Resource, 1996, November

Features

• Sensing Human Presence
  Thousands of people are killed or injured in farm machinery accidents in the United States each year. Researchers are looking for ways to make equipment safer.



• Computer Modeling Tracks Runoff
  Florida's state government aims to protect Lake Okeechobee, one of the largest freshwater lakes in the country, from environmental problems caused by runoff from surrounding farms.



• Foreign Exchange
  Agricultural engineering students from Oklahoma, USA and Holland, Netherlands worked together on a long-distance design project. Afterwards, they said they learned more from the experience than they expected.



• Farmers Save Energy with VFD Vacuum Pump
  Variable frequency drives have been adapted to milking vacuum systems on dairy farms.

Inside ASAE

• Results of the ASAE International Member Survey
  From Argentina to Zimbabwe ­ what the non-North American member wants. A report by James Townsend based on the responses of more than 250 members in 68 countries.
• Editorial
  Carroll E. Goering issues a challenge to faculty members.
• Students
  Stoltman named Adams Scholarship recipient. ASAE student team wins ASME competition. Time to apply for Student Engineer of the Year Scholarship.
• Members
  E.D. Threadgill, G.E Rehkugler, P.D. Bloome, E.E. Finney Jr., J.K. Hale, J.L. Shaver.
• Communities
  Diversity and excitement are apparent at IBE's First Annual Meeting. NABEC '96 attendees "relax professionally."
• Events Calendar
  1997
  • Feb. 10-12 -- Agricultural Equipment Technology Conference '97 (AETC'97). Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
  • May 4-6 -- Agricultural Machinery Conference. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA.
  • May 29-31 -- Fifth International Livestock Environment Symposium. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
  • Aug. 10-14 -- ASAE Annual International Meeting. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
  1998
  • Jan. 28-30 -- Fourth International Dairy Housing Conference. St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
  • March 8-10 -- Seventh International Drainage Symposium. Orlando, Florida, USA.
  • March 8-10 -- Eighth National Symposium on Individual and Small Community Sewage Systems. Orlando, Florida, USA.
  • July 12-16 -- ASAE Annual International Meeting. Orlando, Florida, USA.