John Deere Short Term Goals

The future is a puzzling mystery of plans that are at times freighting to consider. Although, when you have no plans in life and don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there which leads to the plan I have set forth in my life. Short-term goals I have set for myself are taking part of undergraduate research or internships and completing my college education at the University of Florida (UF) by taking part of clubs and taking classes that benefit me the greatest in my long-term goals. My long-term pursuit is to obtain a job working for John Deere as an agricultural production engineer creating new farming machinery advancements and work my way up through the company hierarchy. One of the ways to complete my short-term goals is

In the Precision Agriculture and the remote sensing class I will learn and be able to apply the technology used in precision farming. Precision farming is using robotics to properly complete different tasks around a farm. A few examples are picking produce at a specific ripeness from trees, plowing the fields with tractors, field and water management and data management. The goal of this is so that a machine can work all day and all night with no pay or no need to stop except to refill on gas or charge up on batteries. “Through global positioning systems, yield monitoring and mapping, remote sensing, geographic information systems, variable rate technologies, data layering of independent variables, internet information access, and computer software management, the task can be completed” [3]. The key is going over the systems so that each works almost flawlessly and can be used without worry of property destruction. John Deere has devoted a department to agricultural production to help farmers maximize their profits and so this class would benefit me if I was ever needed to work on a project that involved precision agriculture because this field of agriculture is advancing rapidly as more and more farmers witness the

Learning the foundational understanding of state of the art biosensors and a basic skill set for continuing a path to biosensors and their design [3]. Although this does not directly correlate to working with John Deere, I still believe it is beneficial in a potentially new product John Deere could create if they have not started already. Biosensors could be attached to the robotics that do everything on the farm and as the robots drive by they could possibly test for water levels in the soil signaling to turn on the water system or even seeing pesticides that are detrimental to plants and sending reports to the farmers to spray for the certain pest