| HortEducator Interviews | | Milton E. Tignor
Plant and Soil Science
105 Carrigan Drive
Burlington, VT 05405-0082 | | Currently, in the United States, the greenhouse industry covers more than 15,000 acres and is supported by a diverse number of firms with employee expertise that includes greenhouse manufacturing, engineering, irrigation, horticulture, IPM, sales, marketing, and business management. The growing greenhouse industry continues to be in need of highly trained undergraduates that have mastered an amalgam of scientific and business concepts necessary to be competitive in today's agricultural marketplace. Using a multidisciplinary approach we are creating a multimedia instrument for utilization in a variety of greenhouse related courses. This instrument ultimately will be available on the web for anyone to access. To ensure that our vision matches need, we have reviewed the courses offered throughout the United States at 1862, 1890, and 1994 land-grant institutions. Course information collected includes; college, department, title, level, description, website (if available) and instructor e-mail (if available). Interestingly, there are at least 84 courses offering some aspect of greenhouse science in the U.S. Most are offered in Colleges of Agriculture or Engineering, but are housed in 17 diverse departments. Examples include departments of Horticulture; Agronomy and Horticulture; Agricultural Biosystems and Engineering; Plant, Soil, and Entomological Science; and Horticulture, Forestry, Landscape & Parks. This information will be utilized to focus the instructional design phase of the multimedia instrument, to contact current course instructors for feedback, and to frame future development of the resource. Learn more about this project by watching an interview with Milton Tignor. Interview Questions: | Choose option & click Play: | What is the project about? | |  Audio - a good option for dial-up modem users. Small video is 360 x 240 pixels. Large video is 720 x 360 pixels. Audio and video can be viewed on a Macintosh or Windows computer using QuickTime software. Requires: Ver. 7 or higher. Download the free player | | ASHS Members can access the rest of the interview by logging in on the ASHS home page. Learn more about this project: - How did you get started?
- Describe the project.
- What have you learned?
- Who benefits from this work?
- What are your plans for the future of this work?
- Tell us about your poster.
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