Agricultural engineers work in research and development, production, sales, or management. Preparation Agricultural Engineering graduates may improve crop production system, design animal facilities, analyze food production systems, or test machinery. They must have strong analytical stills and be detail oriented.
Until that year, Edmund Hillary had lived in relative obscurity as a beekeeper in Auckland, New Zealand, but the unprecedented feat of scaling the world's highest mountain brought him a fame he could hardly have imagined.
Sir Edmund Percival Ed Hillary KG ONZ KBE (20 July 1919 â 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt. TIME magazine named Hillary one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. Hillary became interested in mountaineering while in secondary school. He made his first major climb in 1939, reaching the summit of Mount Ollivier.