BAE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Training Development Specialist
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- Chairman of the Board
- Member of the Advisory Board
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- William Neal Reynolds Distinguished University Professor & Extension Specialist
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- Environmental Research Education Foundation ( EREF )
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- Sediment Education Specialist
Dr. Castro-Bolinaga leads the Environmental Sediment Mechanics Research Group in the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at NC State University. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech, where he was part of the Baker Environmental Hydraulics Laboratory. He completed his undergraduate studies in Civil Engineering at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB) in Caracas, Venezuela. Dr. Castro-Bolinaga joined the department in November of 2016.
Education
Ph.D. 2016
Dr. Sayde grew up in a multi-generational farming family. From an early age, he was exposed daily to the practical challenges of agricultural production under the rapidly increasing impacts of climate change on available water resources. This was the main motivation for him to seek a B.S. degree in agricultural engineering from the University of Holy Spirit, Lebanon, then a M.S. degree in Land and Water Resources Management from the Mediterranean Agricultural Institute of Bari, Italy. Finally, he received his Ph.D. in Water Resources Engineering from Oregon State University (OSU). He was advised by one of the pioneers in optimum irrigation management, Dr. Marshall English, as well as one of the world leaders in vadose zone hydrology and environmental monitoring, Dr. John Selker. In his PhD and post-doctoral work at OSU he focused on developing cutting edge tools that allow the interrogation of our environment at a range of temporal and spatial scales never attempted before. For instance, he demonstrated the feasibility of using actively heated fiber optics (soil-AHFO) method in conjunction with Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) to quantify soil water content and fluxes at spatial scales spanning over 4 orders of magnitude (0.1 m to 1,000 m) and temporal scale well below 1 h. He also developed a novel approach to continuously measure wind speed simultaneously at thousands of points using actively heated fiber optics (air-AHFO). Dr. Sayde joined the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering in January of 2017 as an assistant professor.
Education
Ph.D. 2012
Job Titles:
- Extension Specialist
- Unpaid Emeritus
Job Titles:
- Professor
- Professor Emeritus BME
Frank taught and undertook research and public service work as a member of the faculty of the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at NC State University and the Department of Agricultural Engineering at the University of Kentucky. His areas of engineering expertise include machine design, human factors engineering, and biomechanics. He applied this expertise in solving problems in the harvesting and processing of agricultural crops, the protection of humans from noise and vibration in mechanized agriculture, and improvement of methods of management and treatment of orthopedic injuries in animals and humans.
He was a leader in the early development of study opportunities for students in the area of biomedical engineering at NC State as well as in the evolving broader area of engineering as applied to living systems in agriculture and elsewhere. He taught and advised students at the undergraduate and graduate levels and published in the areas of his academic responsibilities and interests.
He served as chair of the NC State Faculty Senate and director of graduate programs and interim head of the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering. He served for 9 years as the lead member of the staff of the Office of the Provost, most recently as senior vice provost and chief of staff where he was responsible for coordinating the operation of the provost's staff, consisting of 10 vice provosts, and for providing support and leadership in general faculty and academic affairs administrative service areas. He was also responsible, in collaboration with the academic deans of the colleges, for the administration of reappointment, promotion, and tenure system. He led the creation of the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning and collaborated in creating the Learning Technology Service at NC State. He served as the first NC State director of graduate programs for the Joint UNC-CH/NC State Department of Biomedical Engineering. He taught the undergraduate senior engineering design course sequence for biomedical engineers. The department is a joint department between the NC State College of Engineering and the UNC-CH School of Medicine.
Frank served on committees and councils at the university, system, and national level. He is a member of a number of professional societies including: the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, the Biomedical Engineering Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the Institute of Biological Engineering, and the American Society for Engineering Education. He is also a member of honorary societies including Gamma Sigma Delta, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, Blue Key, and Alpha Zeta.
Frank grew up in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, near the small town of Pinetops. He is married to Judy Waters, an interior designer in private practice, and they have two sons, both NC State graduates: Cameron is a professor and head of chemical and biological engineering at Drexel University, and Bradley is a senior product manager at Google in Mountain View, CA..
Noteworthy: Abrams held the position of Senior Vice Provost and Chief of Staff at NC State University for 9 years.
