Engineering Natural Solutions
Managing natural resources to address grand challenges related to providing food, water, fiber and energy locally and globally.
Biological and Agricultural Engineering makes our natural world work better. We discover new biological processes and use innovative technologies to conserve natural resources and improve air and water quality. From precision agricultural to food processing and water management, we’re engineering solutions for a sustainable future.
Partnering with the College of Engineering, we train tomorrow’s engineers to improve food and fiber production and protect our natural resources.
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For farms with a waste-not, want-not approach, animal feces offer untapped potential. The new Food Animal Resource Management and Sustainability Center works to harness this digestion by-product to help create self-sustaining farm systems.
From Code to Coop
From egg-collecting robots to intelligent systems that assess the health of individual birds, Ramesh Bist and his Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Lab are cracking into AI to develop innovative tools that help poultry producers better manage their flocks.
Check Out the Latest Issue of CALS Magazine
Take a peek inside the new issue of CALS Magazine to discover how the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is helping future-proof egg production with robotics, preserve North Carolina farmland, find solutions for the bioeconomy and more.
