Please see the attached about Klein’s presentation at CGFS. Thanks,
Andrea Burniske
Program Manager, I 2D
Lab
Global Engineering Programs, 4th Floor, Wang Hall
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Ph: 765.496.3533
Skype: AndreaLaBurniske
https://engineering.purdue.edu/GEP/I2DLab
Punctuated Equilibrium -
the hypothesis that evolutionary development is marked by isolated episodes of rapid speciation between long periods of little or no change
From: Burniske, Gary R
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 8:55 AM
To: Burniske, Andrea E <Andreaburniske@purdue.edu>
Subject: FW: PCGFS-I2D Lab Seed Grant Seminar - APR 18, 2017
Hi Andrea:
Could you please circulate this to the I2D lab list, and any other network.
Thanks,
Gary
Gary R. Burniske
Managing Director
Center for Global Food Security
Purdue University
Mann Hall, Room 105
203 S. Martin Jischke Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1971
Tel. 765-494-0941
Fax 765-496-9322
Cel. 360-836-7179
Email
grburniske@purdue.edu
Skype gary.r.burniske
From: Dillworth, Angela
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 8:51 AM
To: Burniske, Gary R <grburniske@purdue.edu>
Subject: PCGFS-I2D Lab Seed Grant Seminar - APR 18, 2017
PCGFS-I2D LAB SEED GRANT SEMINAR
DR.
KLEIN ILELEJI
A Low-Cost Grain Moisture Meter
Networked to Smart-Phones
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
1:30 - 2:30 PM, MRGN 121
ABSTRACT: Currently, the portable hand-held meters in the market manufactured by well-known companies
are too expensive (about $300) and above the reach of small and medium holder farmers in developing countries. Additionally, none of these moisture meters have the means to capture data in order to share between trading partners remotely for transaction purposes.
On these devices, data is still captured via an LCD display and hand-written down on paper, making it easy to manipulate and hard to track, which is a major problem for long-distance trade transactions between the seller and buyer. We have developed a grain
moisture device prototype with data capture and logging using a smart cell phone. We would present our novel idea of how networking the moisture meter with cell phones that encompasses data sharing between the seller, buyer and financial institutions enable
smallholder farmers to participate in more lucrative markets of the value chain. This process empowers small- and medium-holder farmers with the means to directly market their crops to higher value markets in order to capture favorable prices rather than
leave the margins of trade to the middleman.
Dr. Klein E. Ileleji is an Associate Professor and Extension Engineer in Agricultural and Biological Engineering. Prior to joining the faculty at Purdue in August 2004, he was a post-doc at
the University of Minnesota and at Purdue from 1999-2001 and 2001-2004, respectively. He has a B.Eng. (1992) in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria, a MPS (1996) from the Institute of Economic Studies in Nitra (joint program between
Slovak Agricultural University in Nitra and Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y) and a PhD (1998) in Agricultural Engineering from the Slovak Agricultural University in Nitra. Dr. Ileleji’s research focus and interest at Purdue University are in the areas of
biomass feedstock systems engineering, powder technology and grain post-harvest technology. He teaches Biomass Feedstock Systems Engineering (ABE591K) and previously taught Electric Power and Controls (ASM420) for 6 years. Dr. Ileleji also leads both the renewable
energy and grain post-harvest extension efforts at Purdue. He is a 21-year member of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) and a 9-year member of the Grain Elevators and Processing Society (GEAPS). He has extensive international
experience in Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America and China. His activities can be found at
https://engineering.purdue.edu/~biomass/index.html and
www.grainquality.org. He is leading postharvest activities of the Feed the Future for Food Processing and Post-Harvest Handling Innovation Lab in Kenya and Senegal (https://ag.purdue.edu/ipia/fpl)
and a USAID/USDA-FAS funded capacity building effort in stored commodity management in Nigeria.
Purdue Center for Global Food Security
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