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AREN 617: Farm Structures and Environmental Control

This course is designed to present to students the planning, siting, design and integration of structures on the farm, so that their productivity is increased in an environmentally sustainable manner. The course will include the various steps involved in the...

AREN 618: Agricultural Materials Handling

This course aims at showing students the principles of handling agricultural materials within the agricultural production value chain to ensure good quality products are delivered to the final consumer. Some of the topics to be treated will include design...

AREN 619: Systems Analysis And Postharvest Systems

The goal of this course is to equip students with the requisite skills to optimize systems and processes. The first half of the course deals with the use of mathematical modeling to design optimal and efficient systems and processes for the handling and...

AREN 620: Seminar I

In year 1, each student in the Department is expected to attend all seminars specified and make his/her own presentation on selected topics to an audience. Each student will be expected to make at least one oral presentation to be assessed each semester and...

AREN 621: Unit Operations in Agricultural Produce Processing

This course deals with the advanced practical study of large scale unit operations necessary for the processing of agricultural commodities. Students will therefore go through the process of developing industrial systems for the processing of agricultural...

AREN 622: Solar Thermal Engineering

This course is designed to give students an understanding of the analysis and design of solar energy collection systems and how to model thermal energy storage devices. The use of solar energy for drying of agricultural produce will be discussed. The course...

AREN 623: Grain Storage Systems

This course deals with the design, selection, siting, operation and management of grain storage systems. The course will therefore provide a detailed interrogation of all aspects of an efficient grain storage system operation. There will also be the...

AREN 624: Refrigeration Design And Cold Chain Management

This course deals with the practical design and operations of cold chain systems. The students will therefore be taken through the various steps and conditions necessary for the design of a cold chain system and how to manage commodity specific systems....

AREN 625: Principles of Irrigation Engineering

This course is intended to introduce students to the importance of irrigation and elements of irrigation systems. It will enable students have full grasp of basic soil-water relationships and soil water measurement. Additionally the course will deal with...

AREN 628: Advanced Commodity Drying

This course aims to equip students with the science required to efficiently conduct a commodity specific drying process. The student will therefore examine the various reasons for agricultural commodity drying and how to vary process parameters to achieve...

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