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BSYSE 512 Poster Competition Winners

First Place:       Prashant Pokhrel (avg score 81.3) Second Place:  Muhammad Khan (avg score 80.8) Third Place:     Jose Martinez Fernandez (avg score 79.8) Congratulations to Prashant, Muhammad, and Jose for your exceptional poster presentations, and to the whole class for your good effort!

Biofuel technology goes mobile

WSU On Solid Ground | June 2014 If you’ve ever enjoyed the summertime taste of fish, chicken or steak grilled over charcoal, you have benefited from pyrolysis. The very same technology that produces charcoal is also a cornerstone for making the vision of a commercial, wood-based biofuels industry in the Pacific Northwest a reality. Scientists […]

ASABE Conference Research Award

Congratulations to Jingjin Zhang! “I am very happy to announce that your paper entry to the Boyd-Scott Graduation Research Award competition was selected as one of the top three papers judged in the written portion of the PH.D. category competition.” An oral competition will follow this July in Montreal, Canada. Carol L. Flautt, Awards Administrator, […]

Congratulations, Regents Professor!

Dear CAHNRS Faculty and Staff Colleagues: On behalf of the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences I take great pride in congratulating our own Professor Juming Tang for his promotion to the rank of Regents Professor and Scientist in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering effective July 1, 2014. The promotion to Regents Professor recognizes […]

New Technology Improves Food Safety and Flavor

On Solid Ground | Feb 12, 2014 A new technology that is now available to food companies can increase the consumer appeal of chilled or frozen meals sold in retail markets while reducing the chance of contamination. A group of engineers led by Dr. Juming Tang, distinguished chair of Food Engineering and associate chair of Biological […]

Peas in disguise may increase nutrition

The Daily Evergreen |  Feb 5, 2014 The princess who felt a pea through 20 mattresses would have a hard time even tasting the peas used in Shyam S. Sablani’s food engineering research project. That’s because Sablani’s peas have been reduced to a fine powder of microscopic pea proteins that could help people get more […]

ASABE 2014 Fellow

Congratulations to Dr. Juming Tang. He has been selected by the M-131 Fellow committee, and elected by the ASABE Board of Trustees to the Grade of ASABE Fellow. This is an honorary status to which members of distinction may not apply but must be elected. This action reflects the high regard you are held by members […]

Graduate Student Award

Soil Science Society of America | Congratulations to Mr. Hossein Sadeghi as the recipient of the 2013 Graduate Student Award! Hossein is a Ph.D. candidate at Washington State University under the direction of Dr. Troy Peters in the Biological Systems Engineering Department. Hossein has been described by his advisor as “a brilliant and productive Ph.D. […]