Professor Da-Wen Sun (left) and PhD Student Patrick Jackman (right) received their awards from the CIGR President Prof. Irenilza de Alencar Nääs
Professor Da-Wen Sun and Patrick Jackman, both from the UCD School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine have been recognised with the top two awards at the 2nd CIGR International Conference on Agricultural Engineering held recently in Igassu Falls City, Brazil.
Prof Da-Wen Sun has received the CIGR Recognition Award for his distinguished achievement of being in the top one percent of Agricultural Engineering scientists worldwide, according to the ISI Essential Science Indicators (ESI) database. The CIGR Recognition Award is the most prestigious in the CIGR award system. This award enhances Prof. Sun’s reputation as one of the world’s foremost authorities in Agricultural and Biological Engineering.
PhD Student Patrick Jackman has received the CIGR Armand BLANC Prize for his paper entitled “Prediction of Beef Palatability from Digital Image Features”. The CIGR Armand BLANC Prize is awarded to students and young members, under the age of 30, for presenting excellent papers at a World Congress. In the paper, produced as part of his PhD research, Patrick describes an automatic computerised system which he has developed that extracts features of raw beef colour, marbling fat and surface texture from digital images of quartered carcasses. These image features were then successfully used to build accurate predictive models of important palatability attributes.
Patrick Jackman’s PhD research is co-supervised by Prof Da-Wen Sun and Dr Paul Allen from Teagasc. Patrick was funded under UCD's Seed Funding Scheme (Round 1 2008) to attend this conference
CIGR, the International Commission for Agricultural Engineering, established in 1930, is the largest international agricultural and biological engineering organisation in the world. CIGR’s conferences are the most important gathering in the field and this year’s conference was attended by over 1000 participants. The conference featured many papers at the cutting edge of modern agricultural engineering research from subjects as diverse as food safety to power machinery design.
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