In Machine Systems Engineering we develop innovative and increasingly
automated machines for agricultural, construction, mining, forestry, and
transportation systems by integrating data, robotics, fluid power, and systems
thinking to optimize water, energy, food, and environment interactions.
Research teams are creating new technologies to solve problems related to
production efficiencies, energy usage, human-machine interfaces, environmental
impacts of road machinery, and food production. Agricultural engineers merge
knowledge of engineering design with real-world environmental conditions to
create novel and practical solutions for off-road vehicle applications, crop
production, storage, and transfer.
Faculty
Dennis Buckmaster
Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering; Dean's
Fellow for Digital Agriculture
Research Areas
Data generation, flow, and use in decision making
Digital agriculture primarily with machinery, cropping, and
livestock applications including computation, connectivity, and
communication. Open source work through www.oatscenter.org.
https://engineering.purdue.edu/~dbuckmas
Sadegh Dabiri
Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering
Research Areas
Numerical methods and CFD simulation of flows n
applications with heat transfer, turbulent gas-liquid flows,
sprays and liquid atomization, and mixing. Modeling cavitation
in fluid power systems.
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~sdabiris/
John Evans
Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Research Areas
Machine Systems and Automation: Agricultural Machine Design and
Logistics. Precision Agriculture Technologies Evaluation and
Application. Automated Systems Design and Modeling.
Jian Jin
Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Research Areas
Plant phenotyping sensors systems development, along with
machine vision, electronics, statistics, machine learning
automation and robotics and their applications in plant
phenotyping activities.
Upinder Kaur
Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Research Areas
Robotics, precision agriculture robotics.
John Lumkes
Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering; Assistant
Dean & Associate Director, Office of Academic Programs
Research Areas
Design of intelligent machines and systems. Agricultural
robotics. Autonomous and drive-by-wire technologies for
vehicles. Sustainable technologies for developing countries.
Modeling, simulation, and control of dynamic systems. Fluid
power.
Lizhi Shang
Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Research Areas
Hydraulic system innovation. AI-aided designing and modeling
hydrostatic pumps and motors, hydrodynamic pumps and turbines,
fluid power systems, and advanced computational and experimental
tribological analysis.
Robert Stwalley
Clinical Associate Professor, Agricultural & Biological
Engineering
Research Areas
Design of Specialized Machines and Systems for Agriculture:
Precision Livestock Instrumentation & Nano-Climate Control;
Fresh Water Access for Developing Areas; BioEnergy & Energy
Systems; Off-Road Equipment Design; Social Implications of
Engineered Systems; Equity in STEM Education.
Andrea Vacca
Maha Fluid Power Faculty Chair; Professor, Agricultural &
Biological Engineering/Mechanical Engineering (joint)
Research Areas
Fluid Power Systems. Design, modeling and testing of new
concepts for Hydraulic Systems and Components, with focus on
improving controllability and efficiency of fluid power machines
in off-road, aerospace, industrial, and automotive applications.
https://engineering.purdue.edu/Maha/
