Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World articles from September 2008

Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World archives from September 2008

"To the people who are engineering the future of our planet ...".(FROM THE President)
September 1, 2008... I am writing this column as I unwind from our Annual International Meeting in Providence, R.I. More than 1,500 enthusiastic engineers and technologists representing more than 30 nations attended the meeting. Several things struck me about it....

Events calendar.(American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers)(Calendar)
September 1, 2008... ASABE conferences and international meetings To receive more information about ASABE conferences and meetings, call ASABE at (800) 371-2734 or e-mail mtgs@asabe.org. ASABE conferences and international meetings 2008 ...

U.S. specialty crops at a crossroad: hi-tech or else?
September 1, 2008... Numerous U.S. specialty crops are facing growing domestic and global market pressures that threaten their long-term viability. For instance, Brazilian citrus growers can produce, process, and ship juice to Floridian markets cheaper than Florida...

Standards review, standards bearers.
September 1, 2008... As ASABE members, most of us are very familiar with engineering standards because we frequently use them to guide us through the design process. According to the American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM), "A standard is a common language...

Biobased products.(ENERGY ISSUES Series)
September 1, 2008... Achieving greater energy security for the United States and the rest of the word means utilizing multiple approaches. In the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), giving greater visibility and relevance to biobased products has been...

Integrated Biomass Supply and Logistics: a modeling environment for designing feedstock supply systems for biofuel production.
September 1, 2008... Agricultural feedstocks for biofuel production are typically characterized by a wide spatial distribution of available biomass, time- and weather-sensitive crop maturity, variable moisture content, low bulk density, and a short harvest window....

2008 Annual International Meeting.(American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers)
September 1, 2008... Convening just a head of the U.S. Independence Day celebration, in a historic city known for its embrace of religious and cultural diversity, ASABE's 2008 Annual International Meeting, in Providence, R.I., drew more than 1,500 attendees from...

Earthworms and E. coli: a perilous combination for drain flow water quality.
September 1, 2008... Researchers at Oklahoma State University (OSU), Iowa State University (ISU), and the USDA-ARS National Soil Tilth Laboratory (NSTL) have formed a unique research team to solve an important water quality problem. This team is addressing the...

A new generation of farm-based Anaerobic digesters: engineers at Michigan State University's Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering are retooling an old technology to become a viable part of odor control, nutrient management, and a sustainable energy system in Michigan.
September 1, 2008... Anaerobic digesters (ADs) have been successfully used to generate energy since 1857. The first AD was built in a leper colony in India in that year. They first appeared in the United States in the 1970s in response to complaints about odor...

Ethanol coproducts eyed as fillers in plastics: ASABE member conducts "non-petroleum-based" research.(UPDATE AUGUST 2008)
September 1, 2008... A coproduct of ethanol production could be used as a non-petroleum-based filler in plastics, based on preliminary studies by the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and their cooperators. The ethanol coproduct, called...

"Be a professional-be licensed! Take the agricultural engineering PE exam.(LAST WORD)
September 1, 2008... Did you know that only 16 percent of the 485 agriculture-degreed engineers who registered to take the professional engineering exam took the agricultural engineering PE exam administered from October 2005 through October 2007? You may be...