The Biosystems Engineering & Soil Science programs are housed in modern facilities on UT’s West Campus. We occupy or share three buildings locally, and have a presence at the West Tennessee Research & Education Center. In addition, we conduct research at a network of Research & Education Centers around the state. Four of these are outdoor facilities within 15 miles of campus that supplement classroom teaching.
Contains classrooms, labs, graduate student offices and meeting facilities. Several computer labs are available in this building for students. Specialized laboratories are available for teaching and research activities in the areas of hydraulics, water quality analysis, power and machinery, environmental bioprocessing, food engineering, and electric power and processing.
Contains the main office, mailroom, many faculty offices of Extension specialists, and some graduate student offices.
Contains the main office, mailroom, many faculty offices of Extension specialists, and some graduate student offices.
Additional Faculty offices, graduate offices, teaching and research laboratories and classrooms.
Faculty offices and field research space.
Library resources are a very important part of our facilities. UT’s state-of-the-art Hodges Library is one of the most comprehensive facilities in the South. In addition to Hodges, the Pendergrass Ag-Vet Library is only a few steps from BESS.The Library has more than 100,000 volumes of material on agricultural and environmental topics.