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January 26, 1983
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by Kimberly Hix
Battalion Reporter
Computers could become as
familiar to agriculture students
as soils and crops.
Computer knowledge will
give students an edge in the job
market, said Dr. Dwayne Suter,
associate dean of the College of
Agriculture.
The ability to utilize the com
puter is recognized as a valuable
asset in the agriculture field, Su
ter said Monday. The computer
is a tool to be used in agricultural
areas such as production, pro
cessing, distribution and man
agement, he added.
Computers also will be used
in marketing agricultural pro
ducts as well as aiding in agribu
siness, or off-farm productions,
he said.
The agriculture department
is establishing computer com
petency standards and a reme
dial course is already offered,
Suter said.
In the past year the number
of agriculture students taking
computer courses increased
from about 50 in fall 1981 to
1,150 in fall 1982, he said.
There are 156 microcompu
ters in the department and the
growing number of computers
in the department is due to re
cent cuts in the costs of micro-
Japanese use computers
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HOUSTON — In Japan, it’s
lapped together on a 440-foot
iroduction line, assembled in
ve been c: 0UI hours, welded, painted and
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ved dat ! omputers, robots and portable
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m ^ a yneJif spiffy Japanese roadsters. It’s
>ns to tht home.
Ration FB “What the Japanese are
lies test! [ 0 j n g i s mind-boggling,” Doyle
t guanhltiukey, president of the Texas
Bociation of Builders, said
luring the National Association
" Home Builders Convention.
He said the Japanese builders
ned lessons from Japanese
tomakers. They not only have
-Corporated successful techni-
|l)lni|ies from the car industry —
* * 1‘tuch as robots — but are making
tensive use of computers to
keep track of an inventory of
more than 300,000 items, rang
ing from screws to insulation to
studs, carpet and wallpapers.
Although Japan has half the
number of as many households
as the United States, its builders
produce nearly the same num
ber of homes per year as U.S.
builders. The Japanese accom
plish this feat through innova
tion, marketing, research, gov
ernment assistance and inter
vention, Stuckey said.
Sekisui Heim, one of Japan’s
top builders, produces 85 per
cent of its one-, two- and three-
story homes in the factory,
where welding, nailing, cutting
and gluing are done on an
assembly line.
The homes are priced at
$62,000 in U.S. dollars for a
1,600-square-foot home with
three bedrooms and two baths.
Smaller models are available.
“The Japanese buyer, like his
U.S. counterpart, selects his own
building site and style of house,”
said Miyawaki Mayumi, an
architect for Sekisui. “Our con
struction system is the applica
tion of high technology to indi
vidual design.”
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computers, Suter said.
Over the next four years the
program will cost approximately
$3 million and will satisfy
minimal computing equipment
needs, he said.
The program will include de
velopment of computer instruc
tional materials which allows
students to develop computer
skills without taking a course,
Suter said.
The emphasis is on develop
ing agricultural software, he
said. The average program costs
$100,000 to write and test and
trained people are needed to fill
the jobs.
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