Presenting the 2025 Award Winners

Here's to the 2025 Class of ASABE Fellows and to our award, competition, and scholarship winners. Enjoy this recap of all the year's honorees, many of whom were recognized at the 2025 Annual International Meeting, in Toronto.

Scroll down to see the complete list.
 

Major Awards Nominations Continue to October 31

We're proud to offer an outstanding array of awards, competitions, and honors in support of professional excellence, and now is the time to consider submissions for 2026 major awards.

Nominations are open now and due October 31. Questions? Please contact Awards Administrator Corey Sayles. 

2025 ASABE Fellows

Major Awards

Gold Medal Winners



McCormick Case Gold Medal 
Robert T. Burns, PE

John Deere Gold Medal
Roger M. Hoy

Massey-Ferguson Educational Gold Medal 
Ann L. Kenimer, PE

 

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Presidential Citations

2025 Davidson Prize

Selected from 2025 AE50 winners

Bondioli & Pavesi, Inc. – E.D.I. (Electronic Data Interchange) Driveshaft 
This groundbreaking technology improves power transmission efficiency while providing real-time monitoring and diagnostics, ensuring optimal performance in the field.

Conference Recognitions

• Cale Boriack, chair, Agricultural Equipment Technology Conference, February 9-12 2025 Louisville, Kentucky

Student Competitions

International 1/4-Scale Tractor Student Design Competition
 

1st Place — North Carolina State University
2nd Place — (Tie) Kansas State University, South Dakota State University
4th Place — University of Kentucky
5th Place — Purdue University

AGCO National Student Design Competition

1st Place — Sophia Perry, Emma Masters, Salvatore Schille, and Michel Wilcox, The Ohio State University, Investigation of Particle Interactions in Simulated Lower Gravity for Crop Production Systems

2nd Place — Alexandra Anthony and Daniel Pruitt, University of Arkansas, Automated Levee Gate Implementation in Rice Irrigation 

3rd Place — Austin Johnson, Jackson Fortenberry, and Nathan Michalik, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Design of a Continuously Monitored Small-Scale Hop Dryer

Bioprocess Startup Competition

1st Place — Ryan Sarhan, Keya Rani Roy, and Suvro Talukdar, University of Kentucky, "Mycillage" 

2nd Place— Ayden Kemp, Clay Dorrill, Pravalika Boini, Sagar Kafle, Sudip Sapkota, and Dale Hartmann, Auburn University, "Bio Seal Mulch"

3rd Place — Biocorshield: Vivian Usha, Edith Ngoupeyou, and Natacha Kakama, Auburn University, "Green Anti-Corrosion Coating"
 

Robotics Competition

1st place —T-Sipper from Zhejiang University
2nd place— Machine Family from Zheijiang University
3rd place — California Polytechnic

1st place — Cornell University
2nd place — Winged Tiger from Zhejiang University
3rd place — University of California, Davis

K.K. Barnes Student Paper Award Competition

1st Place – Marcin Warzecha, University of Illinois, Electrolysis of HTL-AP Wastewater for Nutrient Recovery

2nd Place – Caden Wade, Michigan State University, Monitoring Leaf Wetness Dynamics in Corn and Soybean Fields using an IoT (Internet of Things)-Based Monitoring System

3rd Place – Megan Ransler, Michigan State University, Development of Low-Cost Homemade Infiltrometer for Characterizing Root Types with Infiltration Rates
 

2025 Fountain Wars Champions – Kansas State University

Fountain Wars

1st Place and Special Award for Economy of Design — Kansas State University

2nd Place and Special Awards for Economy of Design and Proposed Technical Task — Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

3rd Place and Special Award for Innovative Design — University of Florida

Special Award for Proposed Technical Task — University of Arkansas and Michigan State University

Special Award for Most Attractive — North Carolina State University
 

Gunlogson Environmental Design Student Competition

1st Place — Ella Fox, Julieanna Lara-Vasquez, Adrianna Rossetti, and Mitchell Willis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Spruce Lick Aquatic Organism Passage Design

