Georgia Tech Research Podcast
This episode of The Georgia Tech Research Podcast is an interview with Janaki Tambe, the new Director of GTRI's Project Management Office (PMO). She assumed that role May 1, reporting to the office of the COO. As the PMO Director, Janaki provides executive oversight and leadership to the PMO office. She will be responsible for maintaining a dynamic and productive team culture, fostering productive relationships across GTRI and Georgia Tech, securing project management work with GTRI laboratories, and providing best-of-class PM subject matter expertise to Department of Defense (DoD)...
info_outline Tech Connects: Jie XuGeorgia Tech Research Podcast
This Tech Connects podcast features Dr. Jie Xu, Principal Research Scientist and Chemical and Biological Systems Branch Head in GTRI's Aerospace, Transportation & Advanced Systems Laboratory (ATAS). Sensor Development for Rapid Chemical and Biological Detection The optical sensor development represents a collaborative endeavor supported by a diverse coalition of stakeholders. With support from federal agencies such as the USDA, EPA, NSF, and FDA alongside backing from the State of Georgia through the Agriculture Technology Research Program, and strategic partnerships with private...
info_outline Tech Connects: Comas HaynesGeorgia Tech Research Podcast
Comas Haynes is Principal Research Engineer in ATAS and the Materials/Energy Branch Head within the Intelligent Sustainable Technologies Division of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). Enhanced Chilling Automation for Georgia’s Poultry Processing Sector Enhancing the State of Georgia economic development is one of the four focal points listed in the GTRI mission statement. The enhanced chilling project is sponsored by the State of Georgia through the Agricultural Technology Research Program (ATRP), along with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a recent...
info_outline ATRP--Episode 14: Intelligent Sustainable Technologies Division (ISTD) Co-Op StudentsGeorgia Tech Research Podcast
This episode features a discussion with Austen and Jalan, the fall 2023 Intelligent Sustainable Technologies Division (ISTD) Cooperative Education (co-op) students. The co-op work-study program provides academic credit for structured work experiences, helping young people complete the school-to-work transition. The topics covered in this discussion include their experiences, their goals, and their pathway to a great career in research while gaining hands-on work experience with the Agricultural Technology Research Program (ATRP) projects. This episode is a great...
info_outline ATRP--Episode 13: ATRP Research on Peanuts--Georgia's Official State CropGeorgia Tech Research Podcast
There are five “P’s” in Georgia agriculture: Poultry, Pines, Peaches, Pecans, and Peanuts. This episode of the Georgia Tech Research Podcast deals with research by GTRI's Agricultural Technology Research Program (ATRP) on peanuts. Peanuts are the official state crop of Georgia. Annually, Georgia's peanut harvest is nearly half of the total yield of the United States. ATRP research focusing on peanuts is thus well in line with GTRI's Mission aim to "Enhance State of Georgia economic development."
info_outline Tech Connects: Ai-Ping HuGeorgia Tech Research Podcast
Center for Scalable and Intelligent-Automation in Poultry Processing (CSI-APP) This podcast highlights interdisciplinary research on a current four-year project that is being sponsored by the USDA. It is a collaboration among GTRI, Georgia Tech, Fort Valley State University, University of Arkansas and University of Nebraska. Its goal is to help modernize the poultry processing industry through novel forms of automation, the need for which has been dramatically demonstrated by the pandemic. Georgia is by far the US’s largest poultry producer. Poultry is a billion-dollar industry in the state...
info_outline ATRP --Episode 12: Dr. Konrad Ahlin-One Handed Rehang Exploratory ProjectGeorgia Tech Research Podcast
This episode of the Georgia Tech Research Podcast highlights a current research project under the Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Agricultural Technology Research Program (ATRP). Host Stephanie Richter, a GTRI Research Scientist, talks with Dr. Konrad Ahlin about his exploratory project called The One-Handed Rehang Device. Dr. Ahlin’s project aims to address an area of poultry processing that requires tedious, heavy, and repetitive motions for workers.
info_outline Tech Connects: Ilan SternGeorgia Tech Research Podcast
The DOD, DOE national laboratories, ARPA-E, and NASA are collaborating to reduce the cost, volume and weight of batteries while simultaneously improving battery performance (power, energy, durability) and resilience to abuse conditions and extreme temperatures. In addition to the current federal emphasis placed on battery and energy storage technology, the state of Georgia is positioned to become a regional and national leader in renewable energy technology. Manufacturing of electric vehicles and EV components is accelerating, especially in the Southeast. Tesla, Kia, Volkswagen, and Apple are...
info_outline ATRP 50th--Episode 11-Gary McMurray and Doug BrittonGeorgia Tech Research Podcast
This episode of the Georgia Tech Research Podcast is the eleventh in a special series commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Agricultural Technology Research Program (ATRP). Host Stephanie Richter, a GTRI Research Scientist, talks with Dr. Doug Britton, Program Manager--Agricultural Technology Research Program at Georgia Tech Research Institute, and Gary McMurray, Division Chief--Robotics, Modeling, & Sensing for Agriculture, at Georgia Tech Research Institute. They speak primarily from their roles at the intelligence Sustainable Technology...
info_outline ATRP 50th--Episode 10-Harrison Foundation Student InternsGeorgia Tech Research Podcast
This podcast episode is devoted to student support from the R. Harold and Patsy Harrison Foundation. Lance Barrett and Ryan Giometti were the 2022 selected student interns. They were the first recipients of the one-year funded internships made possible by an endowment from the R. Harold and Patsy Harrison Foundation. The internships are part of ATRP’s Abit Massey Student Internship Program, which provides Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) undergraduate students an opportunity to work alongside ATRP researchers on real-world challenges facing poultry production and...
info_outlineThis episode of the Georgia Tech Research Podcast begins a special series commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Georgia Tech Research Institute’s Agricultural Technology Research Program (ATRP). Host Stephanie Richter, a GTRI Research Scientist, talks with ATRP Director, Doug Britton. Dr. Britton speaks about his circuitous path from being an electrical engineer by training to his joining ATRP, and some of the lessons he’s learned and people he’s met along the path to being program director. Britton also discusses present and future technologies being researched by ATRP.
Talking Points
In this episode, listeners will hear about:
- Doug Britton’s early life; and how he was unwittingly prepared for his future career in agricultural technology.
- What drove Britton to look at agricultural commodities and products.
- The role of mentors in directing Britton’s career path.
- The types of research that ATRP is involved in.
- How advanced sensor platforms are being used in agriculture.
- Food safety research.
- Technology transfer and the future of agricultural technology.