Students are instructed in engineering and business principles in preparation as technically competent business persons for professional careers as entrepreneurs, marketing representatives, or plant managers working with service organizations, manufacturers, corporate farms, retail dealers, power suppliers, contractors, or management companies from production through processing and distribution.

Students can specialize in Construction Systems Management; Environmental Systems Management; Mechanization, Marketing, and Technology Management Systems; Production Systems; or Renewable Energy Systems.

This major prepares students as problem solvers for systems involving the application, management, and/or marketing of agricultural engineering technologies.

• Specializations include construction management; mechanization, marketing and technology management systems; environmental systems; and production systems.

• Technical Systems Management students focus on the application of engineering principles, the study of technology used in agriculture, and the integration of business management concepts in the food and agricultural industries.

• Students planning to work in agricultural production or to serve as a manager for production systems select electives that are geared toward crop sciences, animal production, farm management, commodities marketing, and other production-based classes.

• Students interested in environmental protection study soil, air, and water quality, irrigation and drainage, erosion control and the effective utilization of natural resources.

• Career opportunities are vast and varied. TSM graduates can work for major equipment companies, manage a golf course, evaluate new products for a chemical company, or build and race monster trucks.