RESOURCE

Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World

Remediation Opportunities Surface in Rural Areas ... 7
Agricultural and biological engineering professionals are poised to fill a new research niche ­ remediation engineering of soils, sediments and aquifers in our rural landscape. These professionals have the experience to develop new technologies and tools as well as the academic ties to dual disciplines and the rural community.

Chipping Away at Contamination ... 9
Silicon-based chips coated with biological proteins could help safeguard the nation's food supply. The multiproject, interdisciplinary effort combines engineering, biology and nanotechnology to produce more efficient and faster methods to find, identify and eradicate microbes or chemicals that contaminate food.

Big-Picture Approach ... 11
Producers are bombarded with research, technical and commercial information as well as demands from governments and environmental and community groups about manure-management systems. One project is focusing on a systems-engineering methodology to identify important criteria for the design, evaluation and selection of these systems. The results: environmental and human concerns are superceding cost considerations.

Views from the Field ... 13
Precise positioning is playing a critical role in all agricultural field operations as the increasingly populated world continues to lose farmland and global markets become more competitive. Four farmers put a precision tool using the Global Positioning System to the test and gain speed, accuracy and efficiency in their operations.

INSIDE ASAE

Relationship Between ASAE and ANSI ... 15
Questions are often asked about the relationship between ASAE and the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Learn more about ANSI, why it's role is important to ASAE and how it affects the ASAE standards process.

A Word From the President ... 16
How Do You Celebrate a Century?

Surveyed Members Note Improvement ... 17

Professional Development ... 18
Dairy Housing Conference to be Held Jan. 29-31 in Fort Worth

Section News ... 18
Minnesota Section Tours Wind Power Generation Facilities

Preprofessionals ... 19
Mommsen Receives ASAE Foundation Scholarship, Wilken Earns Merriam Scholarship, Hodgson Receives Adams Scholarship

Member News ... 20
Pierre Jutras, Stuart O. Nelson, Marvin L. Stone, Charles L. Peterson

In Memoriam ... 20
Henry D. Bowen

Welcome New Members ... 21

Member Fact ... 21
Did You Know ...

Departments

Reader Forum ... 2

Update ... 3

ASAE Online ... 23

Personnel Service ... 25

Advertisers Index ... 27

Professional Listings ... 28

Last Word (reader opinion) -- Flex Your Professional Muscle ... 29
Being licensed provides the maximum level of professional flexibility during uncertain economic times. A past chair of the Professional Engineering Institute answers your questions and comments about pursuing the licensing process

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