Education
Ph.D. 1971
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
NC State University
M.S. 1969
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
NC State University
B.S. 1966
Charlie Frank Abrams Jr. is currently emeritus professor of biomedical engineering and professor of biological and agricultural engineering at NC State University where he has been a member of the faculty since 1972. He holds bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees from NC State (1966, 69, 71), and he has served on the faculties of the University of Kentucky and NC State University.
Job Titles:
- Postdoctoral Research Scholar
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- Research Specialist - Nonexempt
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- Coordinator
- Unpaid Emeritus
Crowell G. Bowers retired from the faculty April, 2007. He is currently an emeritus professor of the department after 27 years of teaching and research. He is a triple graduate of the department who began teaching and researching in the department after earning his PhD.
Bowers has researched improvements to farm machinery continuing the long tradition of mechanization research for which the department is well known. Bowers focused on systems and controls for accuracy in the application of fertilizers, irrigation and pesticides. He developed a good relationship with the cotton industry and they supported much of his research with grants. He also received awards for a number of ASABE papers on the subject of agricultural mechanization.
Bowers most important contribution to the department has been his ability to relate to students especially undergraduate students. He taught courses in the agricultural engineering concentration area imparting his expertise of mechanical systems and controls. He advised several student organizations through the years and assisted with the ASABE 1/4 scale tractor competitions the students are involved with.
Bowers became the undergraduate coordinator for the department in 1995 and served as coordinator for 10 years connecting with many students and alumni. He has been the recipient of a number of esteemed teaching awards through the years. The awards have ranged from university level awards to simple gestures of appreciation by students.
Education
Ph.D. 1982
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
NC State University
M.S. 1970
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
NC State University
B.S. 1966
Job Titles:
- Division of Water Quality
Dr. Jones is an Assistant Professor in the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at North Carolina State University and holds a joint-faculty appointment with Idaho National Laboratory. At NC State, Dr. Jones is also the Data Science Academy Director of Agricultural Analytics; Director of the Agricultural Data Science Certificate; Office of Research and Innovation Faculty Fellow; Graduate Faculty of the Operations Research Program; Faculty Fellow of the Center of Geospatial Analytics; Faculty Affiliate of the Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center; and Faculty Affiliate of the Agricultural Biotechnology In Our Evolving Food, Energy, and Water Systems NSF Research Traineeship Program. Dr. Jones develops large-scale heterogeneous and geo-temporal data-intensive models to better understand and enhance the sustainability of intensifying agricultural systems. Particularly, she analyzes the feasibility of harvesting, pre-processing, storing, and delivering agricultural waste for conversion to energy in efforts to reduce the anthropogenic impacts to the environment. Additionally, she works with industry to process data collected from gene expression to management practices to ground-based sensors (such as soil moisture sensors) to drone imagery to weather stations to satellite sensors during planting, growing, harvesting, and packing to identify the factors that affect produce yield expressed as quantity and quality.
She earned her PhD in Biological and Agricultural Engineering with a concentration on energy systems from Texas A&M University, where she was an Alfred P. Sloan Scholar and received a certificate in Business Management. She received her Masters and Bachelor of Science degrees in Industrial Engineering with an emphasis in operations research and a Minor in Mathematics from Mississippi State University. She interned at Idaho National Laboratory and collaborated with multidisciplinary teams at Oak Ridge National Laboratory through her work on biofuels and renewable energy. Before this role, she was a postdoctoral associate at Duke University, where she performed quantitative and qualitative research on student interventions and supported programming of educational, career development workshops and community development events for underrepresented undergraduate and graduate students in the biosciences.
Education
Ph.D. 2017
Job Titles:
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Director, Division of Soil and Water Conservation
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Associate Professor / University of Nebraska - Lincoln
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- Adjunct Professor
- Research Hydrologist, USDA Forest Service
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- Undergraduate Coordinator
- Undergraduate Coordinator and Professor
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- Associate
- Professional Engineer
Dr. Barbara Doll is a licensed professional engineer with over 20 years of experience in ecological restoration. She teaches professional development workshops and academic courses in fluvial geomorphology and ecological restoration. She has secured and managed more than $7 million in external funding to implement water quality and restoration demonstration projects and conduct research at NC State University. She has conducted design, permitting, bidding and construction oversight for several restoration projects in this role. She obtained and managed $8.5 in funding between 1998 and 2011 for restoration of 6000 feet of highly degraded urban channel.
