Profile

The Department of Biosystems Engineering (IBT) carries out research in automation, system engineering, climate engineering in animal houses, ventilation technique, environmental technique and bio energy. We focus on usage of high technology and on the development of technique for sustainable agriculture.

The app. 50 staff members are organized in two research groups:
Automation and System Engineering
Environment and Climate Engineering
- and in two commercial units, the Biogas Plant in Foulum and the Engineering Centre Bygholm in Horsens.

We co-operate with scientist from the university’s other departments and from other universities in Denmark and abroad. IBT is a very international department with English as the corporate language.

Our research is often carried out in close co-operation with private companies, the research is primary as well as user-oriented. Besides the research itself we are involved in activities like third-party testing of agricultural technical equipment, like fertilizer spreaders and safety tests of tractor cockpits.

The department’s facilities includes among others an automation workshop, laboratories for the testing of climate in animal houses, air physics, odour and bio energy, the world’s largest bio gas plant for scientific purposes and a large fertilizer spreading laboratory for precision agriculture.

The principal responsibility for Master of Biosystems Engineering education rests with IBT. The department plays an active role in other educations at the faculty as well as at the university as a whole. The Master study and the PhD study offer students an exciting course of studies in close co-operations with scientists in an international study environment: 15 nationalities are represented in the department.