ABSTRACT
Biological engineering has often been a point of dissention
within the agricultural engineering profession since the
founding of the American Society of Agricultural
Engineers (ASAE) in 1907. Over the years, the advent of
computers and the decrease in farm population greatly
influenced the agricultural engineering academic pro-
grams, thus changing the perspective of the agricultural
engineering profession. This change is still of importance
among those with an interest in the interface of biology,
agriculture, and engineering. However, the changing of
ASAE’s name to the American Society of Agricultural
and Biological Engineers (ASABE) in 2005 reflected a
decided shift by the large majority of ASAE members
toward not only accepting but embracing biological
engineering.