Dr. Garry Grabow, P.E. has expertise in land application of animal and industrial wastewater, irrigation systems and irrigation water management, and water quality monitoring. He provides training to operators of animal waste systems and operators of surface irrigation systems for land application of waste, and also to certified irrigation contractors.
Dr. Grabow's research interests include irrigation water management, land application of waste and water quality impacts of various land application systems. Grabow is involved in applied research projects that are evaluating the effectiveness of several different "smart" irrigation technologies in turfgrass in both research and homeowner settings. He is also involved in a study that is evaluation the effectiveness of chlorination technologies to disinfect irrigation water for use on fresh produce. He has also led research in subsurface irrigation systems for use in both freshwater and wastewater applications.
Prior to coming to NC State, Dr. Grabow worked for an irrigation district in California and spent 10 years in private water resources consulting. He has previous experience with international consulting including water reuse projects in the Middle East.
Dr. Grabow work with industry has been recognized by the NC Cooperative Extension Foundation and awarded the NC State Grange Search for Excellence Award in 2011. Dr. Grabow serves as Technical Advisor to the North Carolina Irrigation Society and is the UNC University System appointed member to the North Carolina Irrigation Contractor's Licensing Board.
Education
Ph.D. 1993
Job Titles:
- Associate Director
- Associate Director / Associate Director Research Service
Dr. George J. Kriz received his BSAE (1960) and MSAE (1962) from Iowa State University and his PhD (1965) from the University of California at Davis. While an undergraduate and graduate student, he was inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, Gamma Sigma Delta, Alpha Zeta, Cardinal Key and Sigma Xi. In June, 1965, he was employed at NCSU to reinvigorate the water management program and in 1966, Dr. F.J. Hassler, Head of BAE, asked him to initiate the animal waste management program. In 1969, he was named Associate Head of the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department responsible for the departmental extension programs. He was the first Associate Head of any department in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
In 1973 he was named the Assistant Director of the NC Agricultural Experiment Station and was promoted to Associate Director in 1981. His primary responsibility was to enable the CALS faculty members to conduct their research effectively on the University Field Laboratories and the 15 Outlying Research Stations. He worked closely with Cooperative Extension in the development of the CALS budget. Dr. Kriz facilitated the field days that were held at the various research facilities. Along with Al Banadyga, the extension leader of Horticultural Science, he initiated the very effective commodity reviews during which CALS faculty members presented their research and extension programs to the appropriate agricultural industry leaders in order keep them abreast of the latest information for their commodity of interest. He served on numerous university committees that dealt with transportation, building construction, patents, long range planning and research representing the CALS administration.
Dr. Kriz was very active in the Southern Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors. He represented them on several committees including the National Research Committee and the USDA Joint Council. He served as the Administrative Advisor to several regional research committees and the Agricultural Engineering Department Heads.
Dr. Kriz served as President of his professional society, the American Society of Agricultural Engineers in 1995-96. He along with other ASAE leaders was responsible for restructuring of ASAE, now ASABE, to encourage more participation of all members including student members in the association's decision making process. He was a founding member of the ASAE Foundation and served on numerous committees of ASAE. At the appropriate time during his career, he was also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Geophysical Union and the National Ground Water Association.
Along with his wife, Rhoda, Dr. Kriz established the George J. and Rhoda W. Kriz Faculty Study Leave Endowment in 1993 to encourage CALS faculty members to take study leaves to enhance their research effectiveness. In 2015 the Kriz's established a $4.5-million estate gift will fund multiple faculty-support endowments and one included the George J. and Rhoda W. Kriz Distinguished Professorship in Biological and Agricultural Engineering. He retired in 1999 as the longest serving Associate Director of Agricultural Research at a land grant university.
Education
Ph.D. 1965
Job Titles:
- Department Head
- Interim Department Head
Job Titles:
- Professional Engineer
- Professor Emeritus
Dr. Michael D. Boyette, P.E. is a Philip Morris Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and a licensed Professional Engineer. Dr. Boyette proudly received all three of his degrees from NC State University. He earned his BS and Ph.D. in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and his MS in the Department of Wood and Paper Science. After earning his BS and prior to joining NCSU as an Extension Specialist in 1983, he worked for six years as a design engineer in the Nuclear Products division of Rockwell International Corp. He earned his Ph.D. in 1990. He became a full professor and was named a Philip Morris Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering in 1999.
