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Journal of Materials Science and Nanotechnology | Volume: 3

March 20-21, 2019 | London, UK

Materials Science and Materials Chemistry

International Conference on

oday, as a branch of global machinery industry, the

agricultural machinery design and manufacturing or

agricultural engineering industry has become one of the most

important industries to be supported and focussed on in the

era of hunger threats foreseen in the world’s future. Increasing

world populations can be considered as the key trigger on this

issue. Global food/agricultural production has become vitally

important as the current world population is rapidly increasing

and is expected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030, 9.7 billion in 2050

and 11.2 billion in 2100. In order to produce sufficient volumes

of food from current limited agricultural land, well-designed

machinery and high technology-supported mechanisation

of the agricultural production processes is a vital necessity.

However, although novel improvements are observed in this

area, they are very limited, it is seen lack of implementation of

advanced engineering design and manufacturing technologies

in this industry (relative to the other machinery industries)

therefore agricultural engineering research area can be

considered as a potential engineering research area under

shadow. Most especially, this area suffers from a lack of

professional leadership andmanagement inmodernmachinery

technology, and the ability to tackle problems in optimal

design and manufacturing issues. This study aims to highlight

the potentials, gaps, sector specific challenges and limitations

of the agricultural engineering research area in macro level.

In the study some of the key statistics related to agricultural

production and agricultural machinery market in global range

have been presented and focused on Turkey’s current situation

as this industry and research area in Turkey shows promise

because of the agricultural production potential of the country.

Under consideration of the sector specific indicators, the study

revealed the major result: Insufficient level of sector-specific

research on implementation strategies for up-to-date design

and manufacturing technologies.

Speaker Biography

Huseyin Kursat Celik completed his BSc and MSc degrees at the Department of

Mechanical Science Education in Kocaeli University (Turkey). He completed his Ph.D.

study at the Department of Agricultural Machinery in Akdeniz University (Turkey). His

main research interests are related to Computer Aided Design & Engineering,

Engineering Simulations, Finite Element Method, Structural Optimisation, Material Testing,

Experimental Stress Analysis, Design of Agricultural Machinery / Equipment, Reverse

Engineering and Additive Manufacturing Applications. He has excellent professional/

practical experience in machinery design - manufacturing industry and academia for more

than ten years. He has been certified as an advanced user for related engineering design

and simulation software. He has taken part in funded scientific industry jointed research

projects in Turkey and in the UK (Lancaster University) and he has more than 60 published

papers in the peer-reviewed journals, congress/conference proceedings and industrial

magazines both in national and international scientific arenas. He is a member of academic

staff in Akdeniz University in Turkey and he has been a visiting researcher on a yearly basis

at Lancaster University in the UK since 2009.

hkcelik@akdeniz.edu.tr

Huseyin Kursat Celik

Allan E W Rennie

and

Ibrahim Akinci

Akdeniz University, Turkey

Lancaster University, UK

A potential research area under shadow in engineering: Agricultural machinery design

and manufacturing