The EurAgEng Innovation & Development Award
The EurAgEng Innovation & Development Award (formerly known as the Industry Innovation Award) has become a regular feature of AgEng conferences since AgEng2000. The Award is intended to widen the appeal of the conferences to engineers from industry and is awarded at the AgEng conferences for the best quality paper on Innovation and Development from industry, or a combination of industry and academia.
Companies are encouraged to present papers on research and development leading to innovative products likely to be marketed commercially. The papers are judged by a distinguished team from EurAgEng and the winners are presented with the EurAgEng Innovation and Development Award.
At AgEng2008 the winning paper was Segregating Different Qualities of Grain during Harvesting by Hahn, J and Risius, H of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Fachgebiet Agrartechnik, Germany, and Korte, H of CLAAS SE GmbH.
Prof J Hahn and Dr H Risius (right) of Humboldt-University, Berlin receiving the award from Prof Ettore Gasparetto (left)
Also shortlisted was a paper on Development of a Passive Implement Guidance System by Kormann, G of John Deere, Intelligent Vehicle Systems, United States and Thacher, R of John Deere, Southeast Engineering Center,
and a paper on IRRIPRO: A Powerful Software to Graphic and Hydraulic Design of Irrigation Plants by Savona, P; Di Dio, P; Provenzano, G and Provenzano, C of Irriworks Ltd, Italy
At AgEng2006, six abstracts were submitted. Three were from EU countries, two from India and one from USA. Three of these abstracts were then worked as complete papers for presentation at the conference. The Evaluation Committee comprising Prof Ettore Gasparetto (University of Milan, Italy), Prof Brian Witney (the Editor of Biosystems Engineering) and Prof Aad Jongebreur(the President of EurAgEng), judged the submitted papers.
The winner of the award at AgEng2006 was David Shelton of Shelton Sportsturf Drainage Solutions with his paper on Developments in Sportsturf Drainage Machinery and Techniques. David and Eileen Shelton are pictured below receiving the award from Prof Aad Jongebreur at the Awards Ceremony.
The runners up were from the University of Almeria, Spain with a paper on Modification in the Building Method of Greenhouses to Reduce Labour Risks and Assemby Costs; and from the University of Hohenheim, Germany with a paper on Development of an Autonomous Device for Mixing and Transporting of Biomass in a Solar Dryer based on a Systematic Design Method (VDI 2221).
At AgEng2004, the winner was Andreas Brunnert (pictured below) from Claas CSE with a presentation on Automatic Guidance of Harvesting Machines.
The runners up were Johann Visser and Jan Pieter Dijkhuis (see below) with a presentation on DR Helix Distribution Rotor for Harvesting Potatoes.