Dr. Boyette's interests and expertise is in the general area of crop processing. Specifically, he has conducted research and Extension work in the harvesting and postharvest handling of tobacco and fresh fruit and vegetables. He led multi-state efforts in the on-farm baling of tobacco during the years 1995-98 which was estimated to save the industry in excess of $25 million per year. In 1999- 2000, he was the lead researcher in another multi-state effort to retrofit tobacco curing barns to reduce the production of tobacco specific nitrosamines (TSNA's) during the curing process. TSNA's are known carcinogens that form during the curing of the tobacco. Due to the efforts of Boyette's team, the levels of TSNA's were reduced more than 92% the first year.
Sweetpotato consumption and popularity as a healthy food has grown by almost 50% in recent years. Sweetpotatoes are North Carolina's premier horticultural crop with more than half the sweetpotatoes produced in the US grown in North Carolina. Over 20% of North Carolina sweetpotatoes are exported to Europe with the balance reaching domestic consumers year around as table stock and increasingly as processed fries and chips. One of the main reasons for sweetpotatoes growth in popularity is their availability year around from very sophisticated storage facilities. North Carolina sweetpotato growers possess over 95% of the controlled storage facilities in the US. The design for these facilities was pioneered in the late 1980's by Dr. Boyette in cooperation with a group of forward looking growers who were able to envision a bright future for what was then a declining regional product.
Dr. Boyette has also had an enduring interest in wood gasification since his undergraduate days at NCSU. He has built and tested numerous gasification units and recently developed a biochar reactor to produce granular charcoal. This technology has been adopted and commercialized and is now used to produce biochar for use in greenhouse media.
Although Dr. Boyette is a productive and practical researcher and is widely known for his Extension work, he is foremost a teacher and mentor. He teaches the department's capstone engineering course as well as courses in postharvest handling and the history and policy issues of agriculture. He is well liked and respected as an educator and has been awarded twice the departmental teacher of the year award. Dr. Boyette has authored more than 100 papers and extension publications and has chaired and mentored more than 50 graduate students and serves on numerous committees.
Education
Ph.D. 1990
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
NC State University
M.S. 1986
Wood and Paper Science
NC State University
B.S. 1976
Job Titles:
- Department
- Professor and Department Extension Leader
Job Titles:
- Adjunct Professor
- Mike Franklin Consulting, NC
- President, Mike Franklin Consulting
Dr. Mike Franklin has 40 years of experience in the fields of Analytical Chemistry (Measurement Science), Scanning Electron Microscopy, Mechanical Engineering, and Materials Science. He currently has a consulting services and contracts with Research Triangle Institute (RTI) International,Center for Aerosol Technology, RTP, NC and has been involved with projects for GlaxoSmithKline and GlaxoWellcome for 15 yrs. Franklin has been an assistant professor at the University of Missouri Mo. and pediatric instructor at the University of Colorado. He got his start in the U.S. Army NASA program working on spectrochemical analysis and instrumentation development for materials science/metallurgy during the time of the U. S. Space Apollo Program. He holds 8 patents and 23 publications and speaks frequently. Franklin has served on the NC State Bio & Ag advisory committee for several terms and is an active champion of early science education throughout the RTP area.
Education
Ph.D. 1969
Job Titles:
- Unpaid Emeritus
- Unpaid Emeritus / Professional Engineer
Dr. Robert O. Evans, P. E. is internationally recognized for his contributions to drainage, drainage water management, stream and wetland restoration, riparian buffers, and nonpoint source pollution control. While best known for a truly outstanding extension program, he also made significant and substantial contributions in research, graduate teaching, extension administration, and leadership in local and national committees, professional societies, study commissions and task forces, and from 2006 to 2014, as Head of the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at NCSU. Dr. Evans has excelled in every role with his contributions making a real difference to agricultural production and profits on drained soils, to water quality, the environment, his students' academic and professional careers and society at large.
