Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World articles from October 2005

Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World archives from October 2005

2005 Annual International Meeting.(American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Florida's beautiful coastal city of Tampa played host to this year's ASABE Annual International Meeting. The annual meeting is an example of how the engineering community has formed bonds globally. Resource reflects on ASABE's continued...

Mobile fruit-grading robot prototype developed.(Automation Technology)
October 1, 2005... Conventional fruit-grading robots usually work inside a facility where the fruits arrive transported from field to robot for grading. However, fruits are often mixed during harvesting without information saved on where and when the fruits were...

Automated harvester: integrating path planning and closed loop control for steering and speed.(Automation Technology)
October 1, 2005... The main research topics at the Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Hohenheim University, are simulation, control of agricultural machines, and GPS applications. A GPS guidance system for a self-propelled forage harvester was developed in...

AGRIX--an automation system for agricultural implements.(Automation Technology)
October 1, 2005... A generic, configurable, open and smart automation system for agricultural implements is the main research topic of the AGRIX project. The tasks of the project are: architecture of implement controller, configuration of control functions,...

Canal operation automated in Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas.(Automation Technology)
October 1, 2005... Engineers at the Texas Cooperative Extension are undertaking water conservation projects in the Lower Rio Grande Valley to produce water savings and to improve conveyance efficiency. The conveyance efficiency in the region is about 70 percent....

Prototype rice transplanter masters the paddy with machine vision.(Automation Technology)
October 1, 2005... Rice transplanting with a rice transplanter is common practice in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. The surface of a paddy field is a plane, however the plow sole on which the transplanter actually drives is bumpy, and the transplanter's front...

Near-infrared technology: smelling like a rose.(Automation Technology)
October 1, 2005... Historically near-infrared technology (NIRT) has been referred to as the red-headed stepchild on a crowded block of legitimate spectroscopies. That is no longer the case. Today, NIRT walks that same block holding its head high, because it can...

Students excel in international field robot event.(Automation Technology)
October 1, 2005... Earlier this year, Wageningen University organized the third annual field robot event (www.field robot.nl). The main task of robots entered in this global competition was to follow straight and curved rows in a corn crop, make a turn at the...

Dual stereovision application for vehicle guidance and 3D field mapping.(Automation Technology)
October 1, 2005... Navigation of agricultural vehicles and assessment of crop growth status are two representative operations for information-based precision agriculture production. The motivations behind both applications are toward a similar goal--improving...

Fellows inducted at the 2005 Annual International Meeting.(2005 ASAE Annual International Meeting)
October 1, 2005... (Top row, 1 to r): W. Stanley Anthony, supervisory agricultural engineer, research leader, USDA-ARS, Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory, Stoneville, Miss., for outstanding engineering contributions to the cotton industry; Robert O. Evans, P.E.,...

2005 award winners.(2005 ASAE Annual International Meeting)
October 1, 2005... Evelyn E. Rosentreter Standards Award Edwin A. Heys, P.E. For dedication and exemplary leadership in standards development for ASABE, the Society of Automotive Engineers, and the International Standards Organization. Prior to his retirement...

Recognition of ASAE standards developers for 2004.(2005 ASAE Annual International Meeting)
October 1, 2005... The following individuals were recognized for major contributions in the development of standards. Mark Siemens. For ASAE EP291.3, Terminology and Definitions for Soil Tillage and Soil-Tool Relationships. Siemens played a pivotal role in...

2005 Leadership Citations.(2005 ASAE Annual International Meeting)
October 1, 2005... The Leadership Citation recognizes service to ASABE for performance not position. It recognizes service above and beyond the norm. Three recipients were honored for outstanding service to the Society in 2004-2005 and were presented mahogany...

2005 Presidential distinguished service awards.(2005 ASAE Annual International Meeting)
October 1, 2005... Presidential Citations for distinguished service to ASABE were presented to the following by Jerry L. Wille, ASABE president, during the Annual International Meeting. Sharon McKnight and Kelly Sernau. For their tireless enthusiasm and...

Welcome to ASABE's marketing committee.(American Society of Argricultural and Biological Engineering)
October 1, 2005... We engineers claim, with considerable justification, to be the world's greatest problem solvers. I believe that we can also claim to be the world's best communicators. However, our first language is that of mathematics and logic, neither of...

Foundation activities earn $9,705 for ASABE's 100th Anniversary Fund.(American Society of Argricultural and Biological Engineering)
October 1, 2005... The ASABE Foundation offered plenty of activities at this year's meeting. For the eighth year, the silent auction offered a variety of items to bid on. In addition, the Foundation Fun Day provided some friendly competition on the golf course as...

2005 Tampa meeting overview.(2005 ASAE Annual International Meeting)
October 1, 2005... The 2005 Annual International Meeting (AIM) had a great crowd for this 98-year-old event. Many attendees experienced the small, but important, changes in this annual program--from registration materials delivered at the three host hotels, an...

Technical sessions, receptions, awards, networking, and more ... the meeting has something for all!
October 1, 2005... Division poster sessions held in the exhibit hall gave presenters an opportunity to discuss specific research studies with other members. A new format for this year's meeting provided for all poster presentations within each division to be in...

