麻豆AV

Item 1: Seminar by Nandkishor Dhawale:
Spark Assisted Chemical Engraving - SACE

Spark-Assisted-Chemical-Engraving (SACE) is a non conventional technology used for micro machining and drilling in non-conductive materials. Tool penetration strategies can be GFD, CVD and FBD. Investigation and characterization of CVD, still remains one of the underdeveloped areas in SACE. It is certainly presumed that investigation on forces acting at the tool-work piece contact point can be a potential tool in characterizing a CVD process for SACE.聽 It is also understood that studying such forces exerted on the tool during CVD, can help in identifying and implementing the finest feedback control strategies for SACE drilling technology.

Reviewers:聽 Mohammed Bakari, Mohsin-Bin Latheef, Ashley Robertson

Nandkishor was born in Canada but raised in India where he completed a B.E. in Instrumentation. He then did an MASc at Concordia in Mechanical Engineering. He is currently pursuing his PhD in the development of integrated autonomous sensing and characterization of agricultural soil under the supervision of Professors Adamchuk and Prasher.

Item 2: Seminar by Lylia Khennache:
Corruption, an Investigation in the Water Sector

Few things are more fundamental to life than ensuring the management of the world鈥檚 water resources is sustainable, equitable, efficient and free from significant failures, including corruption. Water resources management (WRM) is defined as all actions required managing and controlling freshwater to meet human and environmental needs.聽 WRM is about the fundamental rules of the game. Corruption and policy failures indirectly related to WRM have a strong impact on water quality, availability and distribution. In this presentation, corruption will be defined and its application to WRM will be illustrated with some case studies.

Reviewers:聽 Claude Adjanahoun, Baishali Dutta, Winny Routray

Lylia Khennache is a second year Ph.D student in Water Management. Her supervisors are Professors Adamowski and Prasher. Her project is about creating an Evaluation Tool to Improve Integrated Water Resources Management on Shared Waters in Africa. She holds a Bachelor Degree in Economics and Politics from the University of Montreal, a Master Degree in International Administration. She has also worked in two international organizations: the World Water Council in Marseille and the International Secretary for Water.


Item 3: Seminar by Olanike Aladenola:
Increasing Agricultural Water Use Efficiency

Water is vital for agricultural production. However, increasing competition for this resource between and within water users is a threat to food production. To sustain water use by agriculture and to meet present and future global food demand, water use efficiency must increase. One approach to achieve this is through precise irrigation scheduling. This presentation will discuss the use of plant water monitoring approach as a tool for increasing water use efficiency on the field.

Olanike Aladenola was born and raised in Nigeria. She is presently pursuing her PhD under the supervision of Prof Madramootoo in the Department of Bioresource Engineering, 麻豆AV.

Item 4: Seminar by Xin Rui:
Searching for Antihypertensive Peptides in Beans
Hypertension is nowadays a global epidemic that over 1.5 billion people suffer from abnormally high blood pressure. It is regarded as 鈥渟ilent killer鈥� since there are no specific symptoms. However, hypertension is controllable. Angiotensin I-Converting Enzyme (ACE) is a key enzyme in metabolic pathways inducing elevating of blood pressure. Thus inhibition of this enzyme is resulting in an important approach in blood pressure control. The hydrolysates from food protein sources have recently been found having promising ACE inhibitory activities.聽 In this project, 9 varieties of beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) which widely cultivated in Canada are utilized as starting materials for generating ACE inhibitors. This presentation will give a brief introduction on this project, including the background, material and methods and the most recent results.

Xin Rui is from China. She got her bachelor degree at 2006 at China Agricultural University majored in bioengineering. In 2008, she finished her Master studies in Food Science department at the same university. At the same year, she gained scholarship from China Scholarship Council for supporting her to come to 麻豆AV for pursuing her PhD degree in Bioresource engineering department, supervised by both Dr. Prasher and Dr. Simpson (in Food Science). She is now working on separating antihypertensive peptides (i.e. ACE inhibitors), from different varieties of beans.


Item 5: Seminar by Jamshid Rahimi:
Mass Transfer in Deep Fried Batter Coating

The consumption of low fat foods has been increasing during these two decades and the food manufacturers are looking for the best ways to decrease the final fat content of their products. A way to achieve this goal is batter coating before frying. In this presentation, I will talk about the effects of formulation, preheating and frying times on moisture and oil transfers in deep fat fried batter coating.

Jamshid was born in Khonj, a small town in south of Iran, and completed a bachelor鈥檚 and master鈥檚 degrees from Urmia University, Iran. After graduation, Jamshid worked for Pegah Dairy Co for one year to improve the texture of low fat yogurt. Then traveled to Tehran and worked on preparing a better quality low fat yogurt for Pak Dairy Co by changing the type of starter culture bacteria and also work on a project for Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences to improve the physical properties of low salt cheese. Jamshid is currently in his second semester in PhD position under supervision of Prof. Ngadi and is working on decreasing the fat uptake in deep fat fried foods.