use automation, precision, and smart or "intelligence" technologies with new and existing equipment. Sensors are used in combination with microcomputers, controllers, artificial intelligence, and other software, which optimizes efficiency, sustainability, and the reliability of food, feed, fiber, and fuel for the economy.
1. Production facilities.
2. Food engineering and the processing of agricultural products.