{"191271":{"#nid":"191271","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Manufacturing Brown Bag Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Innovation in Food and Poultry Processing\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER:\u0026nbsp; Doug Britton\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith the world population estimated to grow by 30% to 9.1 billion by the year 2050, and the realization that arable land is actually decreasing as a result, the old adage of \u201cdoing more with less\u201d is a distinct reality when it comes to the world\u2019s food production systems.\u0026nbsp;And within this conundrum lies an opportunity for transformational innovation in a domain that has been around as long as life itself \u2013 Food!\u0026nbsp;Agriculture and Food are not often the subject of traditional engineering or manufacturing educations, but given the challenges associated with feeding a growing world, the opportunities will fall in the collaborative spaces between the modern agricultural sciences and the core engineering disciplines.\u0026nbsp;This talk will present the variety of research activities ongoing in the Agricultural Technology Research Program at Georgia Tech.\u0026nbsp;We will also discuss the unique challenges of meeting food safety requirements, the manipulating food and poultry products that are not uniform, as well as some of the environmental impact considerations for a modern food manufacturing facility.\u0026nbsp; Finally, we will define and discuss transformational innovation with respect to the food and agriculture space, and talk about the opportunities for reinventing the animal agriculture production and processing facilities of the future.\u0026nbsp; What should they look like, and how do we get there?\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Manufacturing Brown Bag Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2013-02-12 09:58:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:02:33","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2013-02-25T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2013-02-25T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2013-02-25T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2013-02-25 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2013-02-25 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2013-02-25 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETina Guldberg\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tina.guldberg@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emailto:tina.guldberg@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech Manufacturing Institute\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E(404) 385-4950\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}