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Description
This proposal aims to enable food, agricultural, natural resource and human science (FANH) students to
wield the power of software development in practical ways that interact with the world in which they
will find themselves, both in research as graduate students and in their future careers across the FANH
industries. The agricultural industry is increasingly producing ever-larger amounts of digital data
(socalled big data). Deployment of a variety of sensors in agricultural machinery, farm fields, grain storage
units, food processing industry, animal collars etc.- all sources of big data- coupled with cloud-based
data analytics has created an era of AgInformatics, where real-time information gathering, storage,
analysis and interpretation is enabling decision making on the go. The ultimate goal of sensing and data
analytics is aimed at insuring efficient management of the agricultural enterprise for building a
sustainable agricultural production system. This project aims to develop curriculum, courses and
activities to prepare our students to become central players in this growing field.
Objectives:
1. Create curriculum including lectures and videos to support instructional efforts in this area.
2. Create a standard infrastructure including development environments and example data sets for
instruction purposes.
3. Foster an understanding of the open source process and the tools it provides within FANH
students.
4. Evaluate learning outcomes to ensure learning objectives are being met.
This sub-contract is part of a larger effort to develop these materials which is being led by Purdue. Final
outcomes of this project will include the curriculum and course work to enable offering graduate
students in the College of Food, Agriculture and Environment two classes focusing on these topics. The
course material will be activity based with teaching materials developed around a flipped classroom
model. This will enable each university to leverage lectures and written material produced at other
universities while permitting local faculty to focus on the in-person, hands-on delivery that is most
important.
Scope of Work
UK will contribute to the development of the course materials, the development environments which
students will use, and participate in yearly hack-a-thons where students from all participating
universities will gather to work on challenging problems. UK will host one hack-a-thon in year 2 of the
program. UK will also handle the evaluation component of the entire program.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 9/1/20 → 8/31/24 |
Funding
- Purdue University: $147,986.00
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