“Offloading grain into a cart is stressful,” Assistant Engineering Professor John Evans told FarmWeek. “We’ve seen other attempts with autonomous systems. Those focused on driving. The combine operator had to move back and forth.

An increasing number of networked devices are out there in the wild, ranging from security cameras to aerial drones, to small Raspberry Pi single-board computers, and many others. The total installed base of Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices worldwide is projected to reach 30.9 billion units by 2025, a sharp jump from the 13.8 billion units in 2021. These devices are becoming smaller in terms of their physical form factor — leading to a new designation I use, the Internet of Small Things (IoST).

"We needed the human genome project – the complete map - to begin to identify the genes key to disease or health, and we need a complete map of the physical economy to identify what changes are key to achieving sustainability.”

Fall 2020 introduced new teacher evaluation survey questions, including 10 quantitative questions regarding instruction, on a 5-point scale. EPICS and VIP students were surveyed on instructional aspects relevant to experiential courses. Individual teacher averages are calculated across these quantitative measures.

These faculty, lecturers and other staff who taught Engineering classes had rounded up averages of 4.6 or more in undergraduate or graduate classes with enrollments of 10 and above and 50% or higher response rates based on student evaluations from courses taught in Engineering in spring 2021.

“I am humbled and thankful for this recognition by AIChE, especially because solving the issue of climate change and resource sustainability is an urgency for our planet now.”

The ABE program was listed as #3 among best 19 online master's in biotechnology.