The budding USR team of STUST "Carbon Storage and Fishing: The Ancient Capital Tucheng Green Power Creation and Intelligent Farming Interdisciplinary Integration Sustainable Development Plan" recently held the 111-2 final course exchange meeting for teachers to exchange their implementation experience of social practice courses and share the creativity and self-confidence of students in the exploratory teaching process.

【Students of STUST were implementing single-chip control course in fields under the guidance of Prof. You-ren Chen.】

Taking Tainan Tucheng aquaculture fish farm as a demonstration site, the team introduced STUST's green power generation and energy-saving technologies to revitalize the local economy and sustainable environmental development, including "Energy and Environment," "Single Chip Control" from the Department of Mechanical Engineering," "Mechanism and Engineering," "Engineering Statistics," "Practical Application of Deep Learning Methods in Photovoltaic Technology," and "Electrical Circuits (2)" of the Department of Electrical Engineering, trying to integrate local issues into the courses. With the concept of SDGs and the goal of cultivating professional talents with sustainable care and the ability to respond to local needs, students were led into Tucheng fish farms, making on-site visits to local farmers to understand the challenges faced by the aquaculture industry in terms of cost, labor and breeding rate. The student group was required to come up with solutions, report various proposals to build a smart fish farm with technology, and produce a prototype of the solution at the end of the term.

【Students STUST were deploying sensors in the field.】

Prof. Yu-jun Huang from the Electrical Engineering Department, STUST, led students of the "Electrical Circuits (2)" course to the field, helping students master the basic concepts of aquaculture and fishery and use basic circuit theory to solve the problems existing in the field. The participating students found that there was room for improvement in the design of traditional waterwheels in the fish farm. They set goals at energy saving and increasing the oxygen content of the waters before dividing labor to design the waterwheel model and conduct actual measurements. The blade design team made a miniature version of the waterwheel with holes added through 3D printing. The blade and the motor group used the Arduino to drive the blade to rotate, adding the load-bearing structure designed by the buoyancy counterweight. After assembly and testing, they took the finished model to the fish farm at the end of the semester for actual measurement. The students were affirmed by their local partners during the actual measurement, so as to realize if there were still opportunities to contribute to the community. Prof. Yu-sheng Lin from the Department of Mechanical Engineering offered "Mechanism and Engineering" PBL course and shared his idea. While each student group freely arranged the lectures in the past, in this semester, the students came up with ideas in combination with the carbon reduction goals of the USR program after visiting the field. They presented the design of special projects by means of CAD, such as bait feeding mechanism, soil plowing and fallow mechanism, and clam patching device. The overall results were made closer to the demand side to solve the actual problems in the field.

【Students of STUST were practicing engineering statistics in the field under the guidance of Prof. Yu-rong Li.】

Chair Sheng-zhang Wang of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, STUST, who also co-host the project, said that in the sharing of teachers, he saw that the USR project successfully ignited the enthusiasm of students. How to further combine various departments for interdisciplinary cooperation in the future is worth thinking for project partners with common goals.

【Students of engineering statistics at STUST were doing tests in a fishpond.】

Cheng-wen Wu, President of STUST, said that the USR project team of STUST "Carbon Storage and Fishing" used green electricity to create energy, reduce carbon, and breed smart Internet of Things farming technology. The specific practice of farming fish farms in Tucheng, Tainan, has reversed the curriculum of the College of Engineering. With the teaching mode, the project cultivated the independent learning ability of the student team. Through field stays, students' knowledge of basic theories will be stabilized, and the students will apply what they have learned to solutions with field partners and build students' proficiency in project implementation. The project team will continue to call on interdisciplinary teachers, jointly executing, creating ideas, and leading the USR program to realize the target value of talent cultivation through the implementation of green electricity and intelligent automation projects.

【Students of STUST designed a miniature version of the improved waterwheel blade in the circuit course design.】

【The waterwheel model designed by the USR team of STUST in the course of electrical circuits was being actually tested and operated in a fishpond. 】

【STUST's "Carbon Storage and Fishing" USR project team was holding its end-of-term course exchange meeting.】