Carroll E. Goering

Background

Goering was born on June 8, 1934 in Platte Center, Nebraska, United States; the son of Herman Leopold Goering and Mabel Goering.

Education

Goering received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Nebraska in 1959. Three years later he earned his Master of Science degree from Iowa State University. Also in 1965, Carroll received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the same university.

Career

Goering served in the United States Army from 1954 to 1956. He began his career as a design engineer at International Harvester Company in 1959. Two years later he took the position of a research assistant at Iowa State University. Then in 1965, Carroll became an assistant professor of agricultural engineering at the University of Missouri. Four years later he was appointed an associate professor at the same university. In 1974, Goering held the position of a professor at the University of Missouri.

In 1977 he was appointed a professor of agricultural engineering at the University of Illinois. Goering was leader of the Off-Road Equipment Engineering area from 1985 until his retirement in 1999. He also chaired the department graduate committee during that time, overseeing the graduate student enrollment growth from 25 to 50 students. His research areas at Illinois were in bio-fuels, mechatronics, and precision agriculture. Goering spent all of 1984 on sabbatical leave in South Africa, where he instructed the South Africans on how to measure energy release rates from the fuel in a running engine.

Goering was author or coauthor of three textbooks, Engine and Tractor Power, Engineering Principles of Agricultural Machines, and Off-Road Vehicle Engineering Principles. In addition to advising MS and PhD candidates, Goering advised numerous undergraduate students on their research projects. Nine of these undergraduate theses grew into refereed publications in national journals.

Achievements

• Carroll Goering was on the incomplete list of excellent teachers 24 times. He was awarded the senior teaching excellence award from the College of ACES and the Everitt award for teaching excellence from the College of Engineering. He was a member of the ACES Academy of Teaching Excellence from 1995 to 1999. He was also awarded a Funk Award by the College of ACES. Two of his research publications won ASABE outstanding paper awards and two others won honorable mention.
  
  Nine times, Goering was awarded presidential citations for
  
  distinguished service to the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. One of these was for helping the society implement an electronic library. Another was for serving on the 3-member committee of the board of directors that rewrote the constitution to decentralize the society. Another was for setting up a system for periodic dues review and for setting appropriate dues rates. The
  
  other six citations were for authoring new or revised textbooks. Goering was also awarded the Massey-Ferguson Educational Medal and the McCormick-Case Gold Medal and was elected an ASABE Fellow.
  
  The BioSystems Engineering Department at the University of Nebraska elected Goering to their department hall of fame in 2002.

Membership

Goering was heavily involved in the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers activities, including twice chairing the Power and Machinery division, serving on the ASAE board of directors and on the board of the ASABE Foundation. While chairing the Power and Machinery division, he led the development of the Agricultural Equipment Technology (AETC) series that still continues annually.

Goering is also a member of the American Society for Testing and Materials, American Society of Engineering Education and Society of Automotive Engineers.

Connections

On October 29, 1960 Carroll Goering married Carol Ann.

Father:

Herman Leopold

Mother:

Mabel Goering

Spouse:

Carol Ann