Department of Agricultural & Bio-Systems Engineering
Machines, systems and bio-processes that move food from field to shelf.
Placeholder text. The Department of Agricultural & Bio-Systems Engineering designs and evaluates the equipment, structures and systems that underpin post-harvest handling and agro-processing.
Work ranges from low-cost drying and storage technologies for smallholders to bio-process engineering, renewable energy and circular use of agro-industrial waste.
Programmes in this department.
Placeholder message from the Head of Department. Engineering is what turns good agricultural science into food that actually reaches people in good condition.
Our team builds and tests practical technologies — dryers, stores, processing lines and bio-reactors — with the farmers and processors who will use them.
If you are interested in appropriate, affordable engineering for African food systems, this is your department.
Research themes led by this department.
Recent work from this department.
Predictive shelf-life modelling for value-added indigenous foods
How mathematical modelling is helping Ugandan SMEs extend the shelf life of traditional foods without preservatives.
Climate-resilient processing for smallholder value chains
Solar drying, low-energy pasteurisation and circular by-product streams can decarbonise rural agro-processing.
Extrusion technology for instant cereal-legume blends
A twin-screw extrusion protocol turning locally grown grains and pulses into ready-to-eat convenience foods.
Food waste as feedstock: a circular bio-economy roadmap
From brewery spent grain to pineapple peels — a systems view of turning Uganda’s agro-industrial waste into new value.
Lecturers & researchers.
Post-Harvest Engineering
Bio-Process Engineering
Renewable Energy Systems
Instrumentation & Automation