The Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Mississippi State University provides students with opportunities to pursue careers in the fields of biomedical engineering, medicine, environmental engineering, and agriculture and natural resources.

Biological engineering is characterized by the application of engineering principles to problems in biological systems. These systems can consist of cells in tissue culture responding to corrosion byproducts, the human body as it reacts to medical implants, synthetic biology - the engineering of biological machines, computational and modeling of biological systems, renewable bio-energy, animals generating solid wastes at animal production facilities, or production and processing of plants in agricultural systems. These problems are multi-disciplinary in nature and present challenges for which biological engineers are uniquely qualified.

The department consistently has attracted some of the top academic students at Mississippi State. The faculty interacts extensively with the undergraduate and graduate students and involves them in many multi-disciplinary projects. More than 6,000 square feet of instructional and research facilities include separate labs for bio-materials corrosion and cell culture, environmental and agricultural studies, bio-mechanical testing, electronic/robotic design fabrication and testing, fiber processing, GPS/GIS, renewable bio-energy, and student computing resources.