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.
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.
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.
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/