From his early research, Dr. Evans determined crop response to shallow water tables and developed algorithms for predicting yields losses in terms of water table depths and durations. His results were incorporated into DRAINMOD. Dr. Evans is best known for his contributions to applied research, extension and public adoption of drainage water management, specifically controlled drainage (CD). His work expanded research sites in North Carolina and helped environmental regulators and farmers better understand the practice and its application of drained cropland. Working with NC Cooperative Extension, USDA-NRCS and ARS, he set up a series of field demonstration and research sites, the results from which convinced regulators that CD would work and resulted in it being recognized as a Best Management Practice to improve drainage water quality with associated cost sharing provided by the State of North Carolina. It is now a major component of the ADMS Task Force with application to the Midwestern US.
Dr. Evans' service includes past chair of the 1998 National Drainage Symposium, past chair of the Drainage Council for the ASCE Division of Irrigation and Drainage and past chair of the ASABE Department Heads. As member of the International Committee on Irrigation and Drainage, he has participated in congresses in South America, The Netherlands, China and Finland. Dr. Evans has collaborated with water management researchers in Canada, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and United Kingdom, served as instructor at Drainage Schools in Ohio and Illinois, co-instructed DRAINMOD courses in six states, and served on teams to review water management programs in the Southeast region and nationally. Throughout his career, Dr. Evans has demonstrated a strong commitment of service to the organizations he represents.
Education
Ph.D. 1991
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
NC State University
M.S. 1981
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
NC State University
B.S. 1976
Job Titles:
- Research Technician III
- Research Technician III / Assistant Professor, University of Florida
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- National Field Manager / Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Job Titles:
- Professor Emeritus
- Retired
Ervin G. Humphries is a native of North Carolina and a triple graduate of the department earning his BS in 1958, MS in 1960, and PHD in 1964. He worked in the area of machine design and processing equipment for horticultural crops, primarily for pickling cucumbers. He initiated and sustained the multiple-pick approach to harvesting cucumbers (Harvester shown right) and was involved with sweet potato, cabbage, pepper and tomato harvesting equipment. Humphries also contributed to the materials handling and processing aspects of many horticultural crops developing methods to reduce the physical damage sustained by these commodities by conveying, transporting, cooling and storage operations.
In the processing area, Humphries was instrumental in the introduction of fiberglass and polyethylene bringing in tanks for the pickling industry. These large (10,000 gal.) tanks replaced wooden tanks that were prone to leaking and required high maintenance; leaking tanks contaminated the processing areas with high concentrations of salt brine. The runoff from processing areas into nearby streams or waste treatment systems was a major problem for the pickling industry. New and novel methods of cucumber processing to upgrade the food quality aspects of brined vegetables, the processing /handling equipment for "closed tank" fermentations, and the mechanics of loading and unloading closed containers were developed (see closed tank to the right) in association with USDA personnel.
Humphries teaching responsibilities were in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Departments where he taught statics, dynamics, solid mechanics, and machine design courses for over thirty years. Thus, his teaching and research activities have been mutually beneficial. He has also served as a consultant to industry and advisor to several commodity groups.
Education
Ph.D. 1964
Agricultural Engineering
NC State University
M.S. 1960
Agricultural Egineering
NC State University
B.S. 1958
Job Titles:
- Temporary Skilled Craftsperson
Job Titles:
- Registered Professional Engineer in Ohio
- Unpaid Emeritus
- Unpaid Emeritus / Retired June, 2008
Baughman is a registered professional engineer in Ohio and North Carolina. He has served on several department and college committees, and on the ASABE Poultry Housing Committee. Baughman is a sought after consultant in the design of farm structures and continues this consulting today.
Job Titles:
- Extension Associate Professor
- Extension Associate Professor / Professional Engineer
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- Director of Bioenergy, Cavanaugh & Associates, P.a
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- Jimbo 's Jumbos Peanut Sales
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- Graduate and Undergraduate Student Services
- Student Services Coordinator
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- Postdoctoral Research Scholar
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Retired Vice President / Custom Controls Unlimited, Inc.
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Supplier Partner Account Manager / Livingston & Haven
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Precision Farming Specialist / B & S Enterprises, Inc.
Job Titles:
- Developer of the Animal
- Unpaid Emeritus
- Unpaid Emeritus / Retired May 2001
C. James Barker was born and educated in Tennessee. He received all three degrees from the University of Tennessee a BS in 1967, MS in 1969 and PhD in 1973. He came to NCSU in as an extension specialist and assistant professor in 1974 and became a associate professor in 1979 then full professor.
