Biological and Agricultural Engineering

General resources and discussion for projects for biological and agricultural engineering

Honors Resources

This guide includes basics of research, library resources, past BAEG honors theses, and other materials needed for honors theses research. Librarians can help through many stages of the research process such as crafting a proposal, literature review, identifying and searching in library sources, and with many other areas. Please refer to the college of engineering honors page for more information. 

BAEG Honors Advisor Contact -  Brian Haggard, email: haggard@uark.edu and phone: 479-387-5547

Departmental Requirements:

Biological and Agricultural Engineering offers an Honors Program for students affiliated with the Honors College. Graduation with Honors requires successful completion of the departmental Honors Program, which consists of:

  1. Completion of BENG 451VH, Honors Thesis of at least 3 semester credit hours. This course offers the student an opportunity to engage in high-level undergraduate research/design under the direction of a BENG faculty advisor or an Adjunct BENG faculty advisor. A written thesis is required, and a defense of this thesis will be made to a faculty committee who will determine its acceptability. BENG 451H will qualify as a BENG engineering/technical elective.
  2. Completion of BENG 3113H and BENG 3113LH, Measurement and Control for Biological Systems. This 3 credit hours course offers the student an opportunity to engage in high-level practice of applying biological engineering instrumentation to complex, real-world problems through an honors project that is an additional requirement to the standard version of the course. Honors students will be required to apply the knowledge gained from this course to an open-ended project. This additional requirement will add social, political, safety, economic and communication factors to the design.
  3. Fulfillment of other Honors graduation requirements as established by the College of Engineering and the Honors College.

The following Biological Engineering courses are offered for honors credit:

  • BENG 3113H – Honors Measurement and Control for Biological Systems
  • BENG 451VH – Honors Theses

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