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Program checklist · Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus · University Park, PA

A checklist is the list of requirements to complete this program and receive the award, as the college publishes it in its catalog. It is the same for everyone. It does not say what you have completed; that comes from applying your own record.

Program
Award
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Total credits (published)
30
Credits (computed from items)
53-55
Catalog edition
2026
Checklist type
degree-program
Identifiers
IPEDS UNITID
214777
CourseShelf checklist
CK_214777_4f76d149
CollegeTransfer.Net
Institution Transfer Profile
Source
CourseShelf publish 59

Requirements to complete

Every course or condition the catalog lists, in the catalog's order.

Master of science (M.S.)

7 items
  1. ABE 500
    Research Methods
    Not resolved to a course
    3
  2. BRS 502
    Human Behavior and ethics in Management and Technology (or other Ethics course from a list of approved courses maintained by the program office.)
    Not resolved to a course
    3
  3. One 500-level STAT course
    Not resolved to a course
    3
  4. ABE 590
    Colloquium (1 credit per semester for 3 semesters)
    Not resolved to a course
    3
  5. Additional 400-level BE courses (limit 3 credits), 500-level or 800-level ABE courses
    Not resolved to a course
    6
  6. ABE 600
    Thesis Research
    Not resolved to a course
    6
  7. Additional 400, 500, or 800-level courses or ABE 600 Thesis Research
    Not resolved to a course
    6

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

7 items
  1. ABE 500
    Research Methods (unless previously taken)
    Not resolved to a course
    3
  2. BRS 502
    Human Behavior and ethics in Management and Technology (or other ethics course from a list of approved courses maintained by the program office, unless previously taken)
    Not resolved to a course
    3
  3. ABE 590
    Colloquium (1 credit per semester for 4 semesters)
    Not resolved to a course
    4
  4. 500 and/or 800-level ABE courses (excluding ABE 500, 590-596) 1
    Not resolved to a course
    6
  5. EDCE 530
    Teaching and Learning in Agricultural Science (B grade minimum) 2
    Not resolved to a course
    3
  6. ABE 602
    Supervised Experience in College Teaching
    Not resolved to a course
    1-3
  7. Communications 2
    Not resolved to a course
    3

Additional course work as approved by the Ph.D. Committee

0 items
    Source. Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus, catalog 2026 — https://bulletins.psu.edu/graduate/programs/majors/agricultural-biological-engineering/. Captured page pages/0431.html.gz. Assembled from the institution's published catalog as captured; every record names its captured page and source URL. Assembled, not asserted.