Bioenvironmental Engineering: animal waste management, water quality, subsurface water management, hydrology, and irrigation

Bioprocessing Engineering: value-added processing, and byproducts utilization of Louisiana commodities

Biosensors and Instrumentation and Bioenergy: sensing and measurement systems for site-specific farming, animal and biological systems

Biomechanical Engineering: mechanization and mechanical systems for plant, animal, aquaculture, and biological systems

Biotechnology/Bioengineering: molecular and cellular engineering

Assistantship Duties and Responsibilities:

Duties and responsibilities of a research assistant will include conducting research under the direction of a departmental faculty member while working towards an advanced degree in the Biological and Agricultural Engineering department, and may include assisting with teaching labs and grading papers.

Qualifications:

Applicant should have a B.S. degree from an ABET accredited program in biological engineering, agricultural engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, biomechanics engineering, aquacultural engineering or related engineering discipline. Applicants with a Masters degree may also apply for the Ph.D. program. GRE scores are required for all applicants and TOEFL scores are required for students from International schools and whose native language is not English.

Stipend:

The assistantship pay starts at $14,000 for fiscal year for students with a B.S. Higher stipends from the department and supplemental stipends from the Graduate School are also available to students with high GRE scores and GPA.

Application Deadlines:

March 15th and October 15th

Application:

An LSU Graduate School application is required. Initial contact should be made with the department at the following address. Faculty members may also be contacted. A resume, transcript and a list of three references are required:

Dr. Steven Hall, Graduate Advisor
Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-4505
Email: Shall@agcenter.lsu.edu

Bioenvironmental Engineering:

Dr. Richard L. Bengtson: RBengtson@agcenter.lsu.edu
Dr. John W. Branch: BBranch@agcenter.lsu.edu
Dr. Steven G. Hall: shall5@lsu.edu
Dr. Daniel L. Thomas: thomasdl@lsu.edu

Bioprocessing Engineering:

Dr. Dorin Boldor: dboldor@lsu.edu
Dr. Marybeth Lima: mlima1@lsu.edu
Dr. Cristina M. Sabliov: csabliov@lsu.edu
Dr. Chandra Theegala: theegala@lsu.edu

Biosensors/Instrumentation and Bioenergy:

Dr. Steven G. Hall: shall5@lsu.edu
Dr. Michael Mailander: MMailander@agcenter.lsu.edu
Dr. Chandra Theegala: theegala@lsu.edu

Biomechanical Engineering:

Dr. Roberto N. Barbosa: RBarbosa@agcenter.lsu.edu
Dr. D. Keith Morris: kmorris@lsu.edu

Biotechnology/Bioengineering:

Dr. Dan Hayes: dhayes@agcenter.lsu.edu
Dr. W. Todd Monroe: tmonroe@lsu.edu
Dr. Cristina M. Sabliov: csabliov@lsu.edu