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Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World

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Rivers Get a Second Chance
Traditionally, people thought that taking woody debris out of waterways would improve fish passage and increase river channel conveyance. Recently, researchers and scientists have learned that the natural debris is helpful to rivers and streams. One company has designed structures made of natural wood that can replace the previously removed materials.

A Sound Solution
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a sound absorbing alternative that works under high temperature conditions.

Predicting Insect Population Growth
USDA-ARS entomologists are developing computer-based management tools to help grain storage and warehouse managers make insect control decisions.

A Fumigant's Fate
ARS, and the privately owned company GFK Consulting Ltd., are researching ways to capture methyl bromide on activated carbon to prevent methyl bromide gas from escaping into the atmosphere. The fumigant methyl bromide is slated to be withdrawn from use and production in the United States January 1, 2001.

Last Word (reader opinion) - Competent Composting
Few of the numerous people who are composting waste have technical competence and fewer, if any, have ISO 9002 or 14002 Certification. Even large composting operators tend to lack a holistic view of their process in terms of life cycle analysis from the point where a raw material enters the manufacturing process to where compost is added to the soil.

Our aim should be to produce a material that can be easily incorporated into farm soil, used as a mulch on the surface of amenity plantings or in forestry work, and in soil manufacture in land reclamation.

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Inside ASAE

Reaching the Younger Crowd
Some members are exploring different ways to attract high school students to the profession.

ASAE and SAE Sign Ag Tractor Standards MOU
The presidents of ASAE and the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) sign the memorandum of understanding drafted in 1997.

ASAE Poised to Re-Invent its Electronic Publishing Environment

Preprofessionals
LSU Senior Dies in Skydiving Accident. ASAE Scholarships Available to Student Members. CalPoly Takes First Place in Micro-Mini Tractor Pull.

Members
NABEC 98, Terry Howell, Gerald Riskowski.

New Committee Exploring Ways to Increase Viability of Sections

Professional Development
ASAE-sponsored Fifth International Green Crop Drying Symposium.

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