FEDRO S. ZAZUETA [1]
Professor and Director
University of Florida,
Gainesville FL 32611
Tel:
(352) 392 0365 Fax: (352) 392 7065 Email:
fsz@ufl.edu http://fsz.ifas.ufl.edu
Ph.D. 1982 Agricultural
Engineering, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, USA.
M.S. 1978 Water Use and Conservation,
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey, N.L.,
México.
B.S. 1974 Civil Engineering,
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Monterrey,
N.L., México.
POSITIONS HELD
2002-Date University of
Florida Office of Academic Technology, Director and Professor
1997-2001 UF/IFAS
Information Technologies Office, Director.
1982-1997 Agricultural
and Biological Engineering Department, University of Florida, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor,
and Professor.
Served
as Coordinator of the IFAS Software Support Office.
1975-1979 Thermal, Fluids and Control Engineering
Department, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, "Profesor de Planta".
1974-1975 Civil Engineering
Department, Universidad de Sonora, Sonora, México, "Profesor de
Planta".
1989-date Agricultural
Engineering, Adjunct Professor, UNICAMP, Campinas, Brasil.
1992-date Agricultural
Engineering, Adjunct professor, Universidad de Concepción, Chillán Chile.
Have taught
and developed course at the undergraduate, and graduate level including
web-based courses and distance education courses using, video, satellite, WWW-based
and desktop videoconferencing technologies. In addition, numerous presentations
in state, national and international professional meetings, workshops and
training courses to industry and government agencies.
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Fluid Mechanics |
Undergrad. |
Universidad de Sonora |
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Mathematics I |
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Hydraulics |
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Hydromechanical Installations |
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Fluid Mechanics I |
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Tec. De Monterrey (ITESM) |
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Fluid Mechanics II |
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Fluid Mechanics Laboratory |
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Thermal engineering laboratory |
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Developed |
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Thermodynamics |
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Heat and Mass Transfer for
Biochemical Engineers |
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Developed |
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Trickle Irrigation Design |
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Developed |
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Soil and Water Engineering |
Undergrad. |
University of Florida |
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Irrigation in Florida |
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Developed |
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Drainage and Hydraulic Structures |
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Developed
WWW based course |
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Computers in Agriculture and Natural Resources |
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Developed
for Distance
Educ. |
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Advances in Microirrigation |
Graduate |
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Developed |
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Agricultural Software Engineering |
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Developed |
1998 Microirrigation
design and management. International
Irrigation Course. Córdoba, Spain. 5
days.
1997 Computer
aided design and management of irrigation systems. International
Irrigation Course. Chapingo, Mexico. 5 days
1996 Visual Programming. 6th International
Conference on Computers in Agriculture.
Cancun, México. 1 day.
1994 Geographic
Information Systems. 5th International
Conference on Computers in Agriculture.
Orlando, Florida. 1 day.
1993 Introduction
to biological simulation. Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del
Agua, Cuernavaca, México. 5 days.
1992 Rapid
prototyping of expert systems for agriculture.
INIA, Montevideo. Uruguay. 5 days.
1991 Microirrigation systems design,
installation and management. Curso
Internacional de Riego. Junta de
Andalucía. Dirección General de
Investigación y Extensión Agraria. Córdoba, España.
1990 Agricultural
Computing: Computer aided design and
expert systems. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Chapingo, Texcoco,
México. 3 days
1990 Computer
applications in agricultural water management. FUSADES, San Salvador. (Through INCAT, Miami, FL.) 3 days.
1990 Computer
aided microirrigation design and management course. Córdoba, Spain. Sponsored
by University of Córdoba. 3 days.
1989 Irrigation
technology course. Presentation to
engineers, credit officials and irrigation system managers on selection of
irrigation systems and the use of microirrigation in fruit crops. Banco de México, Torreon, Coah., México. 1 day.
1988 Microirrigation
Technology course to soviet engineering team (senior engineers of new Valmont
plant in the Soviet Union). VALMONT,
Valley, Nebraska. 6 days.
1988 Microcomputer
systems in agriculture. Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey, México.
