Mr. OPPONGattended this year’s ASABE conference with his Academic SupervisorProfessor Mao Hanpingwho also showcased the Institute of Agricultural and Equipment Engineering to the outside world for collaboration and research partnerships.

Detroit Michigan, July 29, 2018– Presented more than 200 different Universities all around the world to participate in the Research Poster and Presentation Competition culminating a year-long competition involving more than 830 Agricultural and Biological Engineering students who presented research projects at ASABE conference under different sessions. Omid Abari from MIT,OPPONG PAUL KWABENA – (OPK)fromJiangsu University (UJS)and Calvin Loncaric of the Harvard University took the top three positions among graduate students in theINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, SENSORS & CONTROL SYSTEMS SESSION. OPK presented on the topic:‘New Type Arduino Plant Grower (GCKJ)’ which is a small automatic Plant Growth Regulator that monitors and supply all the necessary conditions needed for plant growth.

^thin theCLOUD COMPUTING AND INTERNET OF THINGS IN AGRICULTURE SESSIONwith the Topic: ‘Precision Arduino Sensor to Depolarize Climate Conversation’ and6^thin theNatural Resources & Environmental Systems Sessionwith research topic ‘Relationship between Soil Moisture Content and Penetration Resistance on Vertisols’.