Linus Opara: Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman

Joel Cuello: University of Arizona

Special Issue I

a) Agricultural Engineering and the Emergence of Biological Engineering

M.S.Wald: Editorial

L.U.Opara and J.L.Cuello: Guest Editorial

	A.T.Johnson	The Making of a New Discipline

	N.R.Scott	DNA of Biological Engineering: An Engineering Discipline

	R.E.Young	Comparison of ‘Bio’ type Engineering Undergraduate Curricula from Agricultural, Medical and Chemical Origins

	R.E.Young	The ‘Bio’- type Engineering Name Game

	J.L.Cuello	‘Engineering to Biology’ and ‘Biology to Engineering’: The Bi- Directional Connection Between Engineering and Biology in Biological Engineering Design

	J.L.Cuello	The Descent of Biological Engineering

	B.Y.Tao,D.K.Allen and M.Okos	The Evolution of Biological Engineering

	J.L.Rickus	Building an Integrated Undergraduate Biological Engineering Program in an Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department incorporating Student Perspective

	L.U.Opara, S.Aldawi and T.Shukeiri	Students’ Perceptions of the Public Image of Agricultural Engineering and their Preferred Name for the Discipline and Degree Title

b)Agricultural Engineering Education in Developing and Transitional Countries

	G.Wall	Agricultural Engineering Education in Developing and Transition Countries

	A.Senzanje,N.Moyo and I.Samakande	Relevance of Agricultural Engineering Education against the Background of a Changing World- the Case of Southern Africa

	S.Fernando,S.Bhushan and M.Naveen	The Need to reform Agricultural Engineering Education in Developing Countries

	Y.Tekin,R.Arslan and Y.Ulusoy	Agricultural Machinery Education in Turkey

	J.C.Smithers	Challenges for Bioresources Engineering Education in South Africa

Papers in Engineering Education Research, Assessment, Design theory, Mechanical Engineering,

Biomechanics, Chemical Engineering, Electrical and Control Engineering

	D.Fraser,S.Allison,H.Coombes,J.Case and C.Linder	Using Variation to Enhance Learning in Engineering

	M.Ogot and G.E.Okudan	Integrating Systematic Creativity into First- Year Engineering Design Curriculum

	D.Chadha and G.Nicholls	Teaching Transferable Skills to Undergraduate Engineering Students: Recognising the Value of embedded and Bolt- on Approaches

	T.J.Brumm,L.F.Hanneman ands.K.Mickelson	Assessing and Developing Program Outcomes through Workplace competencies

	L.W.Lackey and W.J.Lackey	Grade Inflation: Potential Causes and Solutions

	A.Bejan and S.Lorente	Design with Constructal Theory

	G.A.K.Padmaperuma, S.Ilanko and D. T.Chen	Opportunities and Challenges in Instructional Design for Teaching the Flexure Formula using a Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

	A.Sweeney, P.Vaidyanathan and S.Seal	Undergraduate Research and Education in Nanotechnology

	E.M.Steichen, A.Bhandari, S.L.Hutchinson, L.N.Reddy, D.Steward and L.E.Erickson	Improving Interdisciplinary Geoenvironmental Engineering Education through Empowerment Evaluation

	C.C.Scott, T.Volz and K.A.Athanasiou	Learning how to Teach continuum Biomechanics: See One, Do One,Teach One

	L.M.Madeira,A.Mendes and F.D.Magahaes	Teaching Laminar Flow Reactors: From Experimentation to CFD Simulation

	M.Gokbulut and A.Tekin	An Educational Tool for Neural Network Control of Brushless DC Motors

	J.A.Mendez, S.Torres, ,L.Acosta, and M.Sigut and L.Moreno	A Control Engineering Laboratory Based on a Low Cost Linear Plant