BAE Connections
Spring 2014 | www.bae.uky.edu
In 2014, we celebrate the Smith-Lever Act, which established the Cooperative Extension Service, a unique educational partnership between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the nation’s land-grant universities that extends research-based knowledge through a state-by-state network of extension educators. For 100 years, the Smith-Lever Act has stimulated innovative research and vital educational programs for youth and adults through progressive information delivery systems that improved lives and shaped a nation. Join us as we celebrate 100 years of extending knowledge and changing lives. Using New Methods to Share Information As much
as Extension stays the same, it moves with the times, adapting and changing with the current culture, in Kentucky and the nation. For example, at UK, everyone from engineers to county Extension agents has access to or uses multiple forms of social media, from Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, to blogs, to communicate; and they regularly use Adobe Connect, Microsoft Lync to host or join meetings. The technological revolution helps faculty and staff share research-based information in the biosystems and agricultural engineering field that can help farmers, consumers, and community members make informed decisions, whether they live on a farm, in town, or somewhere in between.
Webinar Series This fall, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering (BAE) will debut a series of “train-the-trainer” webinars, designed to transfer engineering information to Extension agents. • Beverly Miller – Control Overhead through Building Energy Management • Richard Warner – Home Drip Irrigation Systems • Mike Montross – Measuring Grain Bin Capacity Using GPS and GIS • John Wilhoit and Larry Swetnam – Labor-Saving Methods for Tobacco Warehousing • Matt Dixon – Agricultural Features of the Ag Weather Center’s New Website
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