David Beach Beasley

Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering

214 Weaver Laboratories, Box 7625

North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC 27695-7625

PRESENT RANK AND TITLE

Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering

HOME ADDRESS

3701 Stonecrest Court

Raleigh, NC 27612

TELEPHONE NUMBERS

(919) 787-1797 (Home)

(919) 515-6795 (Office)

(919) 280-4906 (Mobile)

(919) 515-6772 (FAX)

EMAIL

david_beasley@ncsu.edu

DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH

April 11, 1948 in Ithaca, New York

EDUCATION

Ph.D. - Agricultural Engineering, Purdue University, 1977

M.S. - Agricultural Engineering; Mississippi State University, 1973

B.S. - Agricultural Engineering; Mississippi State University, 1971

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1999-Present - Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, North Carolina State University

1991-1999 - Professor and Department Head, Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, North Carolina State University

1988-1991 - Professor and Department Head, Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, Coastal Plain Experiment Station, University of Georgia, Tifton

1984-1988 - Associate Professor, Agricultural Engineering Department, Purdue University

1978-1984 - Assistant Professor, Agricultural Engineering Department, Purdue University

1977-1978 - Assistant Professor, Agricultural Engineering Department, University of Arkansas

1973-1977 - Graduate Research Instructor, Agricultural Engineering Department, Purdue University

1971-1973 - Graduate Assistant, Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department, Mississippi State University

1966-1969 - Cooperative Education Student, Lockheed Aircraft, Marietta, Georgia

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION

Professional Engineer - Indiana (#17789)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

ASABE (formerly ASAE), The Society for engineering in agriculture, food, and biological systems

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)

Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST)

Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS)

SCHOLARLY SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

Phi Kappa Phi Tau Beta Pi

Gamma Sigma Delta Alpha Zeta

Alpha Epsilon Sigma Xi

HONORS, AWARDS, AND PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

ASABE Related:

2007-present - Member of the ABET-EAC Executive Committee (2008-present Chair of the Criteria Committee)

2006 - Elected to the membership grade of Fellow

2005 - ASABE President’s Citation for work done with ABET in developing a Biological Engineering program criteria with ASABE as the Lead Society

2004-present - Member, Board of Directors, Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) representing ASABE

2002-present - Member, Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Chaired the ad hoc committee within the Criteria committee of the EAC to define and propose program criteria for “bio” engineering across all disciplines

2001-2003 - District 2 (Southern U.S.) representative to the ASAE Nominating Committee

1999-2001 - District 2 (Southern U.S.) representative of the ASAE Membership Development Council

1999-2000 - ASAE Representative to NCEES-EPE (Professional Exams) Committee

1997-1999 - Chairman of ASAE's P-513 committee, Membership Publications Editorial Board (member of P-513 1993-1999)

1996-1997 - Chairman of the Steering Group (P-210/1) of the national Academic Program Administrators committee within ASAE

1995-1996 - Chairman of P-210, the national Academic Program Administrators committee within ASAE (Secretary of P-210 in 1994-1995)

1993-1996 and 1999-present - Board of Trustees for the ASAE Foundation

1992-1993 - Chairman of the Southern Regional Agricultural Engineering Department Heads Committee - AC-5 (Secretary in 1991-1992)

1990 - ASAE Paper Award, Honorable Mention, "Rill Erosion as Affected by Incorporated Crop Residue and Seasonal Consolidation," indicating one of the top 5 percent of Transactions articles for 1989

1987 - ASAE Blue Ribbon Award for Educational Aids in the Computer Programs area, "Clean Water Planner"

1987 - ASAE Blue Ribbon Award for Educational Aids in the Computer Programs area, "DSS: An Expert System for Selecting Dam Sites"

1987 - ASAE Paper Award, "Integral hydraulic motor speed and torque sensor," one of ten such awards given in 1987 by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

1981 - ASAE Paper Award, senior author, "ANSWERS: A model for watershed planning," one of eight such awards given in 1981 by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Other Honors, Awards, and Achievements:

Listed in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering and Who’s Who in the South and Southwest

2005 - Elected to the Arkansas Academy of Biological and Agricultural Engineers

2003 - Dr. Beasley was one of two NCSU faculty members to lead a summer study abroad group from NCSU to Rostock University in Germany

2002 - Named a "Distinguished Engineering Fellow" of the College of Engineering at Mississippi State University

2001 - Outstanding Alumni Award from the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department at Purdue University

1996-1999 - Coordinator for the NCSU efforts in the six-state animal waste consortium and as PI for a center planning proposal for a 13-state consortium as part of the USDA-Fund for Rural America.

1994, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007 - Evaluator for the Louisiana Board of Regent's LEQSF funding program for enhancing engineering and agriculture programs statewide.

1993 - Dr. Beasley, at the invitation of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, attended the South Korean-U.S. Joint Conference on New Wastewater Treatment Technologies and Approaches in Seoul, South Korea and spoke on advances in waste treatment and management technology relating to animal agriculture production systems.

