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Agricultural engineering

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

"Alumni News," Biological Systems Engineering Records

 Collection — Box 001
Identifier: RG-08-07-03
Scope and Contents

This is the newsletter for the Biological Systems Engineering unit of the Department of Agricultural Engineering.

Dates: 1978-1979

Biological Systems Engineering, Records

 Collection — Box 001: [Barcode: R0241100146]
Identifier: RG-08-07-00
Scope and Contents

The collection includes printed materials as well as a history of the UNL Biological Systems Engineering department, which was called Agricultural Engineering before March 1990.

Dates: undated

Director's Files, Biological Systems Engineering Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-08-07-01
Scope and Contents

Director’s files including correspondence, subject files, and budget files for the Department of Agricultural Engineering (now Biological Systems Engineering).

Dates: 1929-1978

Duane Acker, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources Vice-Chancellor Records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-08-04-01
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of Vice Chancellor Duane Acker's subject files, related primarily to the Institute of Agriculture & Natural Resources (IANR).The Acker subject files consist of correspondence, council reports, meeting minutes, and Nebraska drought strategy reports, arranged alphabetically by subject.

Dates: 1974-1975, 1984

History, Biological Systems Engineering Records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-08-07-12
Scope and Contents

The records contain publications and photographs related to the history of the Biological Systems Engineering Department. Significant photograph subjects include Agricultural Engineering class photos, staff and faculty portraits, L.W. Chase Hall, Energy Farm (Mead, Nebraska), Nebraska Tractor Test Lab, and Tractor Power and Safety Day.

Dates: 1904-1994

Leonard G. Schoenleber, Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0141
Scope and Contents

Papers of Leonard G Schoenleber

Dates: 1956-1982

Nebraska in Turkey Chief Advisor, International Programs Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-44-05-02
Scope and Contents

Relating to programs the University of Nebraska conducted with Ataturk and Ankara universities in Turkey, the records include correspondence, subject files, minutes, reports, faculty information, and two photographs.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1955-1968

Photographs, Agricultural Communications Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-08-16-06
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of several thousand photographic prints, negatives, glass plate negatives, and lantern slides.  In most cases the prints and negatives are identified by number and subject.  The dates are usually not included.  The images relate to various activities of the faculty, staff, and students of the College of Agriculture, Agricultural Extension Service, and Experiment Station. 

Dates: 1930-1989

Photographs, Agricultural Extension Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-11-08-00
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of photographic prints and negatives related to agricultural extension.  The images show locations in Lincoln and other areas in Nebraska.  Many images related to agricultural engineering as well as general agricultural work.  The collection has been retained in the alphabetical order in which it was received.  An additional inventory is available.

Dates: 1910-1950

Photographs, Biological Systems Engineering Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-08-07-06
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of photographic negatives, prints, slides, and films from the Agricultural Engineering Department.  Included are images of agricultural machinery, livestock, crops, vehicles, infrastructure, farm outbuildings and other buildings, building materials, and landscape modifications.

Dates: 1915-1956, undated

Reports, Biological Systems Engineering Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: RG-08-07-02
Scope and Contents

The collection consists agricultural engineering project reports from 1906-1962.

Dates: 1906-1962

Wayne E. Thurman, Military Autobiography

 Collection
Identifier: MS-0471
Scope and Contents

Thurman's self-published his autobiography, titled Wayne E. Thurman: His Life and Military Service, in 2009. Thurman writes about growing up on a farm near Oconto, Nebraska, his experience as an agricultural engineer and Reserved Officer Training Corp (ROTC) student at the University of Nebraska (1930-1936), and his service in the United States Air Force during World War II.

Dates: 2009