Development Study on Agri-Engineering Education National Institute of Technology

Abstract

Abstract Support of the engineering is necessary to solve agriculture problems such as a decreasing number of farmers，a lack of successors，the TPP，spreading areas of abandoned farmland，state of agricultural affairs，the food situation and so on. The discussion on upbringing of the engineer who has knowledge of agriculture was carried out among Oita，Kagoshima and Miyakonojo colleges，who are members of NIT (National Institute of Technology) partnership cooperation in the previous year. Development of a pilot curriculum for agri-engineering is conducted based on previous study in the partnership program. This report shows a textbook with the agricultural literacy education，a vegetable production system for a plant factory and thermal control experiment for an experiment class in advanced course of NIT，Miyakonojo Col1ege. In addition，various opinions by the advanced course students are introduced and the problems that the problems that the agri-engineering education faces are described. Keywords [Agri-engineering education，NIT partnership program，Experimental textbook， Experimental materials]