Tingting ZhangTingting Zhang

Overview

Affiliation

School of Intelligent Manufacturing, Hubei University

Academic position

Lecturer and Master's Supervisor

Academic email

zhangtingting@hubu.edu.cn

Her research combines mechanical design, intelligent control and agricultural production, with a focus on equipment and energy use. She serves as a provincial science and technology commissioner and supports industry–university collaboration and student innovation.

Research interests

• Theory and design of intelligent agricultural equipment
• Precision agriculture and agricultural robotics
• Biomass energy technologies for carbon reduction

Appointments

1. June 2025–present: Lecturer, School of Intelligent Manufacturing, Hubei University.
2. January 2019–May 2025: Lecturer and Master's Supervisor, College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Shandong Agricultural University.
3. December 2019–July 2023: Postdoctoral researcher in Agricultural Engineering, Shandong Agricultural University.

Research & teaching projects

• Multifield, multiscale mechanics of soil adhesion at soil–tool interfaces during agricultural machinery operations
  Principal investigator of a 2026 Hubei Natural Science Foundation Young Scientists Category B project studying interface mechanics in agricultural equipment.
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• AI + OBE: A dual approach to smart teaching in intelligent manufacturing programs
  Principal investigator of a 2025 Hubei provincial undergraduate teaching reform project combining outcome-based education and AI to improve courses and practical teaching.
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Selected publications

1. Tingting Zhang, Yao Lu, Zeguang Lu. A flame-retardant corn straw brick (FRCSB): Thermal stability, flammability and flame-retardant mechanism.
   Construction and Building Materials, 2023, 401: 132927.
2. Wanzhi Zhang, Qian Zhu, Tingting Zhang, Hongjuan Liu, Guizhi Mu. Design and control of a side dense transplanting machine for sweet potato seedlings on mulch film.
   Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2024, 224: 109193.
3. Song Li, Chen Huang, Jinping Liu, Tingting Zhang. Development of a reduced n-heptane/toluene/tetrahydrofuran mechanism for dual-fuel engine combustion prediction.
   Fuel, 2022, 326: 124914.

Selected from the official school profile. See the original for the complete list.

Honors & awards

• 2025: Second Prize, Second Hubei Agricultural Machinery Innovation Design Competition, for a horizontal sweet-potato transplanter.
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• 2025: Provincial Third Prize, Seventh Hubei Gongyou Cup Employee Entrepreneurship and Innovation Competition, for intelligent sweet-potato production equipment.
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