Anantheswaran, Swamy (rca3@psu.edu) Penn State; Aryana, Kayanush (Kai) J. (karyana@agcenter.lsu.edu) Louisiana State; Balasubramaniam, Bala (Balasubramaniam.1@osu.edu) Ohio State Univ.; Barringer, Sheryl (barringer.11@osu.edu) Ohio State Univ.; Bermudez, Daniela (daniela@mail.wsu.edu) Washington State Univ.; Castell-Perez, Elena (ecastell@tamu.edu) Texas A&M University; Chen, Hongda (hchen@csrees.usda.gov) USDA/CSREES; Cheryan, Munir (mcheryan@uiuc.edu) Univ. of Illinois; Datta, Ashim (akd1@cornell.edu) Cornell University; Davies, Cathy (cdavies@udel.edu) Univ. of Delaware; Feng, Hao (haofeng@uiuc.edu) Univ. of Illinois; Hartel, Rich (rwhartel@wisc.edu) Univ. of Wisconsin; Heldman, Dennis R. (drheldman@earthlink.net) industry consultant; Hsieh, Fu-hung (hsiehf@missouri.edu) Univ. of Missouri; Jung, Stephanie (jung@iastate.edu) Iowa State; Kaletunc, Gonul (kaletunc.1@osu.edu) Ohio State Univ.; Karwe, Mukund (karwe@aesop.rutgers.edu) Rutgers; Keener, Kevin (kkeener@purdue.edu) Purdue; Lee, Youngsoo (leeys@uiuc.edu) Univ. of Illinois; Lo, Martin (ymlo@umd.edu) Univ. of Maryland; Lund, Daryl (dlund@cals.wisc.edu) NCRA; Mallikarjunan, Kumar (kumar@vt.edu) Virginia Tech; Mauer, Lisa (mauer@purdue.edu) Purdue; McCarthy, Kathryn (klmccarthy@ucdavis.edu) Univ. of California; Moreira, Rosana (rmoreira@tamu.edu) Texas A&M University; Morgan, Mark (mmorgan@purdue.edu) Purdue; Motwani, Tanuj (tum123@psu.edu) Penn State; Muthukumarappan, K. (muthukum@sdstate.edu) SDSU; Padua, Graciela (gwpadua@uiuc.edu) Univ. of Illinois; Payne, Fred (fpayne@bae.uky.edu) Univ. of Kentucky; Perchonok, Michele (michele.h.perchonok@nasa.gov) NASA/Johnson Space Ctr; Rao, Andy (mar2@cornell.edu) industry consultant; Ruan, Roger (ruanx001@umn.edu) Univ. of Minnesota; Sabliov, Cristina (csabliov@bae.lsu.edu) Louisiana State; Sastry, Sudhir (sastry.2@osu.edu) Ohio State Univ.; Singh, Rakesh (rsingh@uga.edu) Univ. of Georgia; Singh, R. Paul (rpsingh@ucdavis.edu) Univ. of California; Subbiah, Jeyam (jsubbiah2@unl.edu) Univ. of Nebraska; Torres, J. Antonio (J_Antonio.Torres@oregonstate.edu) Oregon State Univ.; Tumbleson, Mike (mtumbles@uiuc.edu) Univ. of Illinois; Wilson, Lester (lawilson@iastate.edu) Iowa State; Zhong, Qixin (qzhong1@utk.edu) Univ. of Tennessee;
Meeting summary (see Minutes Attachment for full meeting minutes):
The 2005 annual meeting of NC-136 was held at the ACES Library Heritage Room, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL on October 1-3, 2005. The meeting was chaired by M. Karwe (NJ) and hosted by G. Padua, H. Feng and colleagues (IL). This meeting was a combined meeting, the final meeting of NC-136 and the first meeting of NC1023.
Highlights of the meeting follow:
1. The focus of the meeting was to present research results with a focus on highlighting collaborative work among stations. Brief summaries are given of the oral station presentations in the full minutes.
2. The following stations submitted text documents for distribution: CA, DE, FL, GA, GU, IA, ID, IL, IN, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, ND, NE, NJ, NYI, OH, OR, PA, SD, TX, VA, WA, WI. Short (abbreviated) station reports are appended at the end of the full meeting minutes as Appendix A. Long station reports are posted on the NC-136/1023 website.
3. Administrative decisions
(a) Incoming secretary: Mark Morgan (IN)
(b) 2006 meeting will be hosted by VA (Virginia Tech) on Oct. 8-10, 2006
(c) Termination report for NC-136 will be completed by Chair Karwe, Vice-chair Muthukumarappan and Secretary McCarthy, with input from Station participants.
4. Ad hoc committee reports were presented for:
(a) Gel committee - Lester Wilson presenting. Report submitted as Appendix B, appended at the end of the full minutes.
(b) Modeling committee - Ashim Datta, chair and presenting.
Objective: Resources for computer-aided food process engineering.
Progress: Collaborative effort among several stations (TX, CA, NY, OH); 6 unit operation models completed.
Future: The next step is to add additional models, review, and publish.
(c) High pressure committee - Antonio Torres, chair and presenting.
Objective: Compilation of resources
Participating stations: OH, IA, PA OR, WA, NJ, VA, GA
Action item: E-mail will be sent by A. Torres for HP/reaction kinetics interest to propose the following activities for 2005-06: Characterization of HPP equipment and summary of capabilities, Depository of HPP literature, Request for co-authors for joint publication, Preliminary plan for a collaborative proposal to NRI on reaction kinetics under high temperature/high pressure, impact on food safety and quality.
(d) Oil quality committee- K. Mallikarjunan, chair; Muthu Muthukumarappan presenting.
Objective: evaluate oil quality by different methods
Participating stations: Stations: VA, TX, SD, ND, IA, IN
Progress: Kumar collected 4 qualities of oil; TX, SD, ND, VA, IA, IN evaluated by different methods; Muthu will send report when samples evaluated.
(e) New ad hoc committee formed: Nanotechnology committee.
Participants: MD, LA, DE, TN, TX, NE, IL, MO, IA
Others who may express interest: IN, NJ, NC
Action item: establish a mechanism for collaboration in nanotechnology for food applications; Chair Cristina Sabliov, Cristina will use e-mail listserve to contact stations to follow up.
The attached document lists publications (895), theses/dissertations (95) and patents (9) over the period from 2000-2005.