Curricular reform of the major in Agricultural Engineering of Núcleo Monagas of The Universidad de Oriente
Titel:
Curricular reform of the major in Agricultural Engineering of Núcleo Monagas of The Universidad de Oriente
Auteur:
Víctor Alejandro OTAHOLA GÓMEZ Jesús Rafael MÉNDEZ NATERA Jesús RODRÍGUEZ
Verschenen in:
Revista científica UDO agrícola
Paginering:
Jaargang 5 (2005) nr. 1 pagina's 27-39
Jaar:
2005
Inhoud:
The Escuela of Ingeniería Agronómica of the Universidad de Oriente comes suffering for several years the consequences ofthe political mistakes that have been implemented in the agricultural activity by the different governments in the country,influencing notably on the quantity of students that annually enter and graduate of the major that has affected therelationship entrance-exit, the teaching quality which are receiving and the ability of the graduate students in serving asexchange agents in the improvement of the life quality of the farmers and its capacity as collaborating in the agriculturaltransformation which is needed today to incorporate to a global world and in consequence more competitive. To achievethese objectives it must work in the development of technologies which allow to use the resources rationally with which thefarmers count, with the implementation of new techniques and also, traditional ones that have entered in disuse for thestrange tendency that which people has of trying to apply the abroad technology, leaving aside those autochthonoustechniques that can, with certain modifications, to be of great utility in the agricultural development that the society needs.To face these new and not very well-known challenges, it is absolutely indispensable to adapt the capacity of the agricultureprofessionals, so that they receive a formation very different to the one that at the moment are offered; only in this way, theywill be under conditions of reconciling the big necessities of the farmers with the less chances of the governments to satisfythem. The objective of the present work was to make a proposal, based on the experience of the current reality and in theinformation given by teachers, students, graduate students and employers on what should be the Major in AgriculturalEngineering of the Universidad de Oriente in next years, a committed major with the harmonic and sustainable developmentof the agriculture of the region.