Novel Dairy Processing Technologies

Megh R. Goyal, PhD, PE, is a Retired Professor in Agricultural and Biomedical Engineering from the General Engineering Department in the College of Engineering at University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Campus; and Senior Acquisitions Editor and Senior Technical Editor-in-Chief in Agriculture and Biomedical Engineering for Apple Academic Press Inc. He has worked as a Soil Conservation Inspector and as a Research Assistant at Haryana Agricultural University and Ohio State University. He was the first agricultural engineer to receive the professional license in Agricultural Engineering in 1986 from the College of Engineers and Surveyors of Puerto Rico. On September 16, 2005, he was proclaimed as Father of Irrigation Engineering in Puerto Rico for the twentieth century by the ASABE, Puerto Rico Section, for his pioneering work on micro irrigation, evapotranspiration, agroclimatology, and soil and water engineering. During his professional career of 45 years, he has received many prestigious awards, including being recognized as one of the experts who rendered meritorious service for the development of [the] irrigation sector in India by the Water Technology Centre of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in Coimbatore, India. A prolific author and editor, he has written more than 200 journal articles and textbooks and has edited over 25 books. Anit Kumar is PhD research scholar in the Department of Food Science and Technology at the National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, Kundli, Haryana, India. He has reviewed research articles and review papers for the Journal of Food Science and Engineering and Nutrition and Food Science. He is a member of the Indian Dairy Association. He has working experience in the dairy and mango industry and also worked as a research scholar (Junior Research Fellow) at NIFTEM, Kundli, India, on the topic Effect of microfluidization on the quality of fruit flavor and low fat yoghurt. He has also appeared on the NIFTEM YouTube where he demonstrated pedagogical and presentation skills through short films on the making process of patties, vanilla pastry and puff khari. He has received the best organizer award as a convener for NIFTEM Sports League at NIFTEM, Haryana, India. He has published several research articles and review papers in different international and national journals. He has also written several book chapters for different books. He has presented several oral and poster presentations at different international and national conferences. Anil K. Gupta, PhD, is owner of AG Family Dentistry, LLC, in Alexandria, Louisiana. He was previously a Medical Technologist at Huey P. Long Hospital, Pineville, Louisiana. Dr. Gupta, after completing his PhD (1994) from Haryana Agricultural University, worked in TERI (TATA Energy Research Institute, India) as a research associate, where he published several papers on soil and water. After coming to US in 1995, he retrained himself as a Medical Technologist.