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'''Agricultural engineers''' apply engineering science and technology to agricultural production and processing, and to the management of natural resources. The first curriculum in Agricultural Engineering was established at Iowa State University by J. B. Davidson in 1905. The American Society of Agricultural Engineering was founded in 1907.

Agricultural engineers [[design]] agricultural [[machinery]], [[equipment]], and agricultural [[structures]]. Agricultural Engineers may perform tasks as planning, supervising and managing the building of dairy effluent schemes, [[irrigation]], [[drainage]], [[flood]] and water control systems, perform [[environmental impact assessment]]s and interpret research results and implement relevant practices.

Some specialties include power systems and machinery design; structures and [[environmental science]]; and food and [[bioprocess]] engineering. They develop ways to conserve [[soil]] and [[water]] and to improve the [[processing]] of agricultural, food, and biorenewable products.

A large percentage of agricultural engineers work in academia or for government agencies such as the [[United States Department of Agriculture]] or state [[agricultural extension]] services. Many are employed by manufacturers of agricultural machinery and equipment. Agricultural engineers work in production, sales, [[management]], [[research]] and development, or [[applied science]].

==See also==
*[[American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers]] (ASABE)

==Further reading==
* Field, H. L., Solie, J. B., & Roth, L. O. (2007). ''Introduction to agricultural engineering technology a problem solving approach''. New York: Springer. ISBN 0387369139.

==External links==
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*[http://www.asabe.org American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Official Site]
*[http://www.asabe.org/membership/students/intlacademic.html International Academic Programs in Agricultural, Food,or Biological Engineering]
*[http://www.egr.msu.edu/age Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering-Michigan State University]
*[http://www.abe.iastate.edu/ Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Department-Iowa State University]
*[http://www.caefs.zju.edu.cn/en/index.asp/ School of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science -Zhejiang University, China]

==See AE Education in Indonesia==
Study Program of Agricultural Engineering, Department of Agricultural Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, Mataram University, Lombok, Indonesia.

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