Todd Van Hal

Todd Van Hal (1996, BS, Engineering) of John Deere was honored on Aug. 1, 2012 during an awards program at the ASABE Annual International Meeting held in Dallas, Texas at the Anatole Hilton Dallas he was the recipient of this ASABE award. Todd is the 2012 Sunkist Young Designer Award for his outstanding engineering and leadership skills and accomplishment in designing agricultural harvesting and cooling system equipment and in delivering and exceeding customer expectations around the world. Van Hal, senior engineer, combine cooling systems, John Deere Global Crop Harvesting Product Development Center, East Moline, Illinois, is leading cooling system configuration and design for worldwide combine programs. He is recognized as an expert in harvesting-vehicle cooling system design both internally at Deere and by cooling component suppliers. While a student at Iowa State University, Van Hal authored the 1995 winning K.K. Barnes Paper award entry, “Optimizing the Operation of a Quasi Ad-Libitum Electronic Feeding System for Gestating Sows in Loose Housing.” His other ASABE awards include a Student Engineer of the Year award, Mid-Central Regional Paper award. His work has received two patents.