IGP Institute 2018 Year in Review IGP Supporters and Partners
Supporters
Partners Table of Contents
Director’s Message 2–3
IGP Institute Participant Map 4–5
2018 Features
Wide World of Wheat 6–7
Showcasing Soybeans 8–9
Tropical Training on Corn 10–11
Educating Sorghum Buyers 12–13
Expanding Exams 14–15
2018 IGP Institute Year in Photos 16–21
2018 By the Numbers 22–25
Faculty and Staff Directory 26–27
Course Supporters 28 Director’s Message
At Kansas State University education program. I can’t thank these one of the values we two enough for their leadership and hope to impart on dedication to the IGP Institute. our students is the In addition to leading the daily importance of being a operations, Shawn is also continuing to lifelong learner. Nothing build his curriculum area. We’ve enjoyed embodies that spirit a good relationship with the International Gordon Smith more than our work at Association of Operative Millers (IAOM), Director the IGP Institute where but in 2018 Shawn established a more we deliver an educational formal connection with the organization experience that is second to none to a by garnering their educational support of global grain-based audience. his trainings. All of our standard course Gordon Smith poses with coworkers at This year we proudly hosted 1,512 offerings in grain processing and flour the Ardent Mills facility in Saginaw, Texas, participants representing 52 countries milling are offered in partnership with including K-State Grain Science and Industry in 72 on-site and distance offerings. This IAOM or Buhler, Inc. These partnerships alumna, Megan Holton, who helped with his is a testament to our IGP team and their are vital to our mission of bringing training during his internship. renewed connectivity with the Department relevant education to industry leaders. 30 participants from across the U.S. as of Grain Science and Industry. well as one international grain industry Trina also carries that IAOM partnership professional. Carlos Campabadal guides In 2018, due to a job change and to the distance education area by the on-site training with this course. retirement we had the opportunity to supporting the online flour milling make some personnel adjustments. correspondence courses. To learn more In addition, Carlos continues to build the Shawn Thiele and Trina Adams have about this relationship be sure to read the feed manufacturing and grain quality carried the mission forward by assuming Expanding Exams story in this publication. management offerings and is active in additional responsibilities. Shawn is trainings across the globe. An example of Our relationship with the Grain Elevator serving as the interim associate director his work abroad is featured in the Tropical and Processing Society (GEAPS) continues along with leading the grain processing Training on Corn article. to expand through the Hands-On Training and flour milling curriculum, and Trina that we hosted in December. This was the Adams is at the helm of the distance second offering of the course that trained 2 Our Mission To provide
At the IGP Institute, our instructors operations as well as shift milling, mill innovative always enjoy the interaction with operations and maintenance. the course participants and trade Leading my technical training was Kansas and relevant team members. Offering customized State alumna and head miller Megan experiences is part of our mission to education Holton. She provided insight around unit create an increased demand for U.S. operations, mechanical problem solving, grains and oilseeds. These teams are and technical equipment repair, maintenance and pest often brought to us through our state management. Much of our focus was and national commodity partners. There programs bridging “book knowledge” to practical, are three stories in this Year in Review real-life challenges. to enhance that showcase different aspects of our trade team engagements. Be sure to read On behalf of all of us at the IGP Institute, the market the Wide World of Wheat, Showcasing we thank you for your support of our Soybeans and Educating Sorghum Buyers educational trainings and outreach. We preference, stories to learn more about our important look forward to collaborating with you work in this education area. in the future and if we can be of further consumption service to you, please let us know. I began this letter talking about the and utilization value of lifelong education, and I am no Sincerely, exception to being a lifelong learner. of U.S. cereal This summer, I spent six weeks in the Ardent facility in Saginaw, Texas, primarily Gordon Smith grains, oilseeds focusing on technical milling and milling IGP Institute Director operations as “the oldest intern on and their value- Professor and Head, Grain Science record.” My time in Saginaw exposed and Industry me to overall plant operations and added products departments outside of the mill, such as grain receiving, handling, packaging, for the global quality assurance and broad plant grain industry. 3 2018 72 Courses 1,512 Participants 52 Countries Australia Malaysia Tanzania Barbados Mexico Tunisia Bolivia Morocco Turkey Brazil Mozambique U.K. Cambodia New Zealand U.S. Canada Nicaragua Uruguay China Nigeria Venezuela Colombia Norway Vietnam Costa Rica Pakistan Dominican Republic Panama Ecuador Peru Egypt Philippines El Salvador Portugal Ghana Puerto Rico Guatemala Russia India Saudi Arabia Indonesia Serbia Ivory Coast Singapore Jamaica South Africa Jordan Sri Lanka Korea Sweden Lebanon Taiwan
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