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History book chronicles 130-year evolution of agricultural engineering at WSU
November 29, 2022 | WSU Insider
As Washington agriculture changed over the last century, so too did teaching and research in agricultural engineering at Washington State University.That evolution is chronicled in detail in a recently published, 218-page history, “Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering at Washington State University: More than 100 Years Committed to Building a Better and More Sustainable Agriculture.”
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2022
- History book chronicles 130-year evolution of agricultural engineering at WSU
- WSU’s Lav Khot, colleagues receive multi-state award for ag drone research
- Juming Tang inducted into the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) 2021 Class of Fellows
- Mark Schrader places in the ASABE Oral/Poster Competition at ASABE 2022
- Behnaz Molaei places in the ASABE Oral/Poster Competition at ASABE 2022
- Sustainable Jet Fuel Based on Lignin
- BSE Departmental Retreat – Satuday, August 6th, 2022
- Sindhuja Sankaran honored by CAHNRS with early career excellence award
- Drones and bird pests
- Welcome Marcelo Martinez as a permanent BSE Office staff member
- Lignin-based jet fuel packs more power for less pollution
- WSU Flower Thinning Robot
- Welcome Nina Willis as a permanent BSE Office staff member
- Behnaz Molaei receives the AFW’s Karen P. Depauw Leadership Award
- Behnaz Molaei receives Graduate Student Leadership Award from CAHNRS Academic Programs
- Three Minute Thesis – Uddhav Bhattarai wins the CAHNRS PhD Competition
- Behnaz Molaei receives the GPSA College Representative of the Year Award
- Dr. Shulin Chen Receives Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award
2021
- Uddhav Bhattarai is a finalist for best oral presentation at ASABE 2021
- Legacy of leadership and mentorship for retiring professor – Claudio Stockle
- Behnaz Molaei is a 2021 Irrigation Foundation E3 Winner
- Research Week Celebrates Outstanding Faculty and Staff – Juming Tang
- Research Week Celebrates Outstanding Faculty and Staff – Manoj Karkee
- Residents Hope to Prevent Wildfire With BioChar
- Fitria Fnu is working with PNNL researchers to develop sensors that detect refrigerant leaks in air-conditioners.
- WSU to lead national AI research institute for agriculture
- Lav Khot named to 40 Under 40 Class of 2021
- WSU summer undergraduate research featured at virtual symposia
- Consumers will pay more for ready‑to‑eat meals made with fewer ingredients
- Lav Khot to lead WSU’s AgWeatherNet
- Abhilash Chandel wins CAHNRS Graduate Student Leadership Award
- FEC Club wins the 2021 GPSA Excellence Award for Registered Student Organizations (RSO)
- International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) Honors Dr. Shyam Sablani
- Three Minute Thesis – Femi Peter Alege wins second place overall in the WSU wide competition
- Three Minute Thesis – Femi Peter Alege wins the CAHNRS PhD Competition
- Raspberry muffins may be in your future
- Juming Tang elected to the National Academy of Engineering
2020
- Pilot project turns corn waste into jet fuel
- New chair encourages discoveries in Biological Systems Engineering
- Qin Zhang elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences
- New biojet fuel could be a viable alternative to fossil fuel
- WSU researchers join $9.8M project to study low-moisture food safety
- Robotic crop pollination awarded $1 million grant
- India partnership spurs development of new WSU microwave technology for safer meals
2019
- Satellites show promise as tool for monitoring crop development
- Spray, without the sprayer – Taking air out of the equation
- Getting mac and cheese to Mars
- Dr. Tang is a winner of IAEF Lifetime Achievement Award
- Recent election to identify FED Rep/Representative-elect to the International Association for Engineering and Food (IAEF)
- Adding Washington State to the California-Dutch AgFoodTech
- Who are you going to call? Rotbusters!
- New global fellowship program grows discoveries, partnerships in ag research
- WSU’s Ag Tech Day – 1:30-6:00 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 22, in Prosser, Washington.
