Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11106
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12 pages., From the file, "England - Royal Agricultural College" in the international file of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois., Unpublished report., Describes an exploratory trip by agricultural journalism/communications professors Delmar Hatesohl, University of Missouri, and Jim Evans, University of Illinois. Through the schedule they invited ideas/suggestions from selected agricultural media and communications units of agricultural organizations in England, Ireland, and Scotland about the feasibility of study tours/exchanges to give students an international outlook. Findings confirmed excellent opportunities.
Ruiz-Carpio, Miguel Rafael (author), Safai, Cyrus (author), Djobo, Arafat (author), Gaichuk, Ivan (author), and Safai, Nick M. (author)
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Paper
Publication Date:
2018
Published:
International
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: D10863
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Poster/paper published in proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education annual conference and exposition, Salt Lake City, Utah. 2018, pages 1-15., Motivating, promoting interest in teaching engineering subjects is always a challenge for undergraduate engineering students especially for junior and lower level students. This approach also brought social awareness to members of the group, as well as tolerance and responsibility. It also emphasized to the students a tolerant and an open-minded world, now and forevermore. A group of multinational, multicultural undergraduate students at Salt Lake Community College, majoring in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Computer engineering are working on a project involving vertical farming, hydroponic watering, and making the plant growing process smart.
Food and its availability is of major concern in all nations, especially the underdeveloped communities. Students get exposed to different engineering disciplines, and learn how to work in a multicultural team and become socially responsible in an ever increasing connected world. Each student also becomes a teacher to other students at times discussing his specialty and field of engineering.