Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering

 

"Bringing life to engineering"

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FACULTY

Faculty

Teaching/Research Area

Barry Allred

Surface/subsurface hydrology

Bala Balasubramaniam Food safety and process engineering, high pressure processing, pasteurization and sterilization, properties of food and biological materials, microbial inactivation kinetics

Thomas L. Bean, Interim Chair

Agricultural safety, safety systems

Ross Braze, Adjunct USDA

Micro-climatology, pesticide application

Larry C. Brown

Agricultural water management and quality

Michael F. Brugger

Facilities Design

Ann Christy

Bio-environmental engineering, Bioreactor landfill

Richard Derksen, Adjunct USDA

Pesticide application technology

Mohammad Reza Ehsani

Precision agriculture

Norman Fausey

Drainage design, water management

Robert J. Gustafson

Application of electrical power in agriculture

Robert C. Hansen

Computer-controlled fertigation of nursery crops

Gonul Kaletunc

Food engineering/food processing

Harold M. Keener

Composting, bioprocess engineering

Charles Krause, Adjunt Associate Professor, USDA

Plant Pathology, Foliar Fungicides, Horticulture & Crop Science

Peter Ling

Greenhouse automation, machine vision

Karen Mancl

Wastewater treatment

Thomas H. Marshall, Adjunct Professor

Environmental engineering

 

Jay Martin

Ecological engineering, natural & constructed wetlands, riverine and estuarine systems, ecological modeling, energy analysis

Frederick Michel, Jr.

Composting, bioprocess engineering, bioremediation, microbial ecology

Erdal Ozkan

Agricultural chemicals, Application technology

Randall C. Reeder

Conservation tillage, machine systems

Sudhir K. Sastry

Food processing, aseptic processing

Ted H. Short, Associate Chair

Greenhouse controlled environment  systems

Alfred Soboyejo

Structural and mechanical engineering

Tara VanToai Adjunct

Plant genetics, environmental stress tolerance

 

Andrew D. Ward

Modeling hydrologic systems, drainage, water quality, remote sensing, soil erosion, reservoir sedimentation

 

Howard Zhang

Food process engineering, pulsed electric field processing, food packaging, physical properties of foods, biological sensors and process automation

Lingying Zhao

 

Controlled environment engineering

Heping Zhu, Adjunct USDA

Pesticide spray techniques, micro-irrigation and drainage

The Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering currently has faculty located in Columbus and Wooster, Ohio. The faculty hold Ph.D.’s from ten United States universities. Seven adjunct faculty actively contribute to the department’s programs. Staff members support the department in secretarial, technician, and scientist positions.