Urbana, Illinois
March 20, 2009
Interest in bioenergy and
renewable energy sources continues to increase and now students
can earn a Master of Science degree in bioenergy from the
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at
the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
The new Professional Science Master’s (PSM) degree is a
non-thesis program that allows students to receive training in
bioenergy subjects, while gaining relevant professional
experience in business classes and an internship.
“Bioenergy is an exciting career area, which is part of the new
and emerging bioeconomy. I’m looking forward to working with
students to explore this rapidly changing field of study,” said
Dr. Hans Blaschek, Director of the U of I’s Center for Advanced
BioEnergy Research and student advisor for the Bioenergy PSM.
The bioenergy PSM allows students to choose from four specialty
areas: 1. plants, soils, and feedstocks; 2. bioenergy
production, processing, and use; 3. environment, economics, and
policy & law; 4. bioenergy tools and methods.
Two new classes in bioenergy have been created for University of
Illinois students and will be mandatory for PSM students. Topics
in those classes include agronomics and improvements needed for
crops and biomass feedstocks, land use, biochemical and chemical
processes, use of biofuels, other uses for biomass, applications
of computational tools, such as modeling, simulation and GIS,
environmental impacts and sustainability, energy fundamentals,
economics and legal, political and societal issues.
Prospective students should have a baccalaureate degree in a
recognized field of biological, physical, agricultural,
socio-economic, or engineering science. Check out the website (http://www.bioenergy.uiuc.edu/education/major.html)
for more about admissions requirements.
The bioenergy degree is one of three Professional Science
Master’s degree programs offered at the U of I. The new PSM
degree is a 16-month program consisting of three semesters of
coursework and a summer internship. The other PSM offerings
include: agricultural production and food science and human
nutrition.
For more information about CABER, visit:
http://bioenergy.illinois.edu. |
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