New series of USDA funded horticultural engineering teaching modules available on YouTube

Over the past couple of decades, the number of North American institutions that teach horticultural engineering courses as part of an undergraduate curriculum in agricultural engineering programs has steadily declined. However, the need for engineers trained in all aspects of controlled environment crop production has not.

For this reason, a team of researchers from Ohio State University, the University of Arizona, Rutgers University, and Davidson & Company were able to secure funding from the USDA to develop a series of 53 teaching modules that are now being used at the participating institutions as well as made available to the general public.

The teaching modules can be used as stand-alone instructional tools, or combined to form an entire course as an introduction to horticultural engineering.

The modules are available at the YouTube Channel titled ‘Horticultural Engineering Technology’: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsD2oKzVv1B_GtumyKKE8LA

For more information:
A.J. Both
Rutgers University
Department of Environmental Sciences
[email protected]
aesop.rutgers.edu

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