NC State Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering

10/14/2026

What can you actually do with a Biological and Agricultural Engineering Technology degree? 🚜

In this episode of Beyond BAE, Tommy Stephenson sits down with BAET alumna Taylor Cross to talk about how she landed her job as a precision agriculture specialist at CNH Industrial.

“I remember when I first got this job, I was still reflecting on some of those notes, study guides and textbooks from NC State, from the BAET program,” Cross says. 🧰

Discover how the close-knit mentorship between BAE professors and students helps bridge the gap between the classroom and real-world career success. Link in bio 🔗

09/21/2026

Last Friday we celebrated two outstanding BAE alumni!

At this year's CALS Alumni Awards, Darrell Westmoreland was honored as an Outstanding Alumnus, and Randall Etheridge was named an Outstanding Young Alumnus. 🐺

We are so proud they are members of our !

09/18/2026

Explaining your research to a broad audience can be tricky, but it's an essential ability researchers must have!💬

To sharpen this skill, our Graduate Student Association hosted a two-minute purpose competition yesterday where students had to explain their research in two minutes to a panel of judges ranging from a kindergartner to a 24-year-old.

It was an afternoon filled with new knowledge, fun prizes and lots of Capri Suns!

Congratulations to our fabulous winners!🏅

09/10/2026

Last week students showcased their summer internships, research and study abroad experiences at the CALS SHINES event. 🌟🐺

Students from BAE presented on how their experiences are preparing them for the future. Also, students from other departments shared about their participation in programs led by BAE faculty. 👏

09/03/2026

Tucked away off Lake Wheeler Road in Raleigh, North Carolina, researchers are trapping greenhouse gas and turning it into a product with a ready market. 🐺💡

At NC State University’s Compost Facility and Research Cooperative, Pablo Ortiz Paciello, a graduate student in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering’s Biocarbon Utilization and Sequestration (BUS) Lab, is demonstrating a patent-pending technology to capture carbon emissions directly at the compost pile. 💨

Backed by funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Cotton Incorporated, Ortiz’s research and related technology aims to collect carbon dioxide before it can enter the atmosphere — and trap it inside mineral carbonate compounds as a value-added product used to clean wastewater.

Read more at the link below🔗
https://news.ncsu.edu/2026/09/nc-state-researchers-pioneer-new-carbon-capture-technology/

08/28/2026

Biological engineers know how to measure flow in streams, stormwater pipes, wetlands or even in gutters. The units are typically measured in cubic feet per second or liters per second. But what about tiny flows, 1,000 times smaller, that we encounter during our experiments?

Izzy Hedges and Georgia Reichling, rising seniors in Biological and Agricultural Engineering, turned to new technique! They designed a tipping-pipe system inspired by a Japanese Shishi-Odoshi bamboo water fountain!

They 3D printed the parts in Weaver Labs and used the electronics from an old tipping bucket rain gauge to automatically count the number and timing of the tips, and voilà! BAE now has a system to continuously measure tiny flows less than 10 milliliters per second. 🐺💡

The flowmeter is part of a larger project aimed at understanding how denitrification removes nitrate in watersheds. François Birgand, director of BAE graduate programs and professor, is designing lab experiments to understand how natural cleaning processes interact with polluted rainwater before it reaches rivers and streams. 🌊

08/20/2026

Collaboration is key 🐶🤝🐺

This week, BAE students and faculty traveled to Greensboro for the P3-Transdisciplinary Experiential Learning (TEL) Workshop at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University!

The three-day TEL in Food Animal Production Workshop, co-hosted by North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and North Carolina State University, brought students, faculty and researchers together across disciplines to learn by doing.

As part of the larger USDA-NIFA-funded Proactive Pig Production (P3) project, the event highlighted what the team aims to accomplish through hands-on learning. The workshop focused on combining animal science, engineering, environmental management, sensing technologies, and AI while preparing the next generation to address increasingly complex challenges in food animal production.🌱💡

08/20/2026

08/14/2026

In preparation for FDOC, we thought we’d give you a quick tour of our beloved Weaver Labs! ❤️💫 See you next week 😆