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Research/Focus Areas
  • Biofuel
  • Biorobotics
Academic Programs
My Courses
  • BAE 441/541:Instrumentation and Measurements
  • BAE 462: Electrical Power and Controls
  • ASM 305: GPS and Precision Agriculture
  • BAE 404: Bio Image Processing and Computer Vision
Keep twisting ideas until you find a workable one, make it perfect and then start over again .

Dev Shrestha, Ph.D.

College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Associate Professor

Campus Locations
Moscow

With UI Since
2004
Office: J.W. Martin Laboratory, Room 81 B
Phone: 208 885 7545
Email: devs@uidaho.edu
Mailing Address:
81 JML
6th and Perimeter Drive
Moscow, ID 83844-2060

  • Ph.D., Iowa State University, Agricultural Engineering / Electrical Engineering, 2004
  • MS, Asian Institute of Technology, Agricultural and Food Engineering, 1999
  • BS, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Agricultural Engineering, 1997

Dev Shrestha is an Associate Professor at University of Idaho. His research is mainly in biofuel area and working on different aspects of biodiesel research. His research includes life cycle energy balance study, biodiesel quality sensor development and study of cold flow behaviors. Dr. Shrestha has published several research papers related to biodiesel. One of his papers compares several energy life cycle analysis studies, and sets a guideline for defining energy balance for consistency and interpretation.


Dr. Shrestha’s another research focus is in Instrumentation and Robotics. He used machine vision to detect weed identification in corn fields. He developed in-field biodiesel blend sensor and biosensor for biodiesel quality detection. He developed an automated soil sampler to retrofit potato combine harvester for continuous soil sample collection. His teaching area includes, Instrumentation, Power and Controls and Precision Agriculture. 



Selected Publications

  • Zawadzki A., D. S. Shrestha. 2009. Glycerol sensing in biodiesel using turbidimetry. Transactions of the ASABE. 52 (4):1261-1265
  • Pradhan A., D.S. Shrestha, J. Van Gerpen, J. Duffield. 2008. The energy balance of soybean oil biodiesel production: a review of past studies. Transactions of the ASABE 51(1): 185-194
  • Shrestha D.S., J. Van Gerpen, J. Thompson.2008. Effectiveness of cold flow additives on various biodiesel, diesel and their blends. Transactions of the ASABE. Transactions of the ASABE 51(4): 1365-1370.
  • Shrestha, D.S., B.L. Steward, and S.J. Birrell. 2004. Video processing for early stage maize plant detection. Biosystems Engineering, 89(2): 119-129.
  • Shrestha, D.S., G. Singh, and G. Gebresenbet. 2001. Optimizing design parameters of a mouldboard plough. Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research 78(4): 377-389.

Research Projects

For more information Visit my personal page at:
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~devs/


Awards and Honors

  • Best Academic Advisor Award. Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering. University of Idaho. 2010.
  • Taiganides Award for outstanding Ph.D. student from Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Department, Iowa State University.2004
  • Teaching Excellence award from Iowa State University, Ames Iowa. May 2003.
  • International Leadership Award from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, May 2003.
  • IET select paper award from Information and Electrical Technologies division at ASAE 2003 annual international conference, Sacramento, CA.