Barker worked in extension in the area of livestock waste management systems. In his years he helped to advance the working relationships between regulatory agencies, farmers, and advisory personnel. He pulled together the appropriate information for developing a range of livestock waste treatment lagoon sizing criteria and his work was adopted by regulatory agencies.
He worked on swine drylot and mountain dairy stream runoff impact studies to nurture the logical interpretation of stream pollution regulations. He developed basic criteria for flushing livestock waste from animal confinement buildings. His techniques have been widely implemented in N. C. and have been further studied and implemented by growers from the more traditional livestock areas in the Midwest.
He emphasized the need for low-cost waste and wastewater analysis services so that farmers could better match waste application rates with actual crop fertilizer needs. The North Carolina Department of Agriculture now offers this fee service and new research in the area of land application is ongoing today. He has tested and promoted low-cost, low-management wastewater treatment alternatives for small to moderately sized livestock operations. His settling basin-vegetative filter system is currently being used by dairymen.
Barker is the developer of the Animal and Poultry Manure Production & Characterization Database a very useful aid to livestock producers. He wrote extensively on livestock management and waste producing most of the Bio & Ag extension publications on this subject.
Education
Ph.D. 1973
University of Tennessee
M.S. 1969
University of Tennessee
B.S. 1967
University of Tennessee
Job Titles:
- Member of the American Society of Biological
- Professor of Biological and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University
Jay J. Cheng is a Professor of Biological and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University. He works in the area of environmental engineering & bioenergy processes and his primary focus is on research and teaching.
His research and grants investigate bioenergy processes and waste treatments. Cheng's publication record has resulted in over 140 articles in refereed scientific journals, and more than 100 papers in national and international technical conferences. He is the editor of "Biomass to Renewable Energy Processes" a book published in 2010 and 2018. It is considered a standard reference and textbook in the area of bioenergy.
Cheng's research program is well funded having secured over 6 million dollars as the principal investigator or co-investigator for over 40 research projects. His program centers on international research collaborations demonstrated by over 80 key-note speeches and seminars in the US, China, Europe, Japan, and South America. He has served as Guest Editor for the journal of Fermentation and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Environmental Engineering and the Journal of Biology. He has also served on more than 25 national and international professional committees and is well recognized for his research work.
In addition to his research program Cheng teaches courses in "Biomass to Renewable Energy Processes" and "Industrial Microbiology and Bioprocessing" and he has mentored more than 30 graduate students. Cheng is an associate faculty member of NCSU Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering and an adjunct faculty member of the Peking University-School of Environment and Energy in Shenzhen, China.
Cheng is a member of the American Society of Biological and Agricultural Engineers (ASABE), International Water Association (IWA), Water Environment Federation (WEF), Association of Overseas Chinese Agricultural, Biological, and Food Engineers (AOC), and Chinese Association for Science and Technology in USA (CAST-USA).
Education
Ph.D. 1996
Job Titles:
- Bayer CropScience Manager
Dr. Gregory Jennings, P.E., joined NC State in 1990 as an Assistant Professor. He progressed through the academic ranks and was named Professor in 2001. Over his career at NC State Dr. Jennings made significant contributions in the areas of water quality, watershed management, stream restoration, and ecological engineering. He served as Water Quality Coordinator for the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, in which role he coordinated interdisciplinary water quality educational and research programs. Dr. Jennings also led the development of the NCSU Stream Restoration Program, probably the pre-eminent program across the United States, that has educated both students and professionals through delivery of education programs based upon research conducted at NC State and elsewhere.
Dr. Jennings chaired 9 PhD and 21 Masters' committees and served on graduate committees for 55 other students in programs across 5 universities. He developed or co-developed 4 courses in 2 programs in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering in the areas of environmental and ecological engineering and implementation. Dr. Jennings has published 44 peer-reviewed journal articles and is lead author or co-author of 9 book chapters. He has served in several leadership roles in North Carolina Cooperative Extension including Neuse Education Team Coordinator and Watershed Education Network Coordinator. He was also a Governor's appointee to the NC Environmental Management Commission and the NC Sedimentation Control Commission, and was a member of the NC DENR Science Advisory Committee. These appointments show the recognition of his programs at a high level. His leadership and committee work extended to the national level, serving our professional society, the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), and committee work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Dr. Jennings has been recognized as an ASABE Fellow, been awarded the G.B. Gunlogson Countryside Engineering Award through ASABE, and received the NC Association of Cooperative Extension Specialists Award, 4 times. Several team or program awards have been received in which he provided leadership.
