ASABE 2024
Biological Systems Engineering Participates in 2024 ASABE Annual International Meeting (AIM)
This year, the ASABE AIM was held in Anaheim, California on 28-31 July 2024. Several graduate students participated and presented their work in this event. In addition to active participation in several leadership roles (technical committee, technical community, moderation, volunteering, career fair, etc.), BSE faculty and students made 19 oral and 6 poster presentations in different technical sessions within diverse communities. Drs. Manuel Garcia-Perez, Kang Huang, Lav Khot, Manoj Karkee, and Sindhuja Sankaran represented WSU at the AIM.
Dr. Lav Khot and Dr. Manoj Karkee were Guest Speakers in Special Sessions on ‘Agricultural Autonomy’ and ‘Cybersecurity, Social Impacts and Risks of Merging Information Systems’, respectively. Dr. Lav Khot received the Blue Ribbon Award for Ongoing Communication (Take a Deep Dive into Digital Water – Special Issue July/August 2022 Resource Magazine). Dr. Manoj Karkee’s research also received the 2024 ASABE Superior Paper Award (for paper: Xinyang Mu, Magni Hussain, Long He, Paul Heinemann, James Schupp, Manoj Karkee, Minghui Zhu. 2023. An Advanced Robotic System for Precision Chemical Thinning of Apple Blossoms. Journal of the ASABE. 66(5): 1125-1134; doi: 10.13031/ja.15678). Ranjan Sapkota and Kesevan Veloo received third place in Ethics Essay Award and Boyd-Scott Graduate Research Award, respectively. We congratulate the award recipients and appreciate all graduate students and faculty members for their participation and presence at 2024 ASABE AIM.
