{"610617":{"#nid":"610617","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ECE Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E Will Cross\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker\u0026rsquo;s Title\u003C\/strong\u003E:\u0026nbsp; Electric Drive Systems Staff Engineer, John Deere\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeminar Topic:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E Electrification of agricultural machinery\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract of Talk: \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECredible projections of world population growth estimate a peak of nine billion people in the year 2050 from the seven+ billion today.\u0026nbsp; This larger population and increasing global affluence will drive a need for a doubling of global agricultural output over the same period.\u0026nbsp; This increased output must come from an increase in agricultural productivity, and John Deere will play a key role in helping farmers worldwide provide for these human needs.\u0026nbsp; Increased precision and productivity in farm machinery will come largely from electronics, sensors, field robotics, automation, electric drives, control systems, and other areas that require premier electrical and computer engineering talent.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAttend this presentation to see some of the interesting things John Deere does in the electrical and computer engineering field to engineer equipment that plays a part in feeding, clothing, and sheltering the world.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBiographical Sketch of the Speaker:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWill Cross received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Georgia Tech, in mechanical engineering and control systems. He joined John Deere to learn electrical engineering so that he could be a complete engineer designing and deploying electric drives on a variety of John Deere equipment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMr. Cross will present some of his work in deploying electric drive systems on Deere vehicles while giving an overview of the myriad contributions electrical and computer engineers make to the development of John Deere equipment.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWill Cross, Electric Drive Systems Staff Engineer - John Deere: \u003Cem\u003EElectrification of agricultural machinery \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Will Cross, Electric Drive Systems Staff Engineer - John Deere: Electrification of agricultural machinery"}],"uid":"27842","created_gmt":"2018-08-30 16:53:01","changed_gmt":"2018-08-30 19:12:34","author":"Ashlee Gardner","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2018-09-05T13:20:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2018-09-05T14:10:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2018-09-05T14:10:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2018-09-05 17:20:00","gmt_time_end":"2018-09-05 18:10:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2018-09-05 18:10:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"178826","name":"Andrea Comsa"},{"id":"178827","name":"career education"},{"id":"83481","name":"center for career discovery and development"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"1260","name":"Paul Steffes"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPaul Steffes\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-3128\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}