建立生物系统工程学科的探索

系统论述了国际农业工程学科向农业与生物系统工程学科方向拓展的趋势和在农业工程一级学科下设立生物系统工程二级学科的必要性，描述了生物系统工程学科的定义、主要研究内容、人才培养目标和预期就业前景。认为设立生物系统工程二级学科是社会经济发展的客观要求，也符合国际农业工程学科发展的主流方向和前沿方向，将有利于拓宽农业工程学科的发展空间，加强工程技术和生命科学知识的交叉渗透，促进中国农业工程学科向农业与生物系统工程学科的转变。

Establishment of biosystems engineering program

With the development of society, economy, science and technology, there is a great demand for the advanced talents majored in biosystems engineering, who have both the life science background and the engineering technology background. The international tendency that the agricultural engineering discipline was extended to agricultural and biosystems engineering discipline, and the necessity to constitute the biosystems engineering program under agricultural engineering discipline were discussed. The definition, focusing research areas, training objectives, and employment prospect were formulated. It was concluded that the establishment of biosystems engineering program was the objective demand of the development of society, economy, science and technology, was in accordance with international mainstream and forefront development tendency of agricultural engineering discipline, would be favorable to expanding the agricultural engineering discipline, enhancing the crossing and infiltrating between engineering technology and life science, boosting the converting of agricultural engineering discipline to agricultural and biosystems engineering discipline in our country, and helping the agricultural engineers in our country to follow and catch up with the development of international agricultural engineering technology.