Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

ABE Faculty and Students Receive Honors at ASABE National Meeting

 

A number of ABE faculty members received awards for outstanding service, dedicated leadership, and exemplary contributions at the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) annual international meeting held in Reno, Nevada, in June. Congratulations to Matt Darr (Gale A. Holloway Professional Development Award), Matthew J. Helmers (Nolan Mitchell Young Extension Worker Award), Robert T. Burns (G. B. Gunlogson Countryside Engineering Award), Charles V. Schwab (NAMIC Engineering Safety Award), Hongwei Xin (Presidential Citation), and Ramesh Kanwar (John Deere Gold Medal). In addition, a paper by Betsy Pappas (USDA soil and water researcher and PhD alum), Ramesh Kanwar, Jim Baker, Jeff Lorimor, and Steve Mickelson received a superior paper award for their paper published in the 2008 Transactions of the ASABE.

An ABE student and two student clubs also received honors. Gayle Bishop, AE4, received the first-place award in the K. K. Barnes Student Paper Competition. The ASABE Student Club (engineering) received the first-place Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) Trophy Award, and the Agricultural Systems Technology Club (mechanization/technology) received the second-place AEM Trophy Award in recognition of outstanding initiative and accomplishments in ASABE student branch activities. With 28 undergraduate students in attendance, Iowa State received the first-place Student Mileage Award for traveling the most miles in the nation to participate in the 2009 ASABE annual meeting and conference.

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