Faculty and Staff

Mohammad Sadek, Ph.D. Building: 08-104 Telephone: 805.756.2638 Email: mosadek@calpoly.edu

Dr. Sadek is an Assistant Professor in the BioResource and Agricultural Engineering (BRAE) Department. Prior to start at BRAE, he worked as a product development engineer at Buhler Industries Inc. in Canada.  Dr. Sadek received his PhD in Biosystems Engineering from University of Manitoba, Canada. Previously, he received his master’s degree in Agricultural Systems and Engineering from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand and bachelor degree in Agricultural Engineering from Bangladesh.

Dr. Sadek’s research interest is Discrete Element Modelling (DEM) in Agricultural machinery systems and biomaterial processing with a major focus towards advanced machinery design, automation, precision agriculture technology and food safety for agricultural production and post-harvest handling. Dr. Sadek has contributed in designing large scale agricultural machineries, product/tool innovation, process development and automation.

 

Specialization

Agricultural Machinery and Automation

Machine Biomaterial Interaction

Discrete Element Modelling (DEM)

Soil Dynamics

 

Teaching

BRAE 129

BRAE 302

BRAE 342

BRAE 403