Agricultural textbooks

 

AGRICULTURAL / BIORESOURCE / BIOSYSTEMS FOOD ENGINEERING TEXT LIST - 2004                                                                                                                

 

04-Agric-A1 - Applied Plant, Animal, or Human Physiology

Hopkins, W.G. and N.P.A. Huner, Introduction to Plant Physiology. 3rd Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004.

Currie, W.B., Structure and Function of Domestic Animals.  CRC Press, 1992.

 

04-Agric-A2 - Soil Physics and Mechanics

Baver, L.D., W.H. Gardner, and W.R. Gardner, Soil Physics. 4th Edition. John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1972.

Coduto, Donald P., Geotechnical Engineering: Principles and Practices.  Prentice Hall, 1998.

 

04-Agric-A3 - Heat Engineering

Holman, J.P., Heat Transfer. 9th Edition. McGraw-Hill, 2002

04-Agric-A4 - Fluid Flow

White, F.M., Fluid Mechanics. 5th Edition. McGraw-Hill, 2003.

 

04-Agric-A5 - Principles of Instrumentation

Figliola, R.S. and D.E. Beasley, Theory and Design for Mechanical Measurements. 3rd Edition. John Wiley and Sons, 2000.

Henry, Zoerb and Birth, editors, Instrumentation and Measurement for Environmental Sciences.  ASAE, Saint Joseph, MI, 1991.

 

04-Agric-A6 - Physical Properties of Biological Materials and Food Products

Stroshine, R., Physical Properties of Agricultural Materials and Food Products. West Lafayette, IN., Purdue University, 2000.

 

04-Agric-A7 - Chemistry and Microbiology of Foods

Jay, J.M., Modern Food Microbiology. 4th Edition. D. Van Nostrand Co., New York, 1991. deMan, John M., Principles of Food Chemistry.  3rd Edition. Aspen Publication, 1999.

04-Agric-B1 - Systems Engineering and Materials Handling

Meredith, D. D., et al, Design and Planning of Engineering Systems. 2nd edition. Prentice- Hall, 1985.

 

Systems Engineering and Materials:

Henderson, S.M., R.L. Perry and J.H. Young, Principles of Process Engineering. 4th Edition. ASAE Publication, 1997.

 

Environment Control:

Albright, L.D., Environment Control for Animals and Plants, with Computer Applications. ASAE Publication, 1990.

 

 

04-Agric-B2 - Structural Design for Agricultural, Biosystems, and Food Industries

Lindley, J.A. and J. H. Whitaker, Agricultural Buildings and Structures. (Revised Edition). ASAE Publication, St. Joseph, MI, 1996.

 

04-Agric-B3 - Machine Design for Agricultural, Biosystems, and Food Industries

Juvinal, R.C. and K.M. Marshek, Fundamentals of Machine Component Design. Wiley, New York, 2000.

 

04-Agric-B4 - Machinery Analysis for Agricultural, Biosystems, and Food Industries

Srivastava, A.K. et al., Engineering Principles of Agricultural Machines. ASAE, St. Joseph, MI, 1994.

 

04-Agric-B5 - Power Units for Agricultural, Biosystems, and Food Industries

Goering, C.E., M.L. Stone, D.W. Smith, and P.K. Turnquist, Off-Road Vehicle Engineering Principles. ASAE, St. Joseph, MI, 2003.

 

04-Agric-B6 - Irrigation, Drainage, and Erosion Control

Schwab, G.O., D.D. Fangmeier, W.J. Elliot, and R.C. Fravert, Soil and Water Conservation Engineering.  4th Edition. J. Wiley & Sons, 1993.

Smedema & Rycroft, Land Drainage.  Cornell U. Press, 1993.

James, L.G., Principles of Farm Irrigation System Design. Krieger Publishing Company, 1993.

 

04-Agric-B7 - Principles of Hydrology

Ward, A.D. and S.W. Trimble (editors), Environmental Hydrology. 2nd Edition. Lewis Publishers, CRC Press, 2004.

 

04-Agric-B8, B9 - Food Process Engineering (Part 1 & Part 2)

Toledo, R.T., Fundamentals of Food Process Engineering. 2nd Edition. Van Nostrand, Reinhold, New York, 1991.

Singh, R.P. and D.R. Heldman, Introduction to Food Engineering. 3rd Edition. Academic Press, New York, NY, 2001.

Ibarz, Albert and Gustavo V. Barbosa-Cánovas, Unit Operations in Food Engineering. CRC Press Boca Raton, 2003.

 

04-Agric-B10 - Biochemical Engineering (04-Chem-B4)

Bailey, J.E.and D.F. Ollis, Biochemical Engineering Fundamentals, 2nd edition. McGraw- Hill, 1986.

 

04-Agric-B11 – Principles of Waste Management

Peary, H. S., et al, Environmental Engineering.  McGraw-Hill, 1995.

Loehr, R., Pollution Control for Agriculture.  Academic Press, Orlando, USA, 1984.

 

 

04-Agric-B12 - Principles of Biological Waste Treatment

Nazaroff, W.W. and L. Alvarez-Cohen, Environmental Engineering Science. John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 2001.

 

04-Agric-B13 - Control and Monitoring

Gates, S.C., et al., Laboratory Automation using the IBM PC.  Prentice-Hall, 1989.

 

04-Agric-B14 - Aquacultural Engineering

Lawson, Thomas, Fundamentals of Aquacultural Engineering. Chapman & Hall, New York, 1995.

 

04-Agric-B15 – Design of Buildings for Agricultural, Biosystems, and Food Industries

Faherty, Keith and Thomas Williamson, Wood Engineering and Construction Handbook. 3rd edition. McGraw-Hill, 1997.

Lindley, J.A. and J.H. Whitaker, Agricultural Buildings and Structures. Revised Edition. ASAE, St. Joseph, MI, 1996.

Updated: January 2006