Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering | Texas A&M University

Claudia Granda's project is Determination of acrylamide content in potato chips during vacuum frying - in the photo she is measuring the crispness of a potato chip after frying. Biological & Agricultural Engineering
Department Faculty
Dr. Brent Auvermann Dr. Brent Auvermann Curriculum Vitae
Associate Professor & Extension Specialist
Office: Amarillo
Phone: (806) 677-5600
E-mail: b-auvermann@tamu.edu

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

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

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. Curriculum Vitae
Professor
Office: 306C Scoates
Phone: (979) 862-7645
E-mail: ecastell@tamu.edu

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

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

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

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

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

Dr. Armen Kemanian Dr. Armen Kemanian
Assistant Professor
Office: Blackland Research Center
Phone: (254) 774-6107
E-mail: armen@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
Dr. Ron Lacey, P.E. Dr. Ron Lacey, P.E. Curriculum Vitae
Professor
Office: 302A Scoates
Phone: (979) 845-3967
E-mail: ron-lacey@tamu.edu

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. Curriculum Vitae
Professor, Extension Specialist, Associate Department Head & Extension Program Leader
Office: 301E Scoates
Phone: (979) 845-7453
E-mail: b-lesikar@tamu.edu
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. Curriculum Vitae
Professor
Office: 310 Scoates
Phone: (979) 847-8794
E-mail: rmoreira@tamu.edu

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

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

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.

Mr. Leon New Mr. Leon New
Professor & Extension Agricultural Engineer
Office: Amarillo
Phone: (806) 677-5600
E-mail: lnew@tamu.edu
Dr. Zivko Nikolov Dr. Zivko Nikolov Curriculum Vitae
Dow Chemical Professor
Office: 303F Scoates
Phone: (979) 458-0763
E-mail: znikolov@tamu.edu
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. Curriculum Vitae
Professor & Department Head
Office: 201 Scoates
Phone: (979) 845-3940
E-mail: riskowski@tamu.edu

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. Wes Rosenthal Dr. Wes Rosenthal
Associate Professor
Office: Blackland Research Center
Phone: (254) 774-6038
E-mail: rosenth@brc.tamus.edu

Research Interests: Crop simulation modeling and applications of hydrologic models.

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. Curriculum Vitae
Assistant Professor
Office: El Paso
Phone: (915) 859-9111
E-mail: z-sheng@tamu.edu

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

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

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. Ruixiu Sui Dr. Ruixiu Sui Curriculum Vitae
Research Associate Professor
Office: 203B Scoates
Phone: (979) 845-7681
E-mail: rsui@tamu.edu

Research Interests: Sensors and controls, cotton engineering, bioenergy feedstock handling and processing.

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. Curriculum Vitae
Professor
Office: 207E Scoates
Phone: (979) 458-3598
E-mail: thomasson@tamu.edu

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

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

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

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Department Adjunct Faculty
Dr. Michael Buser Dr. Michael Buser Curriculum Vitae
Adjunct Professor
Office: USDA-ARS Lubbock
Phone: (806) 746-5353
E-mail: mbuser@lbk.ars.usda.gov

Research Interests: Air Quality (pollution abatement, emission factors, dispersion modeling, and sampling techniques); Indoor Air Quality (environmental control, ventilation, measurement and control of air contaminants).

Dr. R. Nolan Clark Dr. R. Nolan Clark
Adjunct Professor
Office: USDA-ARS Bushland
Phone: (806) 356-5726
E-mail: rnclark@cprl.ars.usda.gov
Dr. Paul Colaizzi Dr. Paul Colaizzi
Adjunct Professor
Office: USDA-ARS Bushland
Phone: (806) 356-5763
E-mail: pcolaizzi@cprl.ars.usda.gov

Research Interests: Remote sensing and modeling of evapotranspiration at spatial scales ranging from within agricultural fields to entire regions, with emphasis on irrigation and water resources management. Energy balance of the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum.

