Department
of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
K.C. Ting
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Professor and Head, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
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Agricultural Engineering Sciences Building
338 AESB, MC-644
1304 W. Pennsylvania Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
Ph: (217) 333-3570
Fax: (217) 244-0323
E-mail: kcting@uiuc.edu
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| Research Areas |
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Automation, systems analysis, alternative energy and thermal control |
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Computerized simulation, optimization and decision suport for bio-production and bio-processing systems |
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| Education |
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Ph.D., Agricultural Engineering, University of Illinois, 1980 |
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M.S., Agricultural Engineering, University of Kentucky |
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B.S., Agricultural Engineering, National Taiwan University |
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| Professional Experience |
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Professor and Head, 2004-date, Department of Agricultural and Biological
Engineering, University of Illinois
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Professor and Chair, 2000-2004, Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological
Engineering, The Ohio State University
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Chair, 1993-1999, Bioresource Engineering Department,
Rutgers University
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Director, 1986-1993, Bioresource Engineering Graduate Program,
Rutgers University
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Faculty, 1985-2000, Bioresource Engineering Department,
Rutgers University
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Chair, 1984-1985, Mechanical Engineering Technology Department,
University of Houston
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Faculty, 1980-1985, Mechanical Engineering Technology Department,
University of Houston
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| Honors and Awards |
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Certificate of Appreciation for Efforts as Executive Committee
Member, Symposium on Automated Agriculture for the 21st Century, ASAE-the
Society for Engineering in Agricultural, Food, and Biological Systems, 1991.
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Certificate of Appreciation for Contribution to the Workshop on
Controlled Environment Agriculture, Taiwan Agricultural Mechanization
Research & Development Center, 1991.
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Best paper award, K.C. Ting, G.A. Giacomelli, W. Fang, 1993, Decision
Support System for Single Truss Tomato Production, XXV CIOSTA-CIGR V Congress,
May 10-13, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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Best paper award, G.B. Bolkestein, K.C. Ting, 1993, Assuring
Completeness of Transplanted Seedling Flats Using a Robot, The Twenty-Fourth National
Agricultural Plastics Congress, June 4-8, The American Society for Plasticulture.
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Completed ESCOP/ACOP Leadership Development Course organized by Experiment
Station Committee on Organization and Policy, Academic Committee on Organization
and Policy and the USDA Cooperative State Research Service, 1993-1994
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Honorary Professor of the National Bio-Environment Engineering Laboratory of
the Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, 1996
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Leader of the Systems Studies & Modeling Team within the New Jersey NASA
Specialized Center of Research and Training (NJ-NSCORT), 1996-2000
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Editor of Information and Electrical Technologies Division of Transactions
of the ASAE and Journal of Applied Engieering in Agriculture, 1996-2000
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1997 Cook College/Alpha Zeta Professor of the Year, Rutgers University.
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Served on Publications Council of the ASAE, 1997-2003.
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Co-editor of a special issue of Artificial Intelligence
Review on Artificial Intelligence for Biology and Agriculture
published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, February 1998.
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ASAE Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of outstanding service
for authoring "Robotics for Bioproduction Systems", July 20, 1999.
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Japanese Government Research Awards for Foreign Specialists (Science and
Technology Agency), 40 days (November 1-December 10, 1999) exchange visit
at the National Research Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Tsukuba, Japan.
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Certificate of Appreciation for serving as Division Editor during
1996-2000, ASAE-Society for Engineering in Agricultural, Food, and
Biological Systems.
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Fellow of ASABE (American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers),
inducted July 2001.
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Fellow of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), elected July
2002.
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Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of a series of presentations
delivered based on the Advisory Program organized from September 8th to
September 18th, 2003 at Mie University, Japan.
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Honorary Theme Editor, UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems for the theme "Systems Analysis and Modeling in Food and Agriculture", Feb 2004.
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Guest Chair Professor, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 2006
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Fellow of Food Systems Leadership Institute, 2006-2008
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