Congratulations to the outstanding students from the NC State Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering (BAE) for their recent honors earned at the 2017 American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) International Meeting.

The annual meeting took place July 16-19 in Spokane, Washington, with many BAE faculty and students attending and presenting.

Several students were recognized for their papers and presentations at the Student Awards Breakfast:

• Bin Cheng won second place in the Association of Overseas Chinese Agriculture, Biological and Food Engineers Graduate Student Paper Competition
• James Abdalla and Riley DeHority won second in the AGCO Student Design Competition
• Alison Deviney won first place in the KK Barnes Undergraduate Paper Contest
• Incoming BAE graduate student Kayla Kassa won third in the KK Barnes Student Paper Contest