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Graduate Student Selected as Irrigation Foundation E3 Winner
October 15, 2018 | Pullman, WA
Abdelmoneim Mohamed, a graduate student in the Land, Air, Water Resources & Environmental Engineering (LAWREE) emphasis area of Biological Systems Engineering has been selected as a Irrigation E3 winner by the Irrigation Foundation. Led by advisor, Dr. Troy Peters, Abdelmoneim will travel to the Irrigation Show and Education Conference which will take place December 3-7, 2018 in Long Beach, California.
More information can be found on the Irrigation Show and Education Conference’s Website.
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2018
- 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
- 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
- Chongyuan Zhang receives 2018 Ann Chittenden Holland Master’s Thesis Award for Graduate Student Excellence
- 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
- 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
- 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
- WSU Tri-Cities team in UW business competition ‘sweet 16’
- Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge
- New way to characterize cellulose, advance bioproducts
- 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
- Gap fund awards help get WSU innovations to market
- BSysE 598 Graduate Seminar Awards
- Grant funds test of market potential for jet fuel research
- Dr. Sankaran Presents at Inaugural Event
- Protecting our food system in a changing climate
- Grant Helps Farmers Use Smart Phones to Save Water
- 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
- 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