Muhammad Ehtasham Akram
Ph.D. Candidate Department of Biological Systems Engineering University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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I have completed my Master’s in Food Engineering in 2018 and bachelor’s in the same discipline in 2015 from the Department of Food Engineering, University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) - Pakistan. Minimizing post-harvest losses caught my attention during my Master's, and as my master's research and thesis, I chose to design and develop a mango pulp extractor to meet the needs of the cottage industry. This work has been published in an international Journal. I worked as a Lecturer in the Department of Food Engineering at the UAF from July 2016 to June 2022. My major duties were research, teaching, and lab work for both undergraduate and graduate students. I have taught several food engineering-related courses at the UAF during the course of my career. As a PhD candidate in the department of Biological Systems Engineering, I started attending the University of Nebraska – Lincoln in 2022. I am being supported by a National Science Foundation project “BioWRAP - Bioplastics with Regenerative Agricultural Properties” Graduate Research Assistantship. My research area is Biopolymer Engineering, and I am conducting research to create a set of bio-based polymers that can be used as sprayable mulch in agricultural production.