Rate My Professor Amy Kaleita

In her teaching role, Kaleita delivers courses on soil and water conservation management and engineering, as well as analytical techniques for data and modeling. She initiated online instructional resources in 2007 in preparation for maternity leave and later supported her department's transition to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Kaleita has received numerous accolades for her educational and leadership contributions, including the James R. and Karen A. Gilley Academic Leadership Award from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers in 2025, the Massey-Fergusson Educational Gold Medal in 2023, Fellow of ASABE in 2020, the Gilbreth Award for Young Engineers from the National Academy of Engineering in 2013, the Superior Engineering Teacher Award from Iowa State University College of Engineering in 2010, the A. W. Farrall Young Educator Award from ASABE in 2008, and the Award for Early Achievement in Teaching from Iowa State University in 2006. Key publications include "Methodology for the use of DSSAT models for precision agriculture decision support" (Thorp et al., 2008), "Relationship between soil moisture content and soil surface reflectance" (Kaleita et al., 2005), "Development of an android app to estimate chlorophyll content of corn leaves based on contact imaging" (Vesali et al., 2015), and "Exploring multiscale object-based convolutional neural network (multi-OCNN) for remote sensing image classification at high spatial resolution" (Martins et al., 2020). Her scholarly impact supports the department's top-ranked graduate program in agricultural and biosystems engineering.