INTEGRATED PLANT PROTECTION CENTER

Mid Columbia Research and Agricultural Experiment Center
Oregon State University
3005 Experiment Station Drive
Hood River OR 97031-9512
Ph: (541) 386-2030
Fax: (541) 386-1905
Email Ramalingam (Ram) Nagarajan

After earning his PhD in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from The Ohio State University, Ram joined Oregon State University as a Faculty Research Assistant,.assigned to the Mid Columbia Ag Research and Extension Center.

His responsibilities include being the main contact person for the sprayer technology project entitled “Evaluating and Demonstrating Sprayer Methods to Reduce Pesticide Air Drift from Orchards to Streams”; and to develop a research program in Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering pertaining to the apple, pear, and cherry orchard industries in the Mid-Columbia region.

Ram’s research interests are in the blending of the non-contact sensors and electro-mechanical control systems. Overall his interests are somewhat broader and include instrumentation and sensor design, image processing and analysis, feedback control systems, object-oriented programming, machine vision and robotics. These topics are not as scattered as they may at first appear. There are common threads running through them that could be used to integrate and exploit the rapid advances in technology to suit our research and development needs.