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Expert in Agricultural and Food Engineering
Available for your Consulting and Expert Witness Needs
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agricultural engineering expert
agricultural production expert
agricultural system expert
agriculture expert |
Expert's primary areas of specialization are agricultral systems analysis, agricultural production, agricultural safety, food and agricultural processing, greenhouse, and tissue culture. Expert has broad knowledge about agriculture, agricultural production, and agricultural systems. This knowledge comes from being raised on a livestock farm and from his current operation of a grain farm. Additionally, his training while earning degrees at three agricultural universities and his role as a professor at two others have given Expert the opportunity to research many different agricultural situations. He has had extensive experience with many aspects of agricultural systems. These include tillage, pest management as a licensed fumigator and pesticide applicator, irrigation, drainage, agricultural machines, grain bins, grain dryers, and livestock housing. At Penn State University, he teaches the capstone engineering design course for agricultural engineering students, "Optimization of Agricultural Systems." This course emphasizes systems engineering, systems analysis, and computer programming.
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agricultural accident expert
agricultural accident investigation expert
agricultural safety expert |
Expert has served as an expert witness on numerous occasions over the past 15 years concerning accidents involving agricultural machinery. These cases have involved a number of different agricultural machines. They have included a hay baler, flight conveyor, auger elevator, corn picker (two cases), lawn mower, silo unloader, and tractors. The accidents have included disfiguring twists, abrasions and cuts, amputation, electrocution, and mental impairment. Expert's qualifications for serving as an expert witness include his formal training in agricultural engineering, work experience with International Harvester, professorial teaching experiences, and first hand knowledge of the operation of agricultural machines from his ongoing experiences operating a grain farm. |
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greenhouse expert
plant production controlled environment expert |
Expert's primary area of research over the last two decades is controlled environments for plant production. This research has been done at Penn State University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Hawaii. It has included the design and construction of shadehouses and greenhouses, greenhouse heating systems, use of rejected water for heating greenhouses, greenhouse lighting, hydroponics, growth chambers, and micropropagation facilities. This work has led to dozens of publications. Expert's largest consulting job has been as the lending institutions technical representative in the construction of a $20 million, 30-acre greenhouse complex. |
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plant tissue culture expert |
Some of Expert's current research at Penn State University is aimed at plant tissue culture. His work has included the design of bioreactors and growth chambers. He has worked extensively with the Hawaiian Sugar Planter Association in the optimization of sugarcane micropropagation. |
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food processing expert |
Expert teaches the Agricultural Processing and Food Processing engineering courses at Penn State University. His areas of concentration are heat transfer, heat exchangers, fluid mechanics, pumps, fans, and materials handling.
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Localities:
Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and Frederick, Maryland.
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1974
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PhD
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Engineering
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University of Massachusetts
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1971
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MS
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Agricultural Engineering
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University of Hawaii
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1970
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BS
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Agricultural Engineering
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University of Arkansas
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2000 to 2001
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Visiting Scientist (Sabbatical)
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1982 to
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(Undisclosed University)
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Professor of Agricultural Engineering
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1990 to 1990
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University of Hawaii
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Visiting Professor of Agricultural Engineering (Sabbatical)
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1974 to 1982
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University of Illinois
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Associate Professor of Agricultural Engineering
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Associations/Societies
Expert has been an active member of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers(ASAE) since 1974 and has served as chairman of the Emerging Areas Division. He is also a member of the Institute of Food Technologists.
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Licenses/Certifications
Expert is a Registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) in the state of Illinois.
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Awards/Recognition
Expert is a member of five honor societies and received the Penn State Departmental Outstanding Faculty Award in 1984.
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Publications and Patents
Expert has over 100 publications. The range of subjects in his publications include the use of reject warm water from power plants in heating greenhouses, the evaluation of corrugated plastic pipe drainage in heavy soils, air-to-liquid heat exchanger systems for ventilation heat recovery, engineering issues in micropropagation, and optimization of grain bin systems.
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As a member of the Intota consultant network,
Expert is a specialist who provides technical consulting to corporate, legal and government clients. Expert provides professional consulting as an Agricultural Consultant and Food Engineering Consultant. Expert may consult as an independent consultant or as a member of a consultancy, consulting company,
or consulting firm. Consultants service will be covered by a consulting contract.
Ask an expert initial screening questions and ask the experts services particulars, by simply submitting
an expert request.
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Expert has served as an expert witness on more than a dozen accident cases involving agricultural and related machinery.
Intota experts can serve as expert witnesses or litigation consultants offering expert testimony, expert advice, litigation support,
forensic services, and related expert witness services. Expert can serve as an expert witness or litigation consultant in intellectual property (patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright),
product liability, and insurance matters. Expert may provide forensic expert witness testimony, litigation consulting services, forensic investigation,
and forensic testing if appropriate in litigation areas as an Agricultural Expert Witness and Food Engineering Expert Witness.
Intota provides attorneys and legal professionals the opportunity to ask an expert initial screening questions and
ask the experts services particulars by submitting an expert request.
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Expert serves as a resource to
Intota Market Research Services
for customized marketing research in industries or areas related to
Agricultural and Food Engineering.
Experts are an invaluable source of overall industry insight as well as insight into specific companies and firms for
custom business to business (b2b) and industrial market research. Intota uses analyst and
consultant resources from Guideline whose Research Directors manage the research and analysis of the qualitative
and quantitative data as well as report writing for the custom studies. The methods and tools
used by Intota market research combine the insights of technical experts and industry insiders with secondary
research to provide the custom b2b and industrial market research you need.
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| Additional Skills and Services: |
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Other Skills and Services
Expert has experience in machinery development for residence time control of food processing, aseptic processing, and chemical reactions. A prototype is available, and PSU patents are pending.
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