Take your education beyond the classroom. Apply lessons in real-world situations.
Depending on your major, you might:
- Practice commodities trading or role play as adversaries in natural resource disputes.
- Develop curriculum and create stimulating learning environments for children.
- Grow and multiply plants using techniques from simple stem cuttings to sterile tissue culture.
- Learn to monitor blood for lipids, protein, glucose, and electrolytes.
- Break apart a microbe; identify microbes from a disease culture, and manipulate microbial growth.
- Manufacture and package meat, dairy, and cereal products in on-campus processing facilities.
- Practice using budgeting software for households and businesses.
- Develop a new product and strategy for marketing it.
- Separate strands of DNA, isolate and clone a gene, and fabricate a biological chemical such as insulin.
- Collect data about taste at a state-of-the-art sensory lab.
- Learn to make decisions about the most efficient production methods based on data about climate, available labor, and markets.
- Learn to guide families as they make choices about housing, money, and food and nutrition.
- Wire connections, switches, and motors in the electric power lab.
- Shape and work metal in the welding lab.
- Experiment with fluids — from water pressure to turbine engines — in the power and machinery lab.
- Evaluate consumer products for quality, safety, and value.
- Explore artificial insemination, pregnancy diagnosis, ultrasound technology, drug administration, diagnostic testing, feeding, and milking at the dairy research and teaching center.
- Use state-of-the-art design software in the computing lab.
- Explore cow pregnancy rates and grazing management systems at on-campus animal centers.
- Observe the effects of insects on crop health, and work with innovative water management and irrigation systems at on-campus greenhouses and plant science farms.
- See how engines and food processing equipment work in the machinery lab.
- Plan drainage systems, collect and analyze soil samples, and map waterways with GIS.
- Explore water quality and use in the water resources lab.
- Make renewable energy in the biodiesel and biofuel labs.
- Design controls and switches in the power lab.
- Use computer-aided design technology (CAD) in the computing lab.
- Build instruments that measure biological functions in the biosensors lab.
- Examine body movement and function in the human anatomy and biomechanics lab.
- Understand how electricity flows in the power lab.
- Experiment with how microbes break down hazardous waste in the bioremediation lab.
- Simulate water and pollutant flows in the environment with GIS and GPS.
- Study water pressure in irrigation systems in the irrigation lab.
- Determine moisture retention, aeration, and sedimentation rates in different types of soil.
- Learn how to maximize the value of retail cuts at the meat science laboratory.
- Analyze the hormone composition of blood in the bovine reproductive physiology lab.
- Examine how enzymes break down food in your stomach and intestines.