- Juming Tang elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences
- Let us bring demand into the equation
- Precision pruning can help machines safely, efficiently harvest apples
- Dr. Hanwu Lei Featured by USDA NIFA
- Plastic water bottles may one day fly people cross-country
- Satellites and Drones Search for Better Wheat Varieties to Feed the World
- Artificial intelligence and precision farming: does efficiency mean sustainability?
- Western Innovator: From Nepal to Robotic Pioneer
- 2019 ASABE Superior Paper Award – Congratulations!
- 2019 PSIFT Student Achievement Awards
- Indonesian Fulbright Scholar studying biofuels at WSU Tri-Cities, PNNL
- Spray Researchers Aim to Catch Their Drift
- BSE Graduate Students win Best Graduate Poster Award at the 2019 BioAg Symposium
- Researcher finds alternatives to pesticides
- Online publication labels professor as AI trailblazer
- Lav Khot Named New Innovator in Food and Agriculture
- BSE Faculty Bin Yang Receives Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award
2018
- BSE Faculty Manoj Karkee Named 2019 Pioneer in AI and IoT
- Graduate Students Selected for PNNL-WSU Distinguished Graduate Research Program
- Graduate Student Wins IFT Poster Competition Award
- Graduate Student wins Award in Soil and Water Management and Conservation
- Agricultural robots combine future, farming practices
- Graduate Student Selected as Irrigation Foundation E3 Winner
- WSU, Australian scientists partner to form Joint Center for Ag Robotics
- BSE Faculty Receive USDA-NIFA Funding to Study Water Use
- Research Corner: Dr. Manuel Garcia-Pérez
- Technology for Trade
- BSE Faculty Receive 2018 WSDA Specialty Crop Block Grant Awards
- Researchers collaborate with youth for science fair projects, encourage interest in STEM
- WSU’s apple picking machine provides potential for future orchard operations
- BSE Faculty and Students Attend ASABE 2018 – Student Wins First Place Award
- Food Engineering Students, Graduates, & Faculty Attend IFT 2018
- WSU Microwave Technology Featured in Harvard Business Review Article
- Effects of Sugars, Furans, and their Derivatives on Hydrodeoxygenation of Biorefinery Lignin‐Rich Wastes to Hydrocarbons
- WSU researchers creating catalyst to improve jet biofuel production
- FEC Club Visits Pacific Foods
- Waled Suliman Receives 2018 Amazon Catalyst Grant
- “BeeToxx” Receives Awards at the UW Business Plan Competition
- Commencement May 2018
- “BeeToxx” Receives Awards at WSU Business Plan Competition
- Chongyuan Zhang receives 2018 Ann Chittenden Holland Master’s Thesis Award for Graduate Student Excellence
- BSE Faculty Receive Awards
- WSU precision agriculture program ranked in top 25 in world
- WSU researchers develop material that could save honey bees
- GPSA Award of Excellence
- Center of Excellence for Food Safety receives $1M Grant Continuation from USDA NIFA
- Police, scientists, hope to use drones for innovation
- “BeeToxx” Receives Second Place at the Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge
- Dr. Juming Tang Receives Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award
- WSU Among the Winners
- Biofuels Digest Features WSU Jet Fuel Research
- Dr. Karkee’s lab funded
2017
- Unplugging the Cellulose Biofuel Bottleneck
- Pamphlet – Extension and Rural Education Subgroup – Land Grant University Colombia Consortium
- Collaboration with Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University in China
- IFT Program of the Month
- WSU secures more than $1.5 million for specialty crop research
- Dr. Lav Khot
- Cellulosic Revelation
- CSANR, BSE researchers seek sites to grow tomorrow’s produce
- WSU Faculty, Dr. Lav Khot, Presents at 2017 APS Annual Meeting in San Antonio
- Biological Systems Engineering supports international meeting
- BSysE 512 – Poster Competition Awards
- WSU Research Gets Closer to Cost-Effective BioFuels
- WSU Tri-Cities team earns CleanTech Big Picture prize at UW business competition
- WAVE Minute: AgWeatherNet & Grape Growers
- WSU Tri-Cities team in UW business competition ‘sweet 16’
- New model forecasts grapevine bud break, bloom and veraison
- Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge
- New way to characterize cellulose, advance bioproducts
- Predicting Phenology: A New Tool from AgWeatherNet
- Washington State Professor Finds Sky-high Opportunities for Drones in Agriculture
- Youth get hands-on lessons in biofuels, food engineering, robotics
- Plant biologists welcome their robot overlords
- Highly Cited Research
2016
- Agtech: Higher yields, lower costs, better environmental protection
- Gap fund awards help get WSU innovations to market
- BSysE 598 Graduate Seminar Awards
- Grant funds test of market potential for jet fuel research
- Sophisticated presentations in Spanish
- Dr. Sankaran Presents at Inaugural Event
- Protecting our food system in a changing climate
- Grant Helps Farmers Use Smart Phones to Save Water
- Dr. Melba Salazar – AgWeatherNet Video Series
- Peter’s Water-Saving Project Featured in Press
- International Spotlight on Juming Tang
- Student represents U.S. at sustainable chemistry school
- Student works to boost renewable energy in Philippines
- Student Wins First Place
- WSU faculty member presents at National Advance Biofuels Conference and Expo
- Spotlight on Lignin
- Dr. Hanwu Lei and his research group featured in a top journal
- Aug. 14-17: Global look at agricultural robots, automation
- ASABE Student Mile Award
- Boyd-Scott Graduate Research Award 2016
- Drone captures vineyard irrigation data
- DJI, WSU to partner on ag drone research, education
- Ph.D. student earns international prize for heat research
- PSIFT Winners
- WSU researchers aim to make farming more efficient
- $11M funds food safety center, tech transfer to markets
- Research Team Competes for Prize
- SURCA 2016
- BSYSE Ph.D. student wins CAHNRS competition
- WSU Faculty, Shyam Sablani, wins IFT Achievement Award
- WSU Faculty wins IFT Achievement Award
- Developing technologies that will change agriculture
- Collaboration Spotlight: Lav Khot
- Robots Picking Apples
2015
- Outstanding NRES Student Presentations Delivered
- Phenotyping in the field goes high-tech
- Biowaste-to-jet fuel
- Graduate Seminar Awards
- Research for specialty crops boosted by $1.7 million
- Research to be presented at 2015 AIChE Annual Meeting
- Doctoral student travels from China to study biofuels pretreatment technology
- Student Awards
- Seligman APV Travel Bursary Recipient, Ellen Bornhorst, Reports from Quebec
- WSU tests unmanned helicopter to dry cherries
- Video: Unmanned helicopter tested for rainwater removal
- Grad student wins ASABE conference paper competition
- WSU engineers, scientists prepare to test apple-picking robot
- NSF Conference Grant Awarded
- Doctoral Student Places First in Poster Competition
- WSU Tri-Cities Announces Student Research Grants
- Congratulations PSIFT Scholarship Winners
- Sensor Data Improves Cherry Production
- Tri-Cities Student Selected for Sustainable Energy Program
- Student Awards
- Researchers produce jet fuel compounds from fungus
- Global Case Competition
- Cuts to Manure Gas Earns Student Kudos
- Warmest winter since 1992
- Robots Picking Apples
- Roving cameras see the big picture for wheat breeding
- WSU Tri-Cities prof receives grant to study high-energy biofuels
2014
- Student Earns Top International Sustainability Prize
- Early Career Award
- 2014 ASABE and CSBE | SCGAB Annual International Meeting
- BSYSE 512 Poster Competition Winners
- Biofuel technology goes mobile
- ASABE Conference Research Award
- Studying Termites to Achieve Better Biofuel
- Congratulations, Regents Professor!
- New Technology Improves Food Safety and Flavor
- Peas in disguise may increase nutrition
- ASABE 2014 Fellow
- 2014 Outstanding Graduate Student Awards
2013
2012
- WSU Trains Philippine Executives in Food Safety Management
- BSysE students Win Poster Competition
- Juming Tang Radio Frequency Research featured article in WSUToday
- Wenjia Zhang wins 1st place poster award at IMPI 46
- CougsCARE design team places second in Hydrogen Education Foundation Competition
- Juming Tang recipient of 2012 ASABE International Food Engineering Award
- BSysE Students Win PLACE Student Packaging Design Competition