Agricultural and Biorenewable Systems Management Capstone 1

Catalog description

Students in Agricultural and Biorenewable Systems Management learn to apply technology, business, and science to sustainable agricultural and biologically-based product systems development and management. The capstone experience is a two semester, 4th year sequence required of all ABSM students. This course is the Fall component of the sequence and introduces the student to concepts critical for analyzing real-world biorenewable systems. This includes selecting a capstone topic, technical writing review, team building, systems analysis tool application, project proposal development, and proposal presentations. The course also provides iterative writing experiences to enhance the student's ability to create technically sound and grammatically correct reports. At the end of this course, the student will be able to: Write a technically sound ABSM project proposal; be able to function in teams to address a project within the ABSM domain; be able to assess a system and apply appropriate analysis and/or business tools.