BBRG members achievement

Fahimeh Yazdanpanah, a PhD Candiate at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has recently received the Boyd-Scott Graduate Research Award for her paper “Effect of Moisture Content and Fine Material on Permeability of Wood Pellets to Airflow”. Fahimeh presented her paper at the ASABE Conference in Reno/Nevada in June 2009. Congratulations!

Dr. Shahab Sokhansanj (an Adjunct professor in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering and a member of the Clean Energy Center) was inducted as a Fellow of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) at the Annual International Meeting of the Society in Reno, Nevada (June 20th-24th). The Fellow award is given to a member of unusual professional distinction with outstanding and extraordinary qualifications and experience in, or related to, the field of agricultural, food, or biological systems engineering, a minimum of 20 years of active practice in or related to, the profession of engineering and a minimum of 20 years as a Member-Engineer or Member in ASABE. Congratulations!