We Have A Good Start, But There's A Lot More To Do

It's probably fair to say that we have had some success at reforming ourselves from the agricultural engineering tied to one specific, but important, industry to the biological engineering that is based on a science instead of on an industry. In order to make the change thus far, we have had to contemplate what things we did previously that had prepared us for the reformation, and how biological engineering would be a natural extension of historical trends within agricultural engineering. Some people have embraced the change easily; others still don't see the relevance of biological engineering to their careers. The result is a lot of repetition of the definition of biological engineering at the expense of strategic perspective. It is time to assess our positions regarding what has been accomplished and where future efforts might need to be applied.