Some experience in energy saving training within agricultural engineering education
2014
Rakutko, S., Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Saint-Petersburg-Pavlovsk (Russian Federation). North-West Research Inst. of Agricultural Engineering and Electrification
Training in energy saving is an important task in agricultural engineering education. The author offers a new kind of competence, which is mandatory for the agricultural engineers – the competence to choose the energy saving design solutions. The author believes that this competence should be formed during the classes in special disciplines, in the first place. The paper describes a new method of training in energy saving. The pedagogic basis of the method is the profession-oriented technology of training in energy saving. This technology allows to create the above competence with the special training environment – information system of training in energy saving. The system is designed to organize the teacher-student communication. The continuous replenishment of the system with professionally relevant subject-oriented content is provided. Scientific basis of the method is the applied theory of energy saving in energo-technological processes. The theory describes the energy state of agricultural energy systems taking into account their hierarchy and patterns of interaction between biological objects and artificial habitats. The article describes the experiment conducted by the author in the Far East State Agrarian University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia, in 2006-2010. The experiment results demonstrated that application of the new training method in energy saving provided a higher average grade, that indicated the higher quality of education, expressed in the form of established competence in energy saving. The main conclusion of the study is that the training process of agricultural engineers should be based on the information system of training in energy saving.
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