David C. Ludington brings five decades of experience in energy in agriculture. This includes 35 years as Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Cornell University. During that period he taught courses in electricity, refrigeration, energy technology, water pollution, environmental technology and others.
Dr. Ludington founded the Cornell Agricultural Energy Program (CAEP) in 1989. As Director he helped establish seven demonstration farms that showed the farm public what can be accomplished through the use of sound energy management technologies. He also served as Department Extension Leader.
His activities in the past 25 years have focused on energy conservation for farms. One research project he directed resulted in two patents on using adjustable speed drives with feed-back control for vacuum pumps. More recently investigations have focused on ASD to conserve energy and water in milk cooling.
In the fall of 1995 Dr. Ludington retired from Cornell University and was named Professor Emeritus. That same year he founded his own company; DLtech, Inc. There he has continued the work that he was doing at Cornell. Recently he has directed work in anaerobic digestion on dairy farms.
David earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Agricultural Engineering from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from Purdue University. He is a 50 year member of ASABE.