A Message from the President
Dear AOC Members,
It is a great privilege and honor for me to serve AOC as the new president. I personally take this opportunity seriously with responsibility.
Over the past seven years, AOC has grown rapidly and successfully emerged as noticeable professional community. AOC is already an excellent platform and bridge and has provided many opportunities of information exchange and networking among AOC members and related professionals. Now, as our world as a whole is facing critical challenges, such as climate change, food supply and safety and energy shortage, we as agricultural, biological and food engineers are more than ever empowered with responsibilities to bring about technology innovations and develop effective solutions and policies to address the societal needs. I suggest the following areas that could be focused as AOC moves forward in another exciting year.
- Expand the membership by recruiting more members. Especially, now China sends a large number of graduate students and scholars aboard. They will be a great asset for AOC.
- Enhance the working relationship of AOC with American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineers (CSAE), Chinese Society for Agricultural Machineries (CSAM) and related societies and organizations.
- Promote AOC members in professional communities and recognize their achievements.
- Step up fund raising effort to support AOC’s activities in scientific exchange and networking.
I believe that with concerted effort of our members, we will be able to continue our well-developed programs, initiate some new activities and make improvements with the goal to better serve our members and society. Your suggestions and participation are the most important for achieving our common goals.
I will be looking forward to working with you.
Sincerely,
Zhongli Pan Ph.D
AOC President for 2008-2009
