University of Kurdistan
Hiwa Golpira
Associate professor
Biosystems Engineering
Dr. Golpira rejoined the University of Kurdistan as an assistant professor in the Department of Biosystems Engineering in 2009. Before joining UOK as a lecturer in 2002, Hiwa founded a company specializing in agricultural equipment manufacturing. He worked on automation for rain-fed wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and chickpeas (Cicer arietinum L.) cultivated in semi-arid arable lands, which resulted in four patents and two awards. His research aimed at improving the quality of life and assessing circular bioeconomy (CBE) sustainably and responsibly.
Teaching responsibilities
Undergraduate
Material Science & Engineering: crystals structure, metal, ceramic, alloys, stresses, endurance limit, failure, fatigue, hardness, resilience, toughness, carbon-steel diagrams, heat treatment, quenching, annealing, biomaterial
Design of Machine Elements: working stress, shaft and keys, spring, bolt and nuts, ball and roller bearings, clutch and brakes, belts and pulley, spur gears
Design of Harvesting Machinery: performance of cleaning system and aerodynamic properties of grain and MOG, Threshing and separation mechanism and functions, design of reel, harvesting losses reduction and calculation.
Graduate
FEM: global stiffness equation, boundary conditions, superposition, potential energy approach, beam analysis, truss equations, transformation matrix
Advanced Instrumentation: Errors, signal and noise, precision, accuracy, sensors and actuators (remote sensing, LIDAR, ultrasonic ...), wheatstone bridge, control and feed back, FFT, photoelasticity, reliability
Topics in Agriculture: Climate-smart circular bioeconomy (CSCB) that consider both productivity and environment via renewable agricultural resources for producing food, fiber, and fuel.
Research area
Hiwa modify the concepts by analyzing field evaluation data using mathematical models, hybrid computational algorithms and data-driven simulators. His research projects includes:
Conceptual design of a combined rotary blades with fixed wings for conservative tillage, 2002-2004
Modeling soil erosion in grassland hills converted to croplands, 2003-2028
Evaluation of grain combine harvesters losses in rainfed wheat, 2009-2010
Design of a special header for harvesting of rainfed chickpea, 2011-2016
Modeling the adoption of an enhanced wheat cultivar in Kurdistan province, 2017-2019,
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) to assess CBE in wheat-chickpea system, 2020-2025
Biomanufacturing for sustainable nutrient management, 2025-2030
Activities
Collaborating with Agricultural Robotic Laboratory, UPV, Spain, 2019-present
Associate Editor for CIGR Journal: Agricultural Engineering International, 2019-2024
Participation in 6th CIGR Next Leader Event, Germany, 2019
10-days visit to LfL and TUM, autonomous vehicles and CBE, 2022
Secretary of the CIGR Technical Section III: Plant Production, 2022-present
Member of the CIGR working group of CBE, 2023-present
Education:
Ph.D. Agricultural Engineering, TMU, 2009
Thesis: Conceptual design of a pod harvester for rain-fed chickpeas
Scholarship: MeBios, KU Leuven, Belgium, 2008
Activity: Soft computing for optimizing machine elements of grain combine harvesters
M.S. Agricultural Engineering, Shiraz University, 1998
Thesis: Mathematical modeling of the olive fruits during mechanical harvesting
B.S. Agricultural Engineering, Urmia University, 1996
Project: Design of an apple fruit harvesting mechanism
Latest publication:
(Markov model planning on the adoption of enhanced wheat)
