• DocumentCode
    615362
  • Title

    Introducing agriculture electronics to engineering undergraduates

  • Author

    Maxworth, Ashanthi S. ; Jayasinghe, J.A.K.S.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun. Eng., Univ. of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    26-28 April 2013
  • Firstpage
    737
  • Lastpage
    740
  • Abstract
    For the development in the agricultural sector in Sri Lanka, it is a well accepted fact that technology should be introduced to the field of agriculture. Here Electronic Engineers can play a major role. As the first step of this process the multi-disciplinary module Agricultural Electronics was formed and introduced to the undergraduates of the specialized field Electronic and Telecommunication. The necessity, content and the outcomes of the module were demonstrated in this paper as a new trend in Engineering Education; therefore any nation would be able to adopt this multi-disciplinary approach for the benefit of their country.
  • Keywords
    agricultural engineering; electronic engineering education; telecommunication engineering education; Sri Lanka; agricultural sector; agriculture electronics; electronic engineering; engineering undergraduates; telecommunication engineering; Computers; Indexes; Instruments; Manuals; Moisture; Optical variables measurement; Soil measurements; Agricultural Electronics; Agriculture; Electronics; Engineering Education; Multi-disciplinary module; Technology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Computer Science & Education (ICCSE), 2013 8th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Colombo
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-4464-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICCSE.2013.6554005
  • Filename
    6554005