3 days.
1987 Crop
and Irrigation Water Requirements. USAID, Hiderabad, Pakistan. 15 days.
1982 Drainage
engineering. University Hermanos Escobar, Cd. Juarez,
Chi. México. 3 days.
1981 Cadastral
and photogrammetric computer applications.
INALDAZ Ltda., Quito, Ecuador. 3 days.
1977 Hydraulics of
canals and wells.
Peerless‑TISA, Monterrey,
N.L., México. 3 days.
Selected Honors
2002 Outstanding
Leadership Award, ASAE (The Society for Engineering in Agriculture).
1999 Distinguished
Service Award, United States Department of Agriculture.
1998
Davis Productivity Award, Florida Tax Watch (Florida
Automated Weather Network).
1998
Outstanding Program Award, Epsilon Sigma Phi, National
Honorary Extension Fraternity.
1998 President's
Citation, ASAE (The Society for Engineering in Agriculture).
1997 Superior
Accomplishment, Employee of the year Award, IFAS-University of Florida.
1996 Directors
Citation. ASAE.
1994 Davis
Productivity Award, Florida Tax Watch (CD-ROM Development).
1990 Young
Engineer Award. ASAE, Florida
Section.
1988 Best Paper
Award, Florida State Horticulture Society.
1984 Best Paper
Award, co‑author. Florida State
Horticulture Society.
1978 Professor
of the year, ITESM. Monterrey, N.L, México.
· International Soil Science Society.
· ASAE, Society for Engineering in Agriculture.
· Soil and Crop Science Society of Florida.
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Florida Irrigation Society.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
·
eExtension ThinkTank. A national consortium of Land Grant
Universities. CSREES United States
Department of Agriculture.
· Member of the Food and Agriculture Committee for WFEO (World Federation
of Engineering Organizations), 1996-2001.
· Chairman of the Food and Agriculture Committee for UPADI (Unión
Panamericana de Asociaciones de Ingeniería), 1993.
· Chair or Co-chair of the International Conference on Computers in
Agriculture (The Society for Food and Agriculture in Engineering), 1982-date.
· Technical advisor to the Florida Irrigation Society, 1985-1994.
Research program has focused mainly on the
use of computer technologies for the improvement of design and management of
water resource systems. Recent work
includes techniques such as deterministic and stochastic simulation, GIS, DBMS,
conventional and real-time expert systems, neural networks, and data
acquisition and control. Work has
included research in theoretical hydraulics and two phase flow.
· Reduced Irrigation requirements of turf, West Coast Regional Water
Supply Authority, 1996-1998. $85,000.
· GIS for water use analysis and projections. 1993-1994. $70,000. SJR Water Management District.
· Bench-farm database manager. St.
John's Water Management District.
1990-91. $20,000.00
· Mobile Irrigation Laboratory Evaluation Software. West Coast Regional Water Supply Authority.
1989-1990. $10,000.
· Water requirements and crop coefficients for Strawberry production in
Southwest Florida. SW Fla. Water Mngmt.
Distrct., 1988-1991. $81,500.
· Real time expert control of irrigation systems. RTS. 1987.
$15,000.
· Tail-water recovery system to reduce water use. SW Fla. Water Mngmt.
Distrct., 1986-1988. $89,000.
· Rainwater harvesting for strawberry irrigation. 1985-1986. $50,000.
Selected Publications
Author of numerous research, extension and other publications, including books and software in use by industry.
Zazueta, F.S., A.J. Wilkening, H.W. Beck, L.A. Halsey and T. Hintz. A centralized/distributed model for information
technology resources. Computers in
Agriculture. 7th
International Conference Proc., ASAE. Pp. 292-299. 1998.
Albrigo, L.G., J.I. Valiente and F.S. Zazueta. Use of Internet
video-conferencing technology for distance education in agriculture. Computers in Agriculture. 7th International Conference
Proc., ASAE. Pp. 402-412. 1998.
R. Testezlaf, F.S. Zazueta, and T.H. Yeager. A real-time control system for greenhouses. Applied Engineering in Agriculture. ASAE. 0883-8542/1303-1329. 1997.