Dr. Jennings is an authority on stream restoration practices and a sort after consultant by environmental engineering firms and contractors. Dr. Jennings is still involved with our stream restoration program and Bio & Ag training and workshops. Please see our workshop pages for courses
Noteworthy: Jennings Gregory Jennings served as Water Quality Coordinator for the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
Job Titles:
- Naval Facilities Engineering
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- Progress Energy Service Co
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- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Director of Graduate Programs
John J. Classen will provide project management services and contribute towards the development of cohort challenges and toolbox modules in support of the project entitled Ã à š ¬Ã… œINFEWS/T4: The INFEWS-ER: a Virtual Resource Center Enabling Graduate Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems.Ã à š ¬Ã‚ Specifically, Classen will return two learning modules, Effectively Communicating Science and Environmental and Economic Modeling used to support this effort. He will also contribute to the development and delivery of cohort challenges and mentor two graduate students to assist with preparing learning modules and cohort challenges.
Job Titles:
- Project Coordinator
- Research Associate
- Research Associate / Project Coordinator / Professional Engineer
Job Titles:
- Division of Water Quality
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- Business Services Coordinator
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- Adjunct Professor
- Member of the Advisory Board
- Owner / Coats and Bennett
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- Unpaid Emeritus
- Unpaid Emeritus / Retired
Early in his career, L. Bynum Driggers was a believer in the theory that improving the environments of animals improved the production and quality of the animals providing food. He devoted his life to that belief, becoming a dedicated professional who made outstanding contributions to the design of agricultural structures.
Driggers grew up in Sumter, S.C., and headed to Clemson University for his undergraduate degree. "In 1957, upon receiving a B.S. degree in Agricultural Engineering from Clemson, I was employed by Virginia Tech as the Farm Buildings Plans Specialist and thus began my career in the Structures and Environment field of Agricultural Engineering, the first in my family," he recalls.
He spent 10 years at Virginia Tech as an agricultural engineer before joining the staff at North Carolina State University. A leader of extension agriculture engineers throughout the U.S., he significantly influenced many rural construction practices, pioneering a number of ventilation and environmental controls for livestock housing that are now widely accepted in the industry.
Much of his work involved the on-farm set-up of research and demonstration units, testing ways to improve barn airflow and techniques for animal feeding. He also taught agricultural engineering. Two innovations in swine housing that were developed by Driggers changed the way in which hogs are produced.
Driggers is the author or co-author of 13 refereed journal articles, 83 Extension publications, 36 proceedings and technical reports, 72 papers for professional meetings and technical conferences, and 47 popular articles which included two for Farm Building News (now Rural Builder) in 1972.
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- Postdoctoral Research Scholar
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- Postdoctoral Research Scholar
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- Communication Specialist
- Public Comm Specialist
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- Professional Paid Hourly
- Professional Paid Hourly / Engineering Intern ( E.I. )
Dr. Page Puckett received her Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in 2007, where she conducted a flume study on the rock cross vane and designed an assessment tool to evaluate the performance of the structure in streams across North Carolina. Since graduating, she has developed and continues to improve on graduate level distance courses for the BAE Department. These classes include: In-stream Restoration Structure Risk and Failure Assessment (BAE 582), Ecohydraulics and River Corridor Function (BAE 583), and Fresh Water Use Rights and Policy (BAE 590). Her fall distance course, Introduction to Land and Water Engineering (BAE 580), is created to prepare new graduate students with the fundamentals needed for stormwater design and further coursework in the department.
Education
Ph.D. 2007
Job Titles:
- Professor - Agricultural Waste Management
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- Member of the Advisory Board
- Associate Professor / East Carolina University
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- Lecturer - Distant Education
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- Unpaid Emeritus
- Unpaid Emeritus / Professional Engineer
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- Founder
- Member of the Advisory Board
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- Research Specialist - Nonexempt
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor
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- Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Member of the Advisory Board
- President
Job Titles:
- William Neal Reynolds Distinguished University Professor & Extension Specialist