Shown above are the 2005-2006 International Preprofessional Council Officers.
October 1, 2005... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Shown above are the 2005-2006 International Preprofessional Council Officers. From left to right are: Aaron Flouro, President, University of Wisconsin--Madison; Jacob Bolson, First Vice President, Iowa State...

Student Honor Award winners.(PREPROFESSIONALS)
October 1, 2005... Five preprofessionals received 2005 Student Honor Awards at the Annual International Meeting. These awards recognize outstanding scholarship attainment and general participation in student activities. Recipients are elected by their respective...

AGCO National Student Design Competition.(PREPROFESSIONALS)
October 1, 2005... The 2005 winners of the AGCO National Student Design Competition honored at the Annual International Meeting were: First Place: "Acoustic/EMG System for the Analysis of Food Texture" by Brent C. Jessop, Krista L. Sider, and Tom Lee,...

K.K. Barnes winning presentations.(PREPROFESSIONALS)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... First-place winner of the 2005 K.K. Barnes Award was Marsha L. Roberts, Kansas State University, for her presentation, "Effects of Wastewater Application on Poplar Trees." Second place went to Nicolette L. Dudley, Kansas State University,...

G.B. Gunlogson Environmental Student Design Competition.(PREPROFESSIONALS)
October 1, 2005... The 2005 winners of the G.B. Gunlogson Environmental Student Design Competition were: Open Competition First Place: Ohio State University, Brian Henslee, Peter Gehres, Clayton Bettin, Cole Sanford, Aaron Weber, Janell Henry, Melissa...

AEM Student Awards Program.(PREPROFESSIONALS)
October 1, 2005... On July 18, the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) hosted the 68th annual Student Awards Program at the Annual International Meeting in Tampa, Fla. Once again the event was a huge success with 179 attendees celebrating the...

Projects Poster Session winners.(Annual International Meeting)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The Undergraduates Projects Poster Session competition held at the Annual International Meeting gives students an opportunity to present research and design projects to industry representatives, faculty members, and students. Presenters were...

Student Mile winners.(PREPROFESSIONALS)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Winners of the 2005 Student Mile Competition were: Oklahoma State University Engineering Branch for 18,418 miles. There was no recipient for the Mechanization Branch. Student miles are determined by multiplying the number of students...

Alpha Epsilon Awards.(PREPROFESSIONALS)
October 1, 2005... Alpha Epsilon is an honor society for outstanding biological and agricultural engineers. Winners of the 2005 Alpha Epsilon Awards for Outstanding Chapter Award were: First Place: Virginia Tech. Second Place: Oklahoma State...

Council highlights from business meetings in Tampa.(Membership Development Council)(American Society of Argricultural and Biological Engineering)
October 1, 2005... Membership Development Council (MDC) The MDC was instrumental in getting Society bylaws changed to allow two-year institutions to sponsor student engineering and mechanization branches. Until recently, the ASABE bylaws were written in such...

Graduate student research award.(2005 ASAE Annual International Meeting)
October 1, 2005... This award recognizes excellence in the conduct and presentation of research to build the knowledge base needed by engineers who design equipment, facilities, and processes for the sustainable operation of a biological system. Cash prizes were...

Educational aids blue ribbon recipients.(2005 ASAE Annual International Meeting)
October 1, 2005... These awards recognize outstanding effort and achievement in developing noteworthy educational materials. Computer Programs R. L. Tormoehlen, W. E. Field, W. Vollmmer, C. Personett, R. Fox, and S. Bullock, "Gearing Up For Safety." ...

2005 Paper Award winners.(2005 ASAE Annual International Meeting)
October 1, 2005... Papers published by the Society during 2004 are eligible for 2005 Paper Awards. The Paper Awards Committee selects up to 2.5 percent of the published papers for Superior recognition. Another 2.5 percent of the Society's publications earn...

IET meeting Paper Award winners.(institute for the economy in transition)
October 1, 2005... Seung Chul Yoon, Bosoon Park, Kurt Lawrence, and William Windham, "Statistical Modeling of Multispectral Images for Improved Contamination Detection on Poultry Carcasses." K. Monette Hancock and Qin Zhang, "A Hybrid Approach to Hydraulic...

Online mentoring program ready.(2005 ASAE Annual International Meeting)
October 1, 2005... An innovative online mentoring program is now available to all preprofessional/student and young professional members of the Society as a benefit of membership. Young professional members are defined as non-student/preprofessional members aged...

YPC enjoys productive meeting.(Young Professionals Community )(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The Young Professionals Community (YPC) began the 2005 Annual International Meeting with a fun-filled outing to Ybor City. A group of 56 preprofessionals and young professionals took the trolley to the Tampa Improve Comedy Theater and...

Events calendar.(Calendar)
October 1, 2005... ASABE Conferences and International Meetings To receive more information about ASABE conferences and meetings, contact ASABE at 800-371-2723 or mcknight@asabe.org. For the complete list, see www.asabe.org/resource/asabevents.html. 2006...

Automation for bioprocessing and bioproduction: challenges and opportunities.(Last Word)
October 1, 2005... Agricultural mechanization has made remarkable contributions to production of food, materials, and fuels from biomass. Building on the success of agricultural mechanization, automation is expected to make a huge impact on the future...