2nd Place — Perry Berlin, Jackson Evans, Grace Sullivan, and Evelynn Wilcox, North Carolina State University, Improved Oyster Mariculture System Enhances Safety and Value

3rd Place – Maggie Scarborough, Sarah Leach, Samantha Weatherly, Justin Lytle, and Richard Melia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,Hybrid Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment
 

Boyd-Scott Graduate Research Award

1st Place — Manavjot Singh, Kansas State University, 
Towards Agricultural Sustainability: Exploring the Potential of Biochar Pellets for Phosphorus Loss Reduction from Tile-Drained Agroecosystems

2nd Place — Srikanth Gorthi, Washington State University, A Bayesian Regression Approach for Estimating Photosynthetically Active Radiation using Satellite Data: Implications for Soybean Yield Prediction using the CropGro Model

3rd Place — Edith Laure Yonguep Ngoupeyoum, Auburn University, Novel Hempseed Protein Adhesive Plywood Applications 

1st Place — Sandeep Dhakal, The Ohio State University, SpotChecker: An Artificial Intelligence-Guided Web Tool for Spot Anthracnose Detection in Flowering Dogwood

2nd Place — Shivani Rana, Michigan State University, Characterization of Soil Pores in Strip-Tilled and Conventionally Tilled Soil using X-ray Computed Tomography

3rd Place — Ayushi Pandey, Texas A&M University, AGIcam+: Performance Comparison of an In-Field Multispectral and Thermal Sensor System with UAV Imaging for Wheat Drought Stress Monitoring

Student Honor Award

AIM Student Oral/Poster Presentation Competition

Scholarships & Fellowships

Outstanding Editors and Reviewers

Superior Paper Awards

• Travis A. Burgers, Kusha Kamarei, Mukund Vora, Matthew Horn, “An Automated On-the-Go Unloading System Reduces Harvest Operator Stress Relative to Manual Operation,” Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health 30(3)

• Jie Li, Li Qingqing, Jiangwei Qiao, Li Li, Jian Yao, Jingmin Tu, “Organ-Level Instance Segmentation of Oilseed Rape at Seedling Stage Based on 3D Point Cloud,” Applied Engineering in Agriculture 40(2)
• Joe Dvorak, Bo Smith, “Powering In-Field Continuous Robotic Systems Using Solar Energy Systems,” Journal of the ASABE 67(3)
• Jiajun Xu, Yuzhen Lu, Boyang Deng, "Design, Prototyping, and Evaluation of A New Machine Vision-Based Automated Sweetpotato Grading and Sorting System,” Journal of the ASABE 67(5)

• Keagan J. Blazer, Kevin J. Shinners, Aaron J. Timm, Matthew F. Digman “Evaluation of a Process to Separate Ensiled Corn Grain and Stover for Improved Utilization as a Biomass Feedstock”
  Journal of the ASABE 67(1)
• Eric Mozzanini, Dattatray G. Bhalekar, Marco Grella, Gwen-Alyn Hoheisel, Shar Samy, Paolo Balsari, Fabrizio Gioelli, Lav R. Khot, “Cleaning Performance Evaluation of Pneumatic Spray Delivery Based Solid Set Canopy Delivery System,” Journal of the ASABE, 67(4)

• Natasha L. Bell, Neelam R. Redekar, Steven N. Jeffers, Daniel R. Hitchcock, Jennifer L. Parke, Sarah A. White ,“A Model System to Evaluate the Potential of Floating Treatment Wetlands to Manage Phytophthora species in Recycled Irrigation Water” Journal of Natural Resources and Agricultural Ecosystems 2(3)
• Sayantan Samanta, Dianna Bagnall, Srinivasulu Ale, Cristine L.S. Morgan, Christine C. Molling, “Modeling Tillage Effects on Plant-Available Water by Considering Changes in Soil Structure,” Journal of the ASABE 67(3)
• William J. Elliot, “Runoff and Erosion Following a Prescribed Fire on a Sagebrush-Steppe Rangeland in Idaho, USA,” Journal of the ASABE 67(6)
• Jane Frankenberger, Sara K. W. McMillan, M. R. Williams, Katy Mazer, Jared Ross, Brent Sohngen, 
  “Drainage Water Management: A Review of Nutrient Load Reductions and Cost Effectiveness,” Journal of the ASABE 67(4)

