2018-10-01 15:30:00 2018-10-01 16:30:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis Distinguished Lecture Series - Prof. Avital Bechar Senior Research Scientist & Head of the Department of Production, Growing and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Agricultural Engineering (IAE), Agricultural Research Organization (ARO), Israel STEW 279
Distinguished Lecture Series - Prof. Avital Bechar
Event Date: | October 1, 2018 |
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Time: | 3:30 - 4:30 PM |
Location: | STEW 279 |
Contact Name: | Erin Gough |
Contact Phone: | 765-496-0606 |
Contact Email: | egough@purdue.edu |
Open To: | All |
Priority: | No |
School or Program: | Industrial Engineering |
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"Dealing with High Variances in Agriculture: Industrial Engineering and Robotics Perspectives"
ABSTRACT
BIO
Professor Avital Bechar is a senior research scientist and the head of the department of Production, Growing and Environmental Engineering at the Institute of Agricultural Engineering (IAE), Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) in Rishon LeZion, Israel, and an Associate Professor at Ben Gurion University in Beersheba, Israel. During 2011-2012 he was on a sabbatical leave at Purdue University. He holds a BSc degree in Aerospace Engineering and a MSc in Agricultural Engineering, both from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Ben-Gurion University, on agricultural robotics and human-robot integrated systems. Prof. Bechar is the founder and head of the Agricultural Robotics Lab at IAE, where he is conducting fundamental and applied research in robotics for agriculture, human-robot collaborative systems, and sensor technologies, and is developing new concepts and approaches for the operation and development of agricultural robots. He is the author of more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed scientific publications. He has authored several book chapters and has led and participated in more than 40 local and international research projects. Prof. Bechar is the former chair of the Israeli Society of Agricultural Engineering (ISAE); a co-founder of the Israeli Robotics Association (IROB); a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Agricultural Robotics; a member of the intelligent automation and robotics work group (AE09) of the European Society of Agricultural Engineers (EurAgEng); and a member of the CIGR Section V committee (Systems management).
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