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INTRODUCTORY MOBILE HYDRAULIC SYSTEMS, ADVANCED MOBILE HYDRAULIC SYSTEMS, AND POWER TRAIN SYSTEM WORKSHOPS FOR AGRICULTURAL K-14 EDUCATORS
Sponsoring Institution
National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Project Status
ACTIVE
Funding Source
Reporting Frequency
Annual
Accession No.
1032224
Grant No.
2024-67037-42599
Cumulative Award Amt.
$500,000.00
Proposal No.
2023-09850
Multistate No.
(N/A)
Project Start Date
Jul 1, 2024
Project End Date
Jun 30, 2028
Grant Year
2024
Program Code
[A7501]- Professional Development for Agricultural Literacy
Project Director
Dell, T. W.
Recipient Organization
PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY
1501 S. JOPLIN STREET
PITTSBURG,KS 66762
Performing Department
(N/A)
Non Technical Summary
Mobile hydraulic systems and heavy equipment power trains are complex, mysterious, and challenging to educators who are attempting to teach the technologies to their students. To relate it to mainstream education, mobile equipment can appear just as daunting as calculus, physics, or a foreign language.These workshops will lay the correct foundation that is necessary for instructors to learn and teach mobile equipment. For example, asking an educator to explain to their students how a continuously variable transmission functions, first requires the educator to learn simple planetary gear sets, compound planetary gear sets, traditional transmission technologies like sliding gears, synchronizers, multiple disc clutches, electric drives, and hydrostatic pumps and motors. These foundational technologies allow a participant to put the technologies together so they can fully understand how the final system functions.
Animal Health Component
(N/A)
Research Effort Categories
Basic
(N/A)
Applied
(N/A)
Developmental
(N/A)
Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)Subject of Investigation (SOI)Field of Science (FOS)Percent
40253103020100%
Knowledge Area
402 - Engineering Systems and Equipment;

Subject Of Investigation
5310 - Machinery and equipment;

Field Of Science
3020 - Education;
Goals / Objectives
Goal: Provide technical training on mobile hydraulic systems and power trains to K-14 agricultural educators.Objective: K-14 agricultural educators take their gained knowledge back to their schools and share it with their students.
Project Methods
Participants receive formal classroom instruction, lab demonstrations, and hands-on lab exercises that must function. The principal investigator who authored the textbooks and developed the illustrations, will deliver in-class instruction that includes animations and cross-sectional drawings, and case studies. In the lab, participants will be provided laboratory assignments that require building numerous hydraulic circuits that must function correctly. Participants will be allowed to diagnose their problems that they encounter during the exercises. The instructor will provide numerous demonstrations for flow rating hydraulic systems, adjusting hydraulic systems and making adjustments to mobile equipment. Participants will be required to answer how a planetary gear set can achieve eight different power flows and will be required to demonstrate how to achieve the different power flows. Participants will learn how to diagnose power shift and automatic transmissions.