InquiriesFostering?creativity?through?education?in?textile?materialsExperimental?FarmMachineFabricationEducationTextileEducationTextile?machineryMachine?toolsUsing?fiber?and?machine?fabrication?technology?to?actually?make?thingsTextile?Education56Ourundergraduateandgraduatestudentsexperimentwithtextilefabricationtechnologyusingspinningmachinery,whichmakesthreadfromrawfibermaterials,andotherequipmentwhilecarryingoutresearchandexperimentsinanefforttodevelopnewmaterials.Further,intheadjacentTextilePrototypeDevelopmentCenter,anextensivearrayoftestingequipmentisavailablefortaskssuchasevaluatingthepropertiesofthreadsandfabrics.StudentsoftheFunctionalMachineryandMechanicsCourseandBioengineeringCourseusemachiningandmeasurementroomsforexperimentationandpracticeintheareaofmachinefabrication.Techniciansalsocreateandfabricateexperimentalequipmentuponrequestfromotherdepartmentsandcourses.Mostimportantly,thesefacilitiesenablestudentstoexperiencetheprocessofcreatingthingsbyactuallyfabricating,creating,andmeasuringtheirownexperimentaldevices.AttheExperimentalFarm,wetrainhighlyinquisitiveandcreativestudentswithdistinctivepersonalitiesthroughthetechnicalapplicationofacademictheorytotextilerawmaterialsandingredientsandthroughresearcheducationrelatingtofieldsciencewiththegoalofcontributingtothedevelopmentofthecommunity.TheentrancetotheExperimentalFarmLaboratoryontheon‐campusExperimentalFarmissurroundedbycherryblossoms.Inpracticalfieldscience,farmingactivitiesthatarealsopopularoutsidethedepartmentincludethestudyofcottoncultivation,sheepshearing,silkcultivation,andnaturalsilkwormcocoonandeggcollectionaswellassweetpotatoplantingandharvesting,potatoharvesting,andbuckwheatcultivation.OutlookforresearchCampus?Farm:?3‐15‐1?Tokida,?Ueda,?Nagano?PrefectureOmuroFarm:?6788?Kano,?Tomi,?Nagano?prefectureCottonballsthathaveburstopenduringcottoncultivation(left)andcollectedsilkwormcocoons(right)Fifthinstardomesticsilkwormlarvaejustbeforethepupastage(left)andfifthinstarwild(natural)silkwormlarvae(right)
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