Undergraduate Research Experiences in Agricultural and Food Engineering

REU项目旨在为农业和食品工程专业的本科工程专业学生提供丰富的研究经验。目标是：1。通过管理研究项目，促进学生能力、自信和自尊的发展。2.通过研究报告提高学生的书面和口头交流能力。3.让学生加入农业或食品工程的工作研究小组，让他们对研究职业感兴趣。女性和少数族裔学生将在爱荷华州立大学现有办公室的协助下招收。被选中参与的学生将选择一个主题领域，然后被放入一个研究小组，在那里教员助理将帮助他们定义研究问题。一旦在提案中确定，每个学生将完成一个项目，然后以书面报告和口头报告的形式展示结果。这份报告将由学生精炼，随后进入全国论文比赛。示范研究项目包括地下水质量监测、农业灾害和减少事故、大豆收获前水分变化以及自动化全谷物成分测试。

A REU program is designed to provide significant research experience undergraduate engineering students in agricultural and food engineering. Objectives are to: 1. Promote student growth in competence, confidence, and self- esteem by managing a research project. 2. Enhance student written and oral communication skills through research presentations. 3. Interest students in research careers by having them join a working research group in agricultural or food engineering. Women and minority students will be recruited with the assistance of established offices at Iowa State University. Students selected for participation will select a topic area and then be placed in a research group where a faculty associate will assist them in defining a research problem. Once defined in a proposal, each student will carry out a project, and then present results in a written report and oral presentations. The report will be refined by the student and subsequently entered in national paper competition. Example research projects involve groundwater quality monitoring, agricultural hazard and accident reduction, moisture changes in soybeans prior to harvest, and automated whole-grain composition testing.