Administrative Fundamentals of Ecological Competence Forming in Agricultural Engineering Students Under Conditions of Their Professional Training

2021 ◽  
pp. 697-706
Author(s):  
Viktor Nagayev ◽  
Iryna Danchenko ◽  
Tetiana Mitiashkina ◽  
Vecheslav Kyrepin
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Agricultural Engineering

scholarly journals A Geospatial Thinking Multiyear Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 4586
Author(s):  
Carlos Carbonell-Carrera ◽  
Jose Luis Saorin ◽  
Stephany Hess-Medler
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Water Flow ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Stream Water ◽  
Landscape Management ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Agricultural Engineering ◽  
Geospatial Thinking

In the field of environmental sustainability and landscape management, geospatial thinking is necessary. A good level of geospatial thinking is related to academic success in engineering degrees. It is relevant, therefore, to detect the possible deficiencies that university students may have in tasks related to geospatial thinking. This research presents the results of a 2014‒2019 multiyear study with agricultural engineering students, in which seven geospatial tasks were analyzed. The statistical analysis shows that geospatial tasks related to slope, stream/water flow, visibility, and relief interpretation are the best at predicting the final course mark. The present research provides quantitative data on the efficiency that four technologies have to reinforce geospatial thinking focused on each task. Augmented Reality is an appropriate 3D technology for geospatial tasks related to route search, stream/water flow, and elevation points. SketchUp Make 2017 and Autodesk 123D Make showed their potential to solve tasks related to terrain slope and visibility analysis. Spatial Data Infrastructure has given the best results in geospatial tasks related to the photointerpretation of the relief and with topographic profiles of the terrain. Our findings will help teachers to select the most appropriate geospatial tasks to include in their courses.

Precision Agriculture for Grain Production Systems

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett Whelan ◽  
James Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Grain Production ◽  
Efficient Manner ◽  
Agricultural Engineering ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
The Impact

Precision Agriculture (PA) is an approach to managing the variability in production agriculture in a more economic and environmentally efficient manner. It has been pioneered as a management tool in the grains industry, and while its development and uptake continues to grow amongst grain farmers worldwide, a broad range of other cropping industries have embraced the concept. This book explains general PA theory, identifies and describes essential tools and techniques, and includes practical examples from the grains industry. Readers will gain an understanding of the magnitude, spatial scale and seasonality of measurable variability in soil attributes, plant growth and environmental conditions. They will be introduced to the role of sensing systems in measuring crop, soil and environment variability, and discover how this variability may have a significant impact on crop production systems. Precision Agriculture for Grain Production Systems will empower crop and soil science students, agronomy and agricultural engineering students, as well as agronomic advisors and farmers to critically analyse the impact of observed variation in resources on crop production and management decisions.

scholarly journals ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT FOR THE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF BARCHELORS IN AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING IN THE INFORMATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (37) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
N. Dotsenko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Agricultural Engineering ◽  
Education Environment ◽  
Independent Work

The article presents the organizational support for the professional training of bachelors in agricultural engineering in the conditions of information and educational environment: regulatory support for filling the information and education environment and preventing plagiarism, regulatory support for conducting online and offline classes, and regulatory support for independent work, self-control, and monitoring. Regulatory provision for filling the educational environment and preventing plagiarism includes provisions for the Cloud 365 information and education environment and provisions for the prevention of academic plagiarism while learning in the educational environment. Regulatory support for online and offline training includes online training and interactive computer training to provide a competent approach to the training of higher education applicants. Regulatory support for independent work, self-control and monitoring includes provisions on monitoring the quality of the educational process, provisions on the quality of the educational and provisions on the organization of independent work of higher education students in the context of information and education. educational environment.Key words: organizational support, vocational training, bachelors in agricultural engineering, information and educational environment.

scholarly journals EMPOWERING ENGINEERING STUDENTS IN ETHICAL RISK MANAGEMENT

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoann Guntzburger
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Grand Challenge ◽  
Innovative Method ◽  
Short Run ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Group Interviews ◽  
Ethical Risk Management

The purpose of our study is to assess to what extent engineers are empowered by their professional training to engage in ethical risk management. Using the concept of self-efficacy and the results from a questionnaire answered by 200 engineering students, we suggest that the present engineering education fails to induce such empowerment.We therefore propose an innovative method to help in this matter. Carried out through workshops with 34 students, the efficiency of this method has been evaluated using group interviews and questionnaires. Our results suggest that such an approach is efficient, at least in the short run, to motivate students to engage in ethical risk management. Maybe more importantly, it triggers reflectivity on what it means to be an engineer today, a first step in engaging into the ultimate Grand Challenge of self-knowledge.

scholarly journals Formation of responsibility of a future specialist – important requirement of professional training of modern power engineering students

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-96
Author(s):  
Vira Mykolaivna Shamardina ◽  
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Mykola Vasylovych Anishchenko ◽  
Oleksandr Pavlovych Lazurenko ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Power Engineering ◽  
Important Requirement

scholarly journals Forma mentis networks map how nursing and engineering students enhance their mindsets about innovation and health during professional growth

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Massimo Stella ◽  
Anna Zaytseva
Keyword(s):  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Cognitive Representations ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Over Time

Reconstructing a “forma mentis”, a mindset, and its changes, means capturing how individuals perceive topics, trends and experiences over time. To this aim we use forma mentis networks (FMNs), which enable direct, microscopic access to how individuals conceptually perceive knowledge and sentiment around a topic, providing richer contextual information than machine learning. FMNs build cognitive representations of stances through psycholinguistic tools like conceptual associations from semantic memory (free associations, i.e., one concept eliciting another) and affect norms (valence, i.e., how attractive a concept is). We test FMNs by investigating how Norwegian nursing and engineering students perceived innovation and health before and after a 2-month research project in e-health. We built and analysed FMNs by six individuals, based on 75 cues about innovation and health, and leading to 1,000 associations between 730 concepts. We repeated this procedure before and after the project. When investigating changes over time, individual FMNs highlighted drastic improvements in all students’ stances towards “teamwork”, “collaboration”, “engineering” and “future”, indicating the acquisition and strengthening of a positive belief about innovation. Nursing students improved their perception of ‘robots” and “technology” and related them to the future of nursing. A group-level analysis related these changes to the emergence, during the project, of conceptual associations about openness towards multidisciplinary collaboration, and a positive, leadership-oriented group dynamics. The whole group identified “mathematics” and “coding” as highly relevant concepts after the project. When investigating persistent associations, characterising the core of students’ mindsets, network distance entropy and closeness identified as pivotal in the students’ mindsets concepts related to “personal well-being”, “professional growth” and “teamwork”. This result aligns with and extends previous studies reporting the relevance of teamwork and personal well-being for Norwegian healthcare professionals, also within the novel e-health sector. Our analysis indicates that forma mentis networks are powerful proxies for detecting individual- and group-level mindset changes due to professional growth. FMNs open new scenarios for data-informed, multidisciplinary interventions aimed at professional training in innovation.

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