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首次参加美国农业与生物工程师学会学术年会的难忘经历
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王 应 宽
2009-10-26
UTC-6 CST
UMN, St Paul
博主按：应海外华人农业、生物与食品工程师协会（AOCABFE）当值主席Dr. Lingjuan Wang和会讯主编Dr Zhuping Sheng邀稿，把参加2009美国农业与生物工程师学会学术年会和AOC年会的经历写成此文。文章已经在AOC的官方Newsletter IMPACT及其网站发表，今将拙文和该期会讯IMPACT(附-彩色PDF)转贴于此，与大家分享，并请斧正。因为文章是用英文写作的，在此特别感谢Dr Zuojun Yu，Paul Chen, Zhuping Sheng在写作过程中的修改和建议。
Memorable experience of my first ASABE and AOCABFE meeting
By Wang Yingkuan
China Regional Director and Managing Editor of IJABE
Thanks to Prof. Roger Ruan’s invitation and hosting, I had the opportunity to work at the University of Minnesota as a visiting scholar from May to December, 2009. I also took this opportunity to attend 2009 ASABE Annual International Meeting and to participate in the Association of Overseas Chinese Agricultural, Biological and Food Engineers (AOCABFE, short as AOC) activities in Reno, Nevada, USA, during June 19-24, 2009. This is my first visit to the U.S., and also my first attendance to the ASABE annual meeting. What a wonderful and unforgettable experience in my professional life!
Because of the serious pandemic of swine flu this year, many Chinese professionals could not come to the ASABE meeting, and I became the only representative from the headquarter of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering (CSAE) and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Engineering (CAAE). Thus, the president of both the CSAE and the CAAE, Professor Zhu Ming entrusted me to address the meeting on behalf of the CSAE, the CAAE and himself. I was honored to be an invited speaker to give a presentation on the China Exchange Session jointly sponsored by ASABE and AOCABFE. In the morning of June 23, I made a presentation entitled “Overview of Scientific Journals in China and International English Journal IJABE Based on Open Access”. I concluded my talk by thanking and encouraging AOCABFE members to support our joint journal IJABE with an acronym “PRC”, which stands for “Publish your good papers in the IJABE, Review the manuscripts for the IJABE if asked, and Cite the papers published in the IJABE. Your support to the IJABE with the “PRC” is also your contribution to China, because the People's Republic of China is often referred to as the PRC.
We also held the first IJABE editorial board meeting during the ASABE meeting. The then AOCABFE president Dr. Zhongli Pan and the past AOCABFE president Dr. Chenghai Yang made a great effort in organizing and coordinating the editorial board meeting in advance. As a result, about twenty participants attended the meeting. Dr. Chenghai Yang chaired the meeting, and I, one of the Managing Editors, gave the annual report，with the title of “IJABE based on Open Access and Open Journal System: Annual Report”. After the presentation, there were good discussion and exchanges on some key issues, including timely peer review, website access, uploading and downloading website files, and how to attract enough good quality submissions, etc. Great success and rapid growth of the IJABE were well recognized, and good suggestions and practical measures for improving the journal were presented. The other managing editor Dr. Paul Chen made a special trip to attend this editorial board meeting on behalf of the Co-Editor-in-Chief Professor Roger Ruan. To ensure a successful editorial board meeting, Professor Roger Ruan organized an editorial staff meeting in advance at the University of Minnesota, and some color flyers were printed and distributed to meeting attendees to increase exposure of the IJABE to more colleagues during the ASABE meeting.
In addition to giving the two presentations, I also attended the AOCABFE Business Meeting and Award Banquet, and the Dinner Party for Overseas Alumni of College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, China. During these meetings and banquets, I gave congratulation and greeting speeches on behalf of Professor Zhu Ming and the CSAE, and welcomed and invited all overseas Chinese experts to attend the 2009 CSAE Annual Meeting in Shanxi Province during August 22-24. Moreover, I attended 2009 ASABE Benefit Celebration Dinner and Awards Luncheon, and was deeply moved and impressed by so many outstanding AOCABFE members. I am very proud of them.
I enjoyed the wonderful time during the ASABE and AOCABFE meetings in Reno. Besides listening to many reports, I also met many old friends and made some new friends, such as Professors and Drs. Ruihong Zhang, Zhongli Pan, Chenghai Yang, Yubin Lan, Jiannong Xin, Ruixiu Sui, Yanbo Huang, Qin Zhang, Hanwu Lei, Yanbin Li, Renfu Lu, Shaojin Wang, Lingjuan Wang, Naiqian Zhang, Shufeng Han, Bill Stout, Melissa Moore and Mark Zielke. Networking with these colleagues and friends was one of my greatest gains during these meetings. Owing to the hospitable arrangements and invitation by these friends, I visited the University of California at Davis (UC Davis), the ASABE headquarter at St. Joseph, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Texas A & M University, USDA-ARS at College Station and Weslaco in Texas, University of Florida, among others one after another.
I was pleased and honored to serve as the China Regional Director on the AOCABFE Board in 2009-2010. I wish to join hands with all AOCABFE members to promote the development of this scholarly society.
(More photos are published in Photo Gallery - the Editor)
附： AOCABFE会讯2009年第9卷第1期
AOCABFE Newsletter-IMPACT 2009-Vol.9(1)
https://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-39523-265366.html
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