Zazueta, F.S., R.A. Bucklin, M. Turner, F.A. Chapman,
and A.M. Lazur. Aquaculture aeration
using irrigation porous pipe. Proc. 5th
Int. Irr. Congress. Orlando, FL.
ASAE. p. 37-42. 1995.
Zazueta, F.S., J. Xin, and A.G. Smajstrla. Simulation of soil-moisture sensors with linear errors. Soil and Crop Sci. Soc. of Fla. 1993.
Zazueta F.S., and A.G. Smajstrla.
Microcomputer based control of irrigation systems. Applied Agricultural Engineering. 1992. Vol.
8(5): 593-596.
Zazueta, F.S. (Invited Contribution) Agricultural Computing in the
United Sates. @groinformatica, Journal of the Dutch Society for Informatics in
Agriculture. 1991. 4(3):20-24.
Nass, I.A., F.S. Zazueta, and R.A. Bucklin. Microcomputer simulation of
heat transfer in tropical swine housing.
Journal of Agricultural Mechanization in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
1990. Vol. 21. No. 4, pp. 38-42.
Zazueta, F.S., A.G. Smajstrla, and D.Z. Haman. Computer aided design of landscape irrigation systems. Applied
Agricultural Research. 1989. Vol 4. No. 4, pp. 280-284.
Zazueta, F.S., and A.G.
Smajstrla. Computer control of
irrigation systems. Int. Plant Prop.
Soc. Proc. 38. 1988. 6p.
Zazueta, F.S., and A.G.
Smajstrla. Microcomputer aided
design and management of irrigation systems.
International Irr. Expo. and Tech. Conf. Proc. The Irrigation Assoc.
1987. 1988. 165-172.
Zazueta, F.S., A.G. Smajstrla, and D.S. Harrison. A simple numerical model for the prediction of soil‑water
flow from trickle sources. Soil and
Crop Sci. Soc. Fla. Proc. 44. 1985. 72‑76.
Zazueta, F.S., A.G. Smajstrla, and D.S. Harrison. Microcomputer control of irrigation systems. I:
Hardware and software considerations.
Soil and Crop Sci. Soc. Fla. Proc. 43. 1984. 123-129.
Zazueta, F.S., and D.B. McWhorter.
Stochastic simulation of agricultural drainage systems. (Simulación estocástica de sistemas
de drenaje agrícola). Academia Nacional
de Ingeniería. Memorias. 1. 1983. 174-179
Zazueta, F.S.
Optimal design of sprinkler irrigation systems.
(Diseño `óptimo' de sistemas de
riego por aspersión y su cálculo electrónico). Academia Nacional de Ingeniería, Memorias. 1. 1977. 192-197.
Selected Software:
WATER: A collection of 50 utilities for design, management and operation
of water resource systems. The package
covers such areas as irrigation design and management, ET and water requirement
estimations, drainage design, well hydraulics, open channel design, and soil
conservation.
PIGMALION: Computer aided software engineering tool for automated Pascal
code generation. including program structure, I/O mask drivers for standard devices and basic DBM
capabilities. Developed for GESA, México D.F., 1986.
VENT: Heat transfer simulation
of swine housing in tropical climate.
Developed in cooperation with
UNICAMP, Brazil, Univ. of Florida , USA.
Have been very active in international activities. Including promoting university exchange
programs, teaching, consulting, organizing international conferences and
hosting graduate and undergraduate visitors such as:
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International short term consulting in México, Panamá,
Ecuador, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Uruguay, Jamaica, Pakistan, Chile,
Argentina and Spain since 1976, in the areas of water management,
photogrammetry, GIS, expert systems, data acquisition and control, and computer
systems integration.
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Chairman of the International Conference on Computers in
Agricultural Extension Programs. ASAE
(American Society of Agricultural Engineers), 1998, 1997,1996, 1995, 1992,
1990, 1988, 1986, 1984.
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Initiated exchange programs between University of Florida
and universities in México, Spain, Brasil, Chile, and The Netherlands.
