Engineering Education Projects for Improving Agriculture in Developing Countries.

Autor/in	Peikert, F. W.
Titel	Engineering Education Projects for Improving Agriculture in Developing Countries.
Quelle	(1975), (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Agricultural Colleges; Agricultural Engineering; College Science; Curriculum Development; Developing Nations; Engineering Education; Food; Higher Education; Research Projects; Science Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Landwirtschaftliche Fakultät; Landwirtschaftliche Hochschule; Agrarindustrie; Agronomie; Agrarwissenschaft; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Ingenieurausbildung; Lebensmittel; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Forschungsvorhaben; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung
Abstract	Agricultural engineers have been working for a number of years with colleges and universities in many developing countries to improve their agriculture. Much of the activity in university development assistance has been taken over the last 20 years. The greatest portion of the support has come from USAID. Among the common problems facing the programs were: (1) the method of financing on a year-to-year basis; and (2) teaching, research, and extension were rarely under one administrative unit. The first official agreement covering a United States sponsored university contract was signed in 1952. During the next 20 years, six American universities became involved. By 1972, India had established nine new agricultural universities patterned after our land-grant institutions. The program was phased out during 1972 and 1973 at the request of the Indian government. The overall objective of the United States university contract program was to help India develop state agricultural universities with colleges of agriculture, veterinary medicine, agricultural engineering, home science, and basic sciences and humanities. Insight is given as to how a College of Agricultural Engineering was established. (LS)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01