TOWARDS A NEW DESIGN OF SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS THROUGH PRECISION AGRICULTURE AND DATA SCIENCE IN THE EDUCATIONAL MODEL TEC21 Academic Article in Scopus uri icon

abstract

  • In the 2025 strategic plan, the mission of Tecnologico de Monterrey is to train people with a humanistic vision and to be internationally competitive in their professional field. During the last 15 years, through the design of social development projects in marginalised areas of the Sierra Gorda of Queretaro, which undergraduate students carry out during their university studies, different projects have been implemented in which added value is given. Agricultural products are based on local supply chains for raw materials and the help of the government of Guanajuato and Querétaro to bring these products to the market. Furthermore, through the studies carried out on different seeds and crops in the Experimental Agricultural Field of the Tecnologico de Monterrey, CAETEC has created a new methodology to increase the productivity of these production units and make them the economic engine to eliminate poverty in marginalised areas by applying design techniques, project management, statistics, design of experiments, and data science. The use of precision agriculture at CAETEC has generated valuable information on cultivation methods to improve productivity and information obtained from greenhouses built using the principle of Agritronics that are operated by renewable energy to harvest agricultural products in remote areas and are more marginalised from the country. Students lived a social experience apart from the academic knowledge acquired to design sustainable social development projects presented in this paper. © 2023 Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education: Responsible Innovation for Global Co-Habitation, E and PDE 2023. All rights reserved.

publication date

  • January 1, 2023