Faculty and Staff

Education
B.S.M.E.	Marquette University, 1977
M.S.E.	Purdue University, 1979
Ph.D.	Purdue University, 1983

 

Employment Experience
Professor	University of Florida, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. current--started as Assistant Profesor in 1986.
Engineer	Caterpillar Technical Center, Peoria, Illinois 1993-1994.
Assistant Professor	Texas A&M University and Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Agricultural Engineering Department 1983-1986.
Graduate Instructor Fellow	Purdue University, Agricultural Engineering Department, West Lafayette, Indiana. 1978-1983.
Manufacturing Engineer	Gilson Brothers Company, Manufacturing Engineering Department, Plymouth, Wisconsin. 1975-1977.
Field Manager	Ken Schueller Farms - Dairy, Grain, Vegetable Farm - Belgium, Wisconsin. 1973-1974.

 

Awards

Fellow (American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers---TBA June 2010)

Fellow (Society of Automotive Engineers)

Ralph R. Teetor Award (Society of Automotive Engineers)

Oral Presentation Award (Society of Automotive Engineers)

Robert L. Pinckney Award (American Helicopter Society)

G.H. & F.R. Vasey Award (University of Melbourne)

teaching and refereeing awards (various)

 

International Technical Visits

Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, France, Germany, Guatemala, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, South Korea, Sweden, Turkey, U.K. (England)

 

Professional Afiliations

Society of Automotive Engineers

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (former Chair of Gator Section)

Society of Manufacturing Engineers (Senior Member)

North American Manufacturing Research Institute (former co-Chair NAMRC)

International Society for Agricultural Engineering (currently sole USA Board Member and Chair?Section III: Equipment Engineering for Plant Production)

European Society of Agricultural Engineers (only non-European Founder Member)

American Society of Agricultural Engineers (former Chair of Tractor and Implement Hydraulics and Grain Harvesting Committees; former Chair of Agricultural Engineering Editorial Board)

Club of Bologna--UNACOMA (Full Member)

Sigma Xi

NCERA-180 Precision Agriculture Committee (former Chair)

 

Educational Activities

Taught over 20 different university courses at Purdue, Texas A&M, and University of Florida focusing on automatic control, manufacturing, machinery management, and machine design

Served on over 200 M.S. supervisory committees and 100 Ph.D. supervisory committees in aerospace engineering, agricultural engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, engineering mechanics, engineering science, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, nuclear engineering, and physics

 

Publications

Over 200 of various types for a wide range of audiences (including co-author of two editions of the SAE book Machine Design for Mobile and Industrial Applications.)

Published in journals including Transactions ASAE, SAE Transactions, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Fertilizer Research, Journal of Fertilizer Issues, Applied Engineering in Agriculture, International Journal of Vehicle Design, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement and Control, Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Machining Science and Technology, Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research, Precision Agriculture, Heavy Vehicle Systems, Journal of Intelligent Materials and Structures, Acta Horticulturae.

Currently on the editorial boards of Precision Agriculture, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (Editor-in-Chief starting July 2010), and Agricultural Engineering International