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ANIMAL SCIENCES

West Virginia University

Doctoral ResearchCIP: 01.0901

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Dates

Since May 2019

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Locations

Where this program is offered

  • Morgantown, West Virginia

    PO Box 6201, Morgantown, West Virginia, 26506

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Skills & Competencies

Skills developed through this program

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Skills

Reading ComprehensionActive ListeningCritical ThinkingSpeakingWritingJudgment and Decision MakingComplex Problem SolvingInstructingActive LearningCoordinationMonitoringManagement of Personnel ResourcesTime ManagementSocial PerceptivenessLearning StrategiesMathematicsScience

Knowledge

English LanguageBiologyCustomer and Personal ServiceMathematicsAdministration and ManagementFood ProductionProduction and ProcessingMechanicalEducation and TrainingChemistryComputers and ElectronicsSales and MarketingPersonnel and Human Resources

Abilities

Oral ComprehensionProblem SensitivityOral ExpressionDeductive ReasoningInductive ReasoningInformation OrderingWritten ComprehensionWritten ExpressionSpeech ClarityCategory FlexibilityNear VisionSpeech RecognitionFluency of IdeasOriginality

Tasks

  • Assign tasks such as feeding and treatment of animals, and cleaning and maintenance of animal quarte
  • Record the numbers and types of fish or shellfish reared, harvested, released, sold, and shipped.
  • Monitor workers to ensure that safety regulations are followed, warning or disciplining those who vi
  • Advise farmers and demonstrate techniques in areas such as feeding and health maintenance of livesto
  • Conduct classes or deliver lectures on subjects such as nutrition, home management, and farming tech
  • Collaborate with producers to diagnose and prevent management and production problems.
  • Keep abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, an
  • Advise students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.
  • Supervise undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and research work.
  • Document and maintain records of precision agriculture information.
  • Collect information about soil or field attributes, yield data, or field boundaries, using field dat
  • Use geospatial technology to develop soil sampling grids or identify sampling sites for testing char
  • Operate drone technology to capture aerial imagery and data for crop monitoring and analysis.
  • Prepare land for cultivated crops, orchards, or vineyards by plowing, discing, leveling, or contouri
  • Operate farm machinery, including tractors, plows, mowers, combines, balers, sprayers, earthmoving e
  • Record data pertaining to experimentation, research, or animal care.
  • Study nutritional requirements of animals and nutritive values of animal feed materials.
  • Write up or orally communicate research findings to the scientific community, producers, and the pub
  • Develop improved practices in feeding, housing, sanitation, or parasite and disease control of anima
  • Collect and record growth, production, and environmental data.
  • Manage nurseries that grow horticultural plants for sale to trade or retail customers, for display o
  • Direct and monitor trapping and spawning of fish, egg incubation, and fry rearing, applying knowledg

Technology

Data base user interface and query softwareGeographic information systemEnterprise resource planning ERP softwareAccounting softwareCalendar and scheduling softwareGraphics or photo imaging softwareAnalytical or scientific softwareMobile location based services softwareElectronic mail softwareProject management softwareWeb page creation and editing softwareMulti-media educational softwareComputer based training softwareWord processing softwareInformation retrieval or search softwareMap creation softwareDesktop publishing softwareComputer aided design CAD softwareIndustrial control software

Tools

Adjustable hand wrenchesAdjustable widemouth pliersAeration pumpsAir compressorsAnimal injection syringesAnimal trailersAnimal vaccination syringesArtificial insemination syringesAutomated feed batch mixersAutomatic fish feedersAutomatic watering devicesAxesBackhoesBalling gunsBlast chillersDesktop computersDigital camerasLaptop computersOverhead display projectorsPersonal computersPersonal digital assistants PDACarousel slide projectorsCompact digital camerasCompact disk CD playersComputer data input scannersComputer laser printersComputer projectorsConference telephonesDigital calculatorsDigital video cameras

Work Values

IndependenceSupportAchievementRelationshipsWorking ConditionsRecognition
Career Pathways

Occupations this program prepares you for

  • First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers45-1011.00
  • Farm and Home Management Educators25-9021.00
  • Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary25-1041.00
  • Precision Agriculture Technicians19-4012.01
  • Agricultural Technicians19-4012.00
  • Animal Scientists19-1011.00
  • Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers11-9013.00
What You'll Learn

Key competencies developed through this program

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Mastery: advanced (Level 4)(based on Doctoral Research)

  • Farm-, ranch-, or forestry-operation general management — set direction across multiple sites, crops, or stands.
  • Capital plans and major-equipment purchases — author and defend with the owner or board.
  • Multi-state labor and contractor strategy — own with HR, legal, and agency partners.
  • Industry forums (commodity boards, Farm Bureau, processor councils) — represent the operation.
  • Land-use, water-rights, and conservation planning — lead with NRCS, irrigation districts, and counsel.
  • Workforce-development pipelines — build with community colleges and apprenticeship programs.
  • Major contracts (packers, processors, logging buyers) — negotiate at executive level.
  • Succession and family-business planning — facilitate with owners and advisors.
  • Disaster response (fire, flood, drought) — command across crews, equipment, and agencies.
  • Legacy mentorship of the next generation of supervisors — institutionalize across an operation.

Some details on this page are auto-populated from public workforce data sources: O*NET (opens in new tab), BLS (opens in new tab), College Scorecard (opens in new tab), DOL Training Provider Results (opens in new tab), NSX (opens in new tab). Provided in partnership with LER.me Career Intelligence.

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