Dr. Brad Fritz Dr. Brad Fritz Curriculum Vitae
Adjunct Professor
Office: USDA Annex
Phone: (979) 260-9227
E-mail: bfritz@apmru.usda.gov

Research Interests: Optimization of aerially applied spray, Meteorological and operational parameter influences on the deposition and ultimate fate or aerial sprays; Mass balance/mass accountability of aerial spray applications.

Dr. Prasanna Gowda Dr. Prasanna Gowda Curriculum Vitae
Adjunct Professor
Office: USDA-ARS Bushland
Phone: (806) 356-5730
E-mail: pgowda@cprl.ars.usda.gov

Research Interests: Hydrologic and water quality modeling. Regional evapotranspiration mapping. Application of remote sensing and GIS for water resources management.

Dr. Daren Harmel Dr. Daren Harmel Curriculum Vitae
Adjunct Professor
Office: USDA-ARS Temple
Phone: (254) 770-6521
E-mail: dharmel@spa.ars.usda.gov

Research Interests: Hydrology and water quality data collection methodology and associated uncertainty. Impacts of landuse and management on runoff and water quality.

Dr. W. Clint Hoffmann Dr. W. Clint Hoffmann Curriculum Vitae
Adjunct Professor
Office: USDA Annex
Phone: (979) 260-9351
E-mail: choffmann@tamu.edu

Research Interests: Effects of spray formulations on atomization, atmospheric transport of spray droplets, vector control, and development of a spray system for an autonomous aircraft.

Dr. Terry Howell, P.E. Dr. Terry Howell, P.E. Curriculum Vitae
Adjunct Professor
Office: USDA-ARS Bushland
Phone: (806) 356-5726
E-mail: tahowell@cprl.ars.usda.gov

Research Interests: Efficient use of water in irrigated agriculture: 1) Sprinkler Irrigation; 2) Microirrigation; 3) Evapotranspiration; 4) Lysimeters; 5) Irrigation Scheduling; 6) Crop Growth Models; 7) Micrometeorology; 8) Weather Networks; and 9) Water Quality.

Dr. Yubin Lan Dr. Yubin Lan Curriculum Vitae
Adjunct Professor
Office: USDA-ARS-SPARC-APMRU
Phone: (979) 260-3759
E-mail: yubin.lan@ars.usda.gov

Research Interests: Precision agriculture in aerial application: 1) Sensor and controls development; 2) Remote sensing/GIS/GPS; 3) Precision pest management decision system; 4) Remote sensing with crop modeling; 5) Multisensor data fusion; 6) Electronic nose/biosensor.

Dr. David Parker, P.E. Dr. David Parker, P.E. Curriculum Vitae
Adjunct Associate Professor
Office: West Texas A&M, Canyon
Phone: (806) 651-5281
E-mail: dparker@mail.wtamu.edu

Research Interests: Environmental engineering and waste management research and teaching related to concentrated animal feeding operations, food processing, and other industrial activities in the Texas Panhandle.

Dr. Russell Persyn, P.E. Dr. Russell Persyn, P.E. Curriculum Vitae
Adjunct Professor
Office: South Dakota State University
Phone: (605) 688-5144
E-mail: russell.persyn@sdstate.edu
Dr. Mohan Rao Dr. Mohan Rao Curriculum Vitae
Adjunct Professor
Office: Frito-Lay, Dallas
Phone: (972) 334 4258
E-mail: mohan.rao@fritolay.com

Research Interests: Rheology of Foods with special emphasis on extrusion, mathematical modeling of fluid flow during transient heat transfer, alternate novel dehydration technologies for manufacturing healthy fruit and vegetable snacks.

Dr. George Sabbagh Dr. George Sabbagh Curriculum Vitae
Adjunct Professor
Office: Bayer Corp, Stillwell, KS
Phone: (913) 433-5371
E-mail: george.sabbagh@bayer.com
Dr. Michael Topor Dr. Michael Topor
Adjunct Professor
Office: Frito-Lay, Dallas
Phone: (972) 334-4379
E-mail: mike.topor@fritolay.com

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