1987-2003 - Represented the United States in the area of non-point source pollution modeling as part of a large-scale US-USSR scientific exchange program. This program has involved 4 trips to the Soviet Union (Russia and Ukraine) in 1987, 1989, 1990, and 1991 to work with members of the All Union Scientific Research Institute for Protection of Water in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov. He has also worked with scientists in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Odessa, Krasnodar, and Kursk. Dr. Beasley hosted Soviet delegations in Tifton, GA in 1988 and in Blacksburg, VA in 1990 and 1991. In 1995, Dr. Beasley visited Ukraine and interacted with scientists and officials in Kiev, Zhitomir, and the Chernobyl area dealing primarily with agriculturally-related environmental pollution. In 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2003, Dr. Beasley visited the former Soviet Republic of Moldova and helped set up and operate an exchange program between two universities in Moldova and two universities in the UNC System (NC State and UNC-Greensboro).

1986-1987 - Recipient of Visiting Scientist Support from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO - Australia's national research agency) to study sediment and chemical monitoring and modeling from agricultural areas at the Black Mountain campus in Canberra, ACT, Australia.

1986 - Recipient of University of New England (Armidale, NSW, Australia) Visiting University Fellowship for 1986.

1984 - U.S. co-host at an International Workshop in Venice, Italy entitled "Prediction of Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution: Model Selection and Application." The primary sponsors were NSF and CNR (Italy).

AREAS IN WHICH RESEARCH IS CONDUCTED

Dr. Beasley's current research interests flow from and are a broadening of his earlier work at Purdue, Arkansas, and Georgia. Specifically he is interested in...

…investigating processes and emissions of various pollutants (gaseous and particulate) from confined animal production systems.

...studying and simulating the mechanisms of pollutant movement (sediment and chemicals) in agricultural ecosystems. As the developer of the ANSWERS water quality model, which is used throughout the world, Dr. Beasley has helped better understand and plan for improvements in water and natural resource systems.

...utilizing deterministic modeling technology combined with remote sensing techniques and geographic information systems (GIS) to make better and faster estimates of nonpoint source pollution yields from areas ranging from the size of fields to river basins.

...evaluating interactions between soil erosion and soil productivity.

...investigating the use of advanced computer systems and data manipulation techniques to better transfer the technology that is being developed.

GRANTS, CONTRACTS, AND GIFTS RECEIVED

Dr. Beasley has, through the years, been successful in attracting extramural funding for his research program. USEPA and USDA funding provided much of the support needed to develop the original version of the ANSWERS model. Other innovations in water quality monitoring and modeling have also resulted from grant funding. An "expert system" version of the WEPP model, new chemical and nutrient movement relationships for the CREAMS and GLEAMS models, hypermedia and GIS-oriented decision support systems for analyzing and treating groundwater problems are some of the outputs of these projects.

EDITORSHIP OR EDITORIAL BOARDS

Dr. Beasley served as a member and chairman of ASAE's P-513 committee, which is the editorial board for Resource magazine (1993-2000).

Dr. Beasley served as Associate Editor of Transactions of the ASAE (1978-1982) in the area of Hydrology.

TECHNICAL REVIEWER FOR JOURNALS

Agricultural Engineering

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

Journal of Environmental Quality

Mechanical Engineering Transactions of the Institution of Engineers (Australia)

Resource

Soil Science

Transactions of the ASAE

Water Resources Research

RESIDENT INSTRUCTION AND CONTINUING EDUCATION

Currently, Dr. Beasley is teaching BAE 471 "Land Resources Environmental Engineering." This course is the foundation course for the environmental emphasis within the Biological Engineering program. Dr. Beasley team taught (with Dr. Gary Roberson) "Agricultural Health and Safety" -- BAE 432 at NC State in 1999 and 2000. Dr. Beasley taught graduate and undergraduate courses (in the environmental and instrumentation areas) when he was associated with the University of Arkansas and Purdue University.

Dr. Beasley has been heavily involved in departmental administration and program assessment since the late 1980's. He was Department Head at two institutions (University of Georgia-CPES and North Carolina State University) from 1988 to 1999. He has been an ABET evaluator since 1994 and has evaluated programs in agricultural, biological, environmental, and forest engineering. He has also been an outside evaluator for engineering programs at Ohio State, Louisiana State, the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagϋez, and Sultan Qaboos University in Oman. He has been a member of two engineering advisory committees (Mississippi State University and the University of Arkansas). When ASAE was rewriting the “Agricultural and Similarly Named” accreditation criteria for ABET’s EC 2000, Dr. Beasley was asked to write the preliminary program criteria for biological engineering. Seven times since 1994, Dr. Beasley has participated as an outside evaluator of program enhancement proposals for engineering programs funded by the Board of Regents in Louisiana (for both Agriculture and Engineering-B programs). Recently, Dr. Beasley became a member of the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET. He has led 12 accreditation teams in the last 7 years. He was asked by the Chair of ABET’s EAC Criteria committee to chair an ad hoc committee (8 engineering societies participated) to devise a plan for dealing with biologically-based engineering. The new Biological Engineering program criteria resulted from that effort.

