Engineering Agriculture at Texas A&M: The First Hundred YearsTexas A&M University Press, 18.02.2015 - 240 Seiten The abundance of agricultural production enjoyed in the United States is the result of a federal-state partnership that relies on land grant universities to respond to the needs of society through research, invention, problem-solving, outreach, and applied science and engineering. The Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at Texas A&M University, established in 1915, has been an important part of that effort. Over the hundred years of its existence, it has successfully tackled the challenges of mechanization, electrification, irrigation, harvest, transport, and more to the benefit of agriculture in Texas, the United States, and the world. In this book, historian Henry Dethloff and current department chair Stephen Searcy explore the history of the department—its people, its activity, its growth—and project the department’s future for its second century, when its primary task will be to sustainably help meet the needs of a predicted 9.6 billion Earth residents and to recognize that societal food concerns are focused more and more on sustainable production and human health. |
Inhalt
Chapter 1 | 1 |
Chapter 2 | 11 |
Chapter 3 | 24 |
Chapter 4 | 45 |
Chapter 5 | 61 |
Chapter 6 | 81 |
Chapter 7 | 101 |
Chapter 8 | 124 |
Chapter 9 | 140 |
Chapter 10 | 162 |
Chapter 11 | 178 |
The Second Century | 191 |
Faculty ASAEASABEGold Medal Recipients | 195 |
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Engineering Agriculture at Texas A&M: The First Hundred Years Henry C. Dethloff,Stephen W. Searcy Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2015 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
academic aerial application agribusiness Agricultural and Mechanical Agricultural Engineering Department agricultural engineering faculty Agricultural Experiment Station American Society ASAE Award BAEN became began bioenergy Biological and Agricultural biomass building campus Center College of Agriculture College Station College Committee cotton ginning crop Cyrus Hall McCormick Daniels Scoates degree in agricultural department head Department of Agricultural Department of Biological department’s director energy enrolled environment farm home farm machinery farmers feed focused food engineering global graduate grain harvesting Hiler improved industry irrigation John Deere laboratory land-grant universities marketing Massey-Ferguson Mechanical College mechanized agriculture Ogallala Aquifer Otto Kunze plant precision agriculture president Price Hobgood ricultural rural electrification Searcy served Society of Agricultural Soil and Water Station College Station Steve Searcy Student Branch studies teaching Texas A&M University Texas A&M’s Department Texas Agricultural Experiment tractors undergraduate water resources Wilkes