Agroecosystems comprise many imported goods and services like water, food, biodiversity, and energy. Certain contemporary contexts exist, such as rapid urbanization, population growth, climate change, soil pollution, deforestation, degradation, and economic globalization. These contexts leave an adverse impact on the quality and quantity of the services. The master of agro Ecosystem engineering at TCAs Kasetsart University [tcas เกษตร, this is the term in Thai] is a program of bioscience engineering that aims at training the future generation. It imparts knowledge about the functioning of the agro and natural ecosystem, not just from the socio-economic perspective but also from the biophysical point of view. Also, it considers the socio-economic perspective of today’s society of information.
Strengths
This program enables the local and international students to tackle the environmental problems that lie in the global ecosystem. A major component of the program is a unified abroad field job in a tropical or temperate environment. The students here are not just open to challenges in their technical skills and scientific knowledge, but they also enhance their transferable skills such as multicultural and interactive learning. They also learn about project management, economic assessment, and efficient communication. The students can opt for a personal initiative semester of exchange and an international internship at a partner university. The students of the plant production system here are offered to make use of opportunities for the mobility of international outgoing.
Structure
The significant system of plant production lays its focus on the agroecosystem. It also includes specialized tracks in forestry system production, crop production, and horology. The major resource and agricultural economics concentrates on the policy-related and economic aspects of agro and ecosystem with detailed courses in food, agriculture, and natural resource economics. The main water and soil system provides a deep understanding of the production-oriented and natural ecosystem aspects. The significant nature, landscape, and forest ecosystem help gather knowledge about the biotic aspect of the production-oriented and natural ecosystem. It also teaches you to optimally manage the systems on a scale of landscapes.
