But times change, and now the study of agriculture has a passe image. The CoA later renamed the agricultural machinery department the Department of Bio-Industrial Mechatronic Engineering, which has expanded into such realms as bioproduction and the monitoring of biosystems. The Department of Agricultural Engineering was also rechristened, and is now Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering.
系所可以分化，但整合不易，農學院只好以改名來扭轉劣勢，譬如將農機系改名為「生物產業機電工程學系」，從農業機具跨足生物生產、生物系統監控與分析等領域；農工系則改為「生物環境系統工程學系」。