Dear Dr Wang,

Congratulations for the inauguration of the new technical journal, IJABE. I wish you the greatest success in this new venture.

The profession of Agricultural and Biological Engineering is at the forefront of many of the key issues facing the humans today-energy, maintaining environmental quality, feeding a growing world population, and so on. Our profession deals with these key issues by applying engineering principles and analysis to a wide spectrum of technologies, adding value and preserving food quality, managing ever tightening supplies of fresh water, developing and applying appropriate mechanization, applying systems science and IT to look at the big picture and to process the ever increasing mountain of data collected in our laboratory and field experiments. The bottom line is that Agricultural and Biological Engineers are working successfully to make the world a better place for all humans.

We live in an information age. Exchange of technical engineering information is more important today than ever before. Our profession has several excellent professional journals and yours will add significantly to those already operating.

I look forward to assisting you in any way I can. Best regards.

Sincerely,

         B.A. Stout

        Honorary President, CIGR and

             Professor Emeritus

        Texas A&M University