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Richard Scholtz
AISES Sequoyah Fellow
Richard V. Scholtz, III holds a B.S. (University of Florida, Gainesville 1997) in agricultural and biological engineering, M.E. (University of Florida, Gainesville 1999) in agricultural and biological engineering, and Ph.D. (University of Florida, Gainesville 2003) in agricultural and biological engineering. He has been with the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at the University of Florida since 2003. Dr. Scholtz has taught a wide variety of lecture and laboratory engineering courses at the upper-division level. Currently, Dr. Scholtz teaches design and the irrigation and drainage courses to Agricultural & Biological Engineering students, and the irrigation and the operations and systems courses to the Agricultural Operations Management students. He has taught the introductory water resources conservation engineering course for agricultural and biological engineering students, an applied hydraulics course for senior level undergraduates and beginning graduate students, as well as laboratory sections relating to power and machinery, and drainage and structural design courses. He has received recognition as an outstanding instructor, receiving the 2003 Florida Section of American Society of Agricultural Engineers Young Educator Award. Dr. Scholtz's research areas include experimental, field, and modeling investigations in the areas of natural resources conservation. Dr. Scholtz is the co-author of numerous journal articles and the text Mathematical Models of Crop Growth and Yield. Dr. Scholtz is a member-engineer of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), an associate-member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and an associate-member of Sigma-Xi. |
