Graduate Assistantships

The Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering of Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is seeking graduate students to pursue the Master of Science degree in Biological and Agricultural Engineering or the Ph.D. degree in Biological Engineering or Engineering Science with research in biological and agricultural engineering. Graduate assistantships may be offered to qualifying applicants.

Graduate Research projects may be in the following specialties:

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

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

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

Biomechanical Engineering: mechanization and mechanical systems for human and biological systems

Biotechnology/Bioengineering and Nanotechnology: molecular and cellular engineering, nano-sized drug delivery

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. TOEFL scores are required for students from International schools and whose native language is not English.

Stipend

The departmental assistantship pay starts at $18,000 for M.S. / $21,000 for Ph.D. per 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. Apply to LSU Graduate School

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. Cristina Sabliov, Graduate Coordinator
Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department
141 E. B. Doran Bldg.
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-4505
Email: csabliov@agcenter.lsu.edu

 

Bioprocessing and Bioenergy Engineering:

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

Biosensors/Instrumentation Engineering:

Dr. Chandra Theegala: theegala@lsu.edu
Dr. W. Todd Monroe: tmonroe@lsu.edu

Biomechanical Engineering:

Dr. W. Todd Monroe: tmonroe@lsu.edu
Dr. Kevin Hoffseth: khoffseth@agcenter.lsu.edu

Biomedical Engineering:

Dr. W. Todd Monroe: tmonroe@lsu.edu
Dr. Cristina M. Sabliov: csabliov@agcenter.lsu.edu
Dr. Philip Jung: jjung1@lsu.edu
Dr. Elizabeth Martin: emart93@lsu.edu
Dr. Kevin Hoffseth: khoffseth@agcenter.lsu.edu
Dr. Yongchan Kwon: yckwon@lsu.edu