Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering

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Department Faculty

Dr. Brent Auvermann Dr. Brent Auvermann
Associate Professor & Extension Specialist
Office: Amarillo
Phone: (806) 677-5600
E-mail: b-auvermann@tamu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: Environmental quality (air and water pollution) and manure management associated with confined livestock production.

Dr. Sergio Capareda Dr. Sergio Capareda
Assistant Professor
Office: 303D Scoates
Phone: (979) 458-3028
E-mail: scapareda@tamu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Ken Casey Dr. Ken Casey
Assistant Professor
Office: Amarillo
Phone: (806) 677-5600
E-mail: kdcasey@ag.tamu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: Characterization and mitigation of gaseous and odor emissions from intensive livestock operations. Assessment of environmental impact of intensive livestock facilities.

Dr. Elena Castell-Perez, P.E. Dr. Elena Castell-Perez, P.E.
Professor
Office: 306C Scoates
Phone: (979) 862-7645
E-mail: ecastell@tamu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: Characterization of food and biological materials, biomass pretreatments for bioenergy, food rheology, smart packaging systems, food safety technologies including irradiation and active packaging.

Dr. Chester Darcey Dr. Chester Darcey
Associate Professor
Office: 205C P&M
Phone: (979) 845-7634
E-mail: c-darcey@tamu.edu
Dr. Bill Dugas Dr. Bill Dugas
Professor & Associate Director - Opertations TAES
Office: 113 Williams Admin. Bldg.
Phone: (979) 862-6712
E-mail: w-dugas@tamu.edu
Dr. Juan Enciso Dr. Juan Enciso
Associate Professor & Extension Specialist
Office: Weslaco
Phone: (956) 968-5581
E-mail: j-enciso@tamu.edu
Dr. Cady Engler, P.E. Dr. Cady Engler, P.E.
Professor
Office: 303I Scoates
Phone: (979) 845-3685
E-mail: c-engler@tamu.edu
Dr. Brock Faulkner Dr. Brock Faulkner
Research Assistant Professor
Office: 309 Scoates
Phone: (979) 862-7096
E-mail: faulkner@tamu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: Characterization and mitigation of air pollution from agricultural production and processing operations. Cotton harvesting and ginning.

Dr. Sandun Fernando, P.E. Dr. Sandun Fernando, P.E.
Assistant Professor
Office: 303C Scoates
Phone: (979) 845-9793
E-mail: sfernando@tamu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Guy Fipps, P.E. Dr. Guy Fipps, P.E.
Professor & Extension Agricultural Engineer
Office: 207B Scoates
Phone: (979) 845-7454
E-mail: g-fipps@tamu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: Regional water planning, transboundary water issues, irrigation technologies, irrigation scheme (district) management and rehabilitation, pumping plant efficiency and testing, salinity and water management. Weather stations and ET networks.

Dr. James Gilley, P.E. Dr. James Gilley, P.E.
Professor
Office: 311 Scoates
Phone: (979) 458-1428
E-mail: gilley@tamu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Yongheng Huang, P.E. Dr. Yongheng Huang, P.E.
Assistant Professor
Office: 303E Scoates
Phone: (979) 862-8031
E-mail: yhuang@tamu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: Membrane technology for water treatment; environmental remediation technology; the movement of waterborne contaminants in surface and subsurface environments.

Dr. Fouad Jaber Dr. Fouad Jaber
Assistant Professor & Extension Specialist
Office: Dallas
Phone: (972) 952-9264
E-mail: f-jaber@tamu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: Integrated water resources management with specific concentration on watershed management programs; evaluation of stream processes and hydraulics to foster implementation of stream restoration programming.

Dr. R. Karthikeyan Dr. R. Karthikeyan
Assistant Professor
Office: 306A Scoates
Phone: (979) 845-7951
E-mail: karthi@tamu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: Fate, transport, and removal of contaminants in soil and water.

Dr. Armen Kemanian Dr. Armen Kemanian
Assistant Professor
Office: Blackland Research Center
Phone: (254) 774-6107
E-mail: akemanian@brc.tamus.edu
Dr. Ann Kenimer, P.E. Dr. Ann Kenimer, P.E.
Professor, Associate Dean for Academic Operations
Office: 303G Scoates
Phone: (979) 845-3677
E-mail: a-kenimer@tamu.edu
 Nicholas Kenny  Nicholas Kenny
Extension Program Specialist I - Irrigation Engineering
Office: Amarillo
Phone: (806) 677-5600
E-mail: npkenny@ag.tamu.edu
 Billy Kniffen  Billy Kniffen
Extension Program Specialist
Office: Menard
Phone: (325) 456-5772
E-mail: bkniffen@ag.tamu.edu

Research Interests: Rainwater capture

Dr. Ron Lacey, P.E. Dr. Ron Lacey, P.E.
Professor
Office: 302A Scoates
Phone: (979) 845-3967
E-mail: ron-lacey@tamu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: Engineering for applications to controlled environmental life support systems including maintanance of temperature, humidity, concentrations of atmospheric gases, and air quality.