1993 Development of integrated
software for management of a canal network (módulo 3, Distrito de Riego
Delicias Chihuahua) serving 17,000 users, that includes database management,
GIS, biological simulation, hydraulic canal network simulation and expert
systems (2 year), Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua. IMTA, Cuernavaca, México.
1992 Troubleshooting
oil-well drilling rigs control software (4 days). PEMEX/ROTENCO. Chiapas, México.
1991 Consulting
on problems related to biological clogging of trickle irrigation systems,
fertilization practices and water management in nurseries in nurseries (5
days). FUSADES, San Salvador, El Salvador.
1991 Critical
review of environmental impact assesments of 24 hydro-agricultural development
programs in México. 13 days. World Bank.
1989 Provided
technical expertise on water management disputes arising design problems in
pumping systems for frost protection.
Congen Properties vs. Johnston Pump legal case (10 days). Henderson, Franklin, Sterns and Holt, Ft.
Myers, Florida.
1989 Analysis
of institutional computer system requirements (3 days). Universidad Agrícola Panamericana, El Zamorano, Honduras.
1989 Artificial
Intelligence in Manufacturing (2 days).
VITROTEC, Fideicomiso, Monterrey,
N.L., México.
1989 Feasibility
of microirrigation systems in the Caborca region. Give recommendation to surface irrigation and land grading
engineering company on extending their services to microirrigation. OVSSA. Caborca, Sonora, México.
1988 Range
lands water management. (1 week).
Consulting on solution of water management related problems along the
coast of Ecuador. Proyecto MEGALIT, US-AID, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
1986 Computer
code generator for applications interface with graphics editor and photogrammetric
software. ICFA International. México DF, San Antonio TX.
1985 Computer software and hardware development
for applications in analytic
photogrammetry, cadastral systems
and interactive graphic systems. Graficadora Electronica, S.A. (GESA), México, DF.
1982 Development
of a voice synthesizer software driver
under the CP/M operating
system. MI‑8, Ft. Collins, CO.
1982 Development of a real time clock software driver under
the CP/M operating system for Environmental Control Systems, Houston, TX.
1977 Development
of a simulation model for heat transfer
in plant production of bottles.
Fomento de Industria y
Comercio (FAMA). Monterrey,
N.L. México.
1977 In plant
evaluation of vortex separators
in textile combing. Leona Textil S.A., Monterrey, N.L., México
1976 Solution of
in‑plant problems related
to pump testing equipment. Jacuzzi, S.A., Monterrey N.L.,
México.
EXTENSION EXPERIENCE
Worked as an extension specialist since
1982 (60% appointment at UF/IFAS). Developed a successful program in water
management with an emphasis on computer applications. These efforts reached
beyond the immediate application in water management and had impact at an
institutional and state-wide level.
Provided Leadership for
Statewide Planning Programs:
FL028: Florida
Water Conservation. (1986-1991)
FL041: Florida Water Conservation. (1991-1996)
Software Support
Office.
Played a key role in
establishing this office. It was the
official support and distribution center for agricultural software for
UF/IFAS. Managed the office from 84-86
and 95-96.
Developed
software for water system design and management
Developed over 60 programs
designed for consultants, engineers and growers. These are marketed by the University of Florida.. These are widely used in Florida, the US and
internationally.
Founding member of the
CD-ROM Extension Information Delivery effort in Florida.
This became a major component of
the IFAS information delivery system. The system evolved into a web based
information delivery system.
Mobile
irrigation laboratory.
Developed a field irrigation
testing laboratory, including software for on field interactive
evaluation. The field lab is in use by
West Coast Regional Water Authority, Soil Conservation Service, and South
Florida Water Management District.
Linkages
Worked with many associations and agencies to effectively deliver knowledge and management tools to UF/IFAS constituents. For example, the Florida Irrigation Society, Grower associations, water management districts, USDA, SCS/NRCS, county agents and private individuals. This included the development of standards, design and management procedures and processes, specialized software and automated systems.
Conducted numerous extension programs, clinics and in-service training courses related to water use and conservation and information technologies in agriculture.