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Omaha Public Power District sponsors an annual electric car competition for high school and community college students. The competition took place on Sunday, March 29, on the new track of the Nebraska Tractor Test Lab. 26 teams from across NE took part in the event. The weather? It was perfect! |
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Annual MeetingThe American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) held its annual meeting the week of June 22, 2009, in Reno, Nevada. Several department faculty received recognition. Ron Yoder, Department Head, was elected the ASABE president and also named a Fellow. Rick Stowell and Tami Brown-Brandl along with Richard Gates (Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois) received an ASABE Presidential Citation for their work in supporting an International Livestock Environment Symposium. Tami Brown-Brandl is a member of the Board of Trustees for 2008-2009. Educational Aids Blue Ribbon Awards: Web site: The Nebraska 4-H Robotics and GPS/GIS Year 1 Curriculum Short Publication: Weed Targeting Herbicide Management GNSS Based Auto-Guidance in Agriculture Stormwater Management on Residential Lots Innovative Extension Methods or Impact Assessment: Nebraska Agricultural Water Management Demonstration Network In other awards, Roger Hoy was one of 5 people honored for making major contributions in the development of Standards. He was recognized for his work on the General Safety Standard for Agricultural Tractors in Scraper Applications. The Boyd-Scott Graduate Research Award was presented to our newest faculty member, Deepak Keshwani, for his dissertation on Microwave Pretreatment of Switchgrass for Bioethanol Production. Deepak completed his B.S. and M.S. in our department, and completed his Ph.D. at North Carolina State University. Deepak joins our Mechanized Systems Management and Bioenergy major as an Assistant Professor. Recognition for Alumni The 2009 Nolan Mitchell Young Extension Worker Award was presented to Matthew Helmers. Matt earned his Ph.D. in our department and is an Assistant Professor at Iowa State University. Adel Shirmohammad received a Presidential Citation for his many years of dedicated service to ASABE, most recently as the Chair of the Meetings Council. His leadership led to the development of new ideas for further growth and value of ASABE meetings and conferences for both the Society and attendees. Yanbin Li, a professor in Biological and Agricultural Engineering at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, and a department alumni, was elected as a Fellow. For the first time, our department fielded a team for the ASABE Robotics Competition. In addition to a written report and presentation, the team project was to build and program one or two robots to detect the presence of trees in an artificial forest and to communicate those locations wirelessly to an off-line recording device. Our team placed second overall in the competition.
From left to right: Dr. George Meyer (faculty co-advisor), Dr. Viacheslav Adamchuk (faculty co-advisor), Collin Lutz, Drew Landgraf, and Ahmad Suhaizi Mat Su |