Dr. Bruce Lesikar, P.E. Dr. Bruce Lesikar, P.E.
Professor, Extension Specialist, Associate Department Head & Extension Program Leader
Office: 301E Scoates
Phone: (979) 845-7453
E-mail: b-lesikar@tamu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Binayak Mohanty Dr. Binayak Mohanty
Professor
Office: 301C Scoates
Phone: (979) 458-4421
E-mail: bmohanty@tamu.edu
Dr. Rosana Moreira, P.E. Dr. Rosana Moreira, P.E.
Professor, Assistant Department Head & Graduate Coordinator
Office: 310 Scoates
Phone: (979) 847-8794
E-mail: rmoreira@tamu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: Fundamental modeling and automatic control of food processing systems, food dehydration (impingement drying), extrusion, deep-fat frying (vacuum frying), biomass pretreatment for bioenergy, food irradiation (Monte Carlo & dose distribution).

Dr. Saqib Mukhtar, P.E. Dr. Saqib Mukhtar, P.E.
Associate Professor & Extension Specialist
Office: 207A Scoates
Phone: (979) 458-1019
E-mail: mukhtar@tamu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: Assessment of technologies to reduce manure nutrient pollution, assessment of nutrient loss in runoff, animal mortality management, manure characterization for energy production, gaseous emission and aeration for odor control.

Dr. Clyde Munster, P.E. Dr. Clyde Munster, P.E.
Professor
Office: 127 Hobgood
Phone: (979) 847-8793
E-mail: c-munster@tamu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: GIS-based computer modeling of chemical transport through the soil, surface runoff and ground water at the watershed scale supported by field studies and laboratory experiments.

Dr. Zivko Nikolov Dr. Zivko Nikolov
Dow Chemical Professor
Office: 303F Scoates
Phone: (979) 458-0763
E-mail: znikolov@tamu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Calvin Parnell, P.E. Dr. Calvin Parnell, P.E.
Regents Professor, Cotton Chair
Office: 207D Scoates
Phone: (979) 845-3985
E-mail: c-parnell@tamu.edu
Dr. Dana Porter Dr. Dana Porter
Associate Professor & Extension Specialist
Office: Lubbock
Phone: (806) 746-6101
E-mail: d-porter@tamu.edu
Dr. Gerald Riskowski, P.E. Dr. Gerald Riskowski, P.E.
Professor & Department Head
Office: 201 Scoates
Phone: (979) 845-3940
E-mail: riskowski@tamu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: Controlled environment agriculture—providing appropriate environments for cost-effective production of high quality plant and animal products with minimum inputs and minimum undesirable outputs.

Dr. Steve Searcy, P.E. Dr. Steve Searcy, P.E.
Professor & Associate Department Head
Office: 201 Scoates
Phone: (979) 845-3668
E-mail: s-searcy@tamu.edu
Dr. Bryan Shaw Dr. Bryan Shaw
Associate Professor
Office: 303C Scoates
Phone: (979) 845-9793
E-mail: bshaw@tamu.edu

Research Interests: Air Quality (Pollution abatement, Emission factors, Dispersion modeling) Indoor Air Quality (Environmental control, Ventilation, Measurement and control of air contaminants)

Dr. Zhuping Sheng, P.E. Dr. Zhuping Sheng, P.E.
Associate Professor
Office: El Paso
Phone: (915) 859-9111
E-mail: z-sheng@tamu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: Surface water and groundwater hydrology, transboundary water resources management, aquifer storage and recovery system, and aquifer mechanics.

Dr. Vijay Singh, P.E. Dr. Vijay Singh, P.E.
Professor, Caroline & William N. Lehrer Distinguished Chair in Water
Office: 321 Scoates
Phone: (979) 845-7028
E-mail: vsingh@tamu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: Water Engineering, Surface and Subsurface Hydrology, Groundwater Hydrology, Water Quality Modeling, Stochastic Hydrology, Watershed Modeling, Irrigation Hydraulics, Entropy Theory, Dam Breach Modeling, Open Channel hydraulics

Dr. Patricia Smith Dr. Patricia Smith
Associate Professor
Office: 302B Scoates
Phone: (979) 845-3630
E-mail: patti-smith@tamu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: Hydrologic modeling, particularly land use and land cover effects on hydrologic processes at different temporal and spatial scales. Development of TMDLs for bacterial impairment of streams.

Dr. Raghavan Srinivasan Dr. Raghavan Srinivasan
Professor, Director for Spatial Science Laboratory
Office: Ecosystem Science & Management Department
Phone: (979) 845-5069
E-mail: r-srinivasan@tamu.edu
Mr. Greg Stark, P.E. Mr. Greg Stark, P.E.
Lecturer
Office: 306B Scoates
Phone: (979) 845-3949
E-mail: g-stark@tamu.edu
Dr. John Sweeten, P.E. Dr. John Sweeten, P.E.
Professor & Resident Director
Office: Amarillo
Phone: (806) 677-5600
E-mail: j-sweeten@tamu.edu
Dr. J. Alex Thomasson, P.E. Dr. J. Alex Thomasson, P.E.
Professor
Office: 207E Scoates
Phone: (979) 458-3598
E-mail: thomasson@tamu.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: Cotton engineering, precision agriculture, remote sensing, sensor development, bioenergy, identity preservation.

Dr. Susan Wang Dr. Susan Wang
Research Assistant Professor
Office: Blackland Research Center
Phone: (254) 774-6105
E-mail: swang@brc.tamus.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests: Development and application of biophysical models to agro-ecosystems, hydrologic and environmental impact assessment of agricultural and natural resource management.

 Dorothy Woodson  Dorothy Woodson
Extension Program Specialist
Office: Dallas
Phone: (972) 952-9688
E-mail: d-woodson@tamu.edu

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