PUBLIC SERVICE

During part of Dr. Beasley's tenure at Purdue (1983-1988), 25 to 40 percent of his time was budgeted to extension funds with the responsibility of working with public sector agencies and engineers concerned with water quality. The major aspect of his effort concerned a technology transfer program to enable the new analytical tools developed through his and others' research to be adapted for planning and engineering design of nonpoint source pollution abatement projects. This effort was accelerated by the successful pursuit of outside competitive funds. Currently, he is developing a similar program at NC State. He has also been involved with technology assessment as part of the Smithfield Foods funded effort to develop and implement alternative animal waste management and treatment technologies.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

National Committees, Leadership, and Special Assignments:

2004-present Member, Board of Directors of the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST)

• Chair, Food Science and Agricultural Technology Workgroup (2008-present)

2002-present Member, Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET, Inc.

• Member of Executive Committee and Editor
• Member of Criteria Committee (2002-2008), Chair (2008-present)
• Chair of ad hoc committee to define appropriate criteria for “bio” related engineering

2001-2003 District 2 representative (Southern U.S.) to ASAE Nominating Committee

1999-2001 District 2 (Southern U.S.) ASAE Membership Council Representative

1995-present ED-204, ASABE. ABET Accreditation

• Observer, 1994
• Evaluator, 1995-present
• EAC Representative, 2002-2007
• EAC Executive Committee, 2008-present

1993-1996, 1999-2005 Member, ASAE Foundation Board of Trustees

1995-1997 Member, P-202, ASAE. Education Department Steering Committee

1992 Member, Summer ASAE International Meeting Planning Committee

• Children’s activities Co-Chair

1988-1999 P-210, ASAE. Academic Program Administrators

• Secretary, 1994-1995
• Chairman, 1995-1996
• Chairman of Steering Group (P-210/1), 1996-1997

1990-1991 BARD (U.S.-Israel) Review Committee Co-Chairman for Proposals in Agricultural Engineering

1988-1989 Chairman, Organizing Committee for CREAMS/GLEAMS Symposium

1987-1988 Planning Committee for International Symposium on Modeling Agricultural, Forest, and Rangeland Hydrology

• Poster Session Chairman
• Technical Session Chairman

1983-1992 SW-223, ASAE. Erosion Control Research

1983-1992 SW-217, ASAE. Hydraulics and Transport Processes

• Technical Session Chairman, 1985 Winter Meeting

1975-1991 Dr. Beasley served as a technical reviewer (paid reviewer on four occasions) for more than 20 erosion and hydrology related papers and final reports for USDA and USEPA.

1978-1983 SW-215, ASAE. Hydrologic Systems

• Technical Session Chairman, 1979 Summer Meeting
• Technical Session Chairman, 1980 Summer Meeting

OTHER SERVICES

Consulting Activities:

2002-2003 URS Corporation and CALFED Bay-Delta Program, Sacramento, CA. Served as a peer reviewer for research and data collection efforts associated with the Stockton Deep Water Ship Channel TMDL efforts.

2000 Bunge Meat Industries Ltd, Corowa, NSW, Australia. Evaluated a new U.S. technology that might be used in swine waste processing.

1990-1993 South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL. Served as an expert witness in a lawsuit involving agricultural drainage, nutrient movement, best management practices, and water delivery systems and their impact on the Everglades and associated systems.

1987-1988 Enchanted Hills Community Association, Cromwell, IN. Consulted on sedimentation and aquatic weed problems in and around boat access channels to Lake Wawasee.

1987-1988 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Chicago, IL. Consulted on agricultural nonpoint source modeling as well as erosion- and phosphorus-related issues in the Great Lakes region and as part of the US-USSR scientific exchange program.

1986-1988 Heritage Lake Estates, Coatesville, IN. Consulted on residential lake sediment removal and sedimentation basin design and construction.

1985-1988 East Central Michigan Planning and Development Region, Saginaw, MI. Consultant and reviewer for modeling project on Saginaw Bay.

1983-1986 Wisconsin DNR, Madison, WI. Consulted on application of the ANSWERS modeling technology in the statewide cost sharing program in Wisconsin.

1982-1988 Limno-Tech, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI. Consulted on water quality modeling and data acquisition in Saginaw Bay project area.

1982-1985 Eli Lilly and Company, Greenfield, IN. Consulted on nonpoint source modeling and monitoring in the areas of agricultural chemical movement and fate.

1980 U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. Paid reviewer for assessment of certain evaluation methodologies.

1979 U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo, NY. Presented seminars and tutorial work for applying ANSWERS technology.

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