Arden Weiss (BS '61 AgE, MS '65 AgE) was an agricultural engineer before he knew what agricultural engineering was.

“I grew up on a farm and attended school in Freeburg, Illinois,” says Arden. “My high school taught me two things I’ve used all my life – electrical wiring and welding. I did all the welding that needed to be done on the farm in those days, and I designed an auger wagon out of an old John Deere combine bin. It didn’t hold 1200 bushels like they run now,” he says with a laugh, “but we used the heck out of it. It sure beat shoveling those soybeans.”

Howard Wakeland, MS ’54 AgE, is one of two prominent alumni named as 2019 Distinguished Alumni in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering. The award was established in 2008 to recognize alumni who have made great contributions to the field and have maintained ties to the department and the University.

Allen Rider, Ph.D. ’73 AgE, is one of two prominent alumni named as 2019 Distinguished Alumni in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering. The award was established in 2008 to recognize alumni who have made great contributions to the field and have maintained ties to the department and University.

Jordan Blake Banks, a recent graduate of the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, is a 2019 recipient of the Fulbright grant. Banks will use her grant to pursue a master’s degree in bioenergy systems at the Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT) in Finland.

THE POWER OF PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP

Students and their families, faculty, alumni, and friends gathered to recognize excellence in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the ABE 2019 Spring Banquet, held on Sunday, April 7 at the I Hotel and Conference Center in Champaign, Illinois.

URBANA, Ill. - The 2019 Certified Livestock Manager Training workshops, will be held in 11 locations throughout the state, beginning Jan. 30 in Springfield and concluding Feb. 28 back in Springfield. The University of Illinois Extension workshops provide Illinois livestock producers the manure management training they need to meet the requirements of the state's Livestock Management Facilities Act.

Seven faculty and staff from the University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) have been selected to form the newest cohort of the ACES Academy for Global Engagement (Global Academy).  

The 2018-19 Global Academy, which marks the twelfth year of the program, will focus on building academic partnerships in South Africa, specifically with the University of Pretoria and the University of Kwa Zulu Natal.

URBANA, Ill. – The health and sustainability of cities depends, in part, on how well a city manages its food, energy, and water systems. But the flow of those key resources within a city is marked by complex interactions between these systems. Making changes or improvements to one system may cause issues for another.

Rapid population growth in the world’s urban centers calls for a greater understanding of these complex interrelationships between the systems, also known as the food-energy-water nexus (FEW).

URBANA, Ill. – Students in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) at the University of Illinois are learning hands-on about food systems, starting from seed improvement and soil science to commercial food processing, as well as bioprocessing technologies for industry, thanks to new facilities and renovations across the ACES campus.

The College of ACES is celebrating the completion of multiple renovated and newly constructed facilities with an open house on Friday, Sept. 28, on the Urbana-Champaign campus.