• Charles D. Sebright, Samantha M. Neeno, Allan P. Schinckel, Robert Merton Stwalley III, “The Heat Transfer Properties of a Stainless Steel Sow Cooling Pad Variant,” Applied Engineering in Agriculture 40(4)

• Kaushik Luthra, Abass Oduola, Alan Vazquez, Griffiths Atungulu, "A Statistical Approach to Understanding How Inter-Kernel Moisture Content Variability Affects Rice Quality,” Journal of the ASABE 67(4)

ITSC Community Paper Awards

• Yu Tian, Xintong Jiang, Jan Franklin Adamowski, Shangpeng Sun: "Soybean-PCMAE: Perturbation Consistent Masked Autoencoders for Few-shot Segmentation of 3D Soybean Point Clouds"
• Lizhi Jiang, Changying Li, Peng W. Chee, Longsheng Fu: "Neural Radiance Fields for Plot-level Cotton Crop Three-dimensional Reconstruction and Yield Estimation"
• Siddhartha Bhattacharya, Chaaran Arunachalam, Kaixiang Zhang, Jiajia Li, Renfu Lu, Zhaojian Li: "Robust 3D Apple Localization in Robotic Harvesting Using Deep Learning and Spatial Clustering"

Educational Aids Blue Ribbon Awards

Electronic

• Stacia Conger, Md Adilur Rahim, Shifat Mithila, Andrew Garcia, Robert Rohli, Carol Friedland, Meggan Franks, “DIRT”; LSU AgCenter
• Peter Larbi, "Airblast Spray Advisor" Web App; University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources

• John Linhoss, Mark Dougherty, Megan Slatton, “Undergraduate Research: Improving the Student Experience (URISE) Auburn University

• Sushant Mehan, Mirzakhani Nafchi, Xufei Yang, Logan Vandermark, Jameson Brennan, Sarah Sellars, "Ag Cybersecurity and Social Engineering 101”, South Dakota State University

Websites

Publications

• Lilong Chai and Casey Ritz, “Litter Acidification for Controlling Ammonia Levels in Poultry Houses”; University of Georgia
• Andrea Ludwig, Michael Ross, Mia Roark, Sue Choi “Rain Gardens for Tennessee: A Homeowner’s Guide”; University of Tennessee

• Heather Nix, Debabrata Sahoo, Sarah White, John Hains, Ibrahim Busari “Harmful Algal Blooms: Prevention, Response, and Avoidance Manual”; Clemson University

Standards Developer Awards

• ASAE D271.3 DEC2023, Psychrometric Data, PRS-702, Crop and Feed Processing and Storage, Subcommittee X271
• ANSI/ASABE S611 JUN2023, Collecting, Processing, and Visualizing Geographic Harvest Data, MS-54, Precision Ag
• ANSI/ASABE S613-1.1 MAY2023, Tractors and Self-Propelled Machinery for Agriculture — Air Quality Systems for Cabs — Part 1: Terminology and Overview, MS-23/2/1, Environment within Ag Vehicle Enclosures

• ANSI/ASABE S631 APR2023ED, Machine Vision Method of Forage or Biomass Particle Size and Size Distribution, PRS-701, Physiochemical Properties of Biological Products
• ASABE S658-1 DEC2023, Singulating Seeding Equipment Test Methods Part 1: General Information ASABE S658-2 DEC2023, Singulating Seeding Equipment Test Methods Part 2: Monitoring Systems Performance ASABE S658-3 DEC2023, Singulating Seeding Equipment Test Methods Part 3: Seed Spacing Performance under MS-49, Crop Production Systems, Machinery and Logistics