Prof. Yagoobi Keynote Speaker at EuroDrying 2023
By Victoria Birk Hill July 6, 2023
Professor Jamal Yagoobi, the founding director of CARD, was invited to give the keynote presentation at the EuroDrying 2023 conference held in Łódź, Poland. The 8th European Drying Conference was held July 4 – 7, 2023. The title of Jamal’s presentation was “Decarbonizing Industrial Drying – The Role of Academic Institutions.” Congratulations, Dr. Yagoobi!
CARD Spring IAB Meeting a Success
By Victoria Birk Hill May 25, 2023
Last week, May 18 – 19, 2023, we held our Spring Industry Advisory Board Meeting (IAB) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. It was well attended with 60+ registrants that included members, guests, faculty, students, and administrative staff. The students did a great job presenting project and poster results. Members had several opportunities to meet […]
CARD Researchers Present at Workshop on Control and Game Theory
By Victoria Birk Hill April 27, 2023
We are pleased to share that Professor Srinivasa Salapaka ,and his student, Alisina Bayati, both of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, were invited to present papers at the 9th Midwest Workshop on Control and Game Theory held at the University of Minnesota April 22-23, 2023 in Minneapolis. Srinivasa (left) presented a paper titled: “Parameterized Sequential […]
Dr. Petros Sofronis to be Keynote Speaker at May Meeting
By Victoria Birk Hill April 24, 2023
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Petros Sofronis of the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research at Kyushu University in Japan will be the Keynote Speaker at the CARD Spring IAB Meeting on May 18, 2023. Professor Sofronis’ research focuses […]
Lee & Yagoobi Present at Reckitt Benckiser Conference
By Victoria Birk Hill April 18, 2023
Professors Youngsoo Lee (left) and Jamal Yagoobi (below) presented information on behalf of The Center for Advanced Research in Drying (CARD) at the Reckitt Benckiser (RB) Global Powder Network International Conference on April 12, 2023. The conference was joined by RB employees from around the world. The topics of the professor’s discussions were: “Application of […]
Baby Boy News!
By Victoria Birk Hill March 24, 2023
We are so pleased to announce that Professor Aswin Gnanaskandan and his wife received the wondrous gift of a bouncing baby boy on March 21, 2023. Baby weighed in at 6.1 pounds and 18.5 inches. Everyone is doing fine. Our hearty congratulations to Prof. Gnanaskandan and his family.
CARD Paper Recognized as Top-Cited Article
By Victoria Birk Hill February 23, 2023
We are pleased to announce that a paper – “Stress Relaxation Properties of Bananas During Drying” – written by CARD researchers Fidele Abedi and Pawan Takhar has been recognized by Wiley Publishing as a top-cited article in 2021 – 2022. This distinction is based upon data collected from Clarivate Analytics. The paper and CARD-funded research […]
1st Licensing Venture for Commercial Application
By Victoria Birk Hill February 2, 2023
We are pleased to announce that CARD has developed its first “commercial licensing venture” using technology developed from several of CARD’s research projects. This deal was signed in December and allows the licensing company (a CARD Member company) to leverage the unique drying technology for its business purposes. We are all pleased to see CARD […]
Novel Smart Testbed at WPI
By Victoria Birk Hill November 17, 2022
CARD member, Reading Bakery Systems (RBS), along with Professor Yagoobi and the CARD team, have designed a novel dryer/oven testbed. This electrically operated pilot-scale oven/dryer fabricated by RBS was commissioned on October 25th 2022. The testbed, operational in continuous as well as batch modes, includes various conventional and innovative drying modules, along with unique sensor […]
10 Projects Voted for 2023
By Victoria Birk Hill November 10, 2022
The major Fall CARD Meeting was conducted on October 20th and 21st at WPI in Worcester, MA. It was a great meeting with 16 project updates and 14 posters from students. Our IAB members were very complimentary of the venue, food, and student progress this year, and they voted for 10 additional projects for 2023. The […]