Credit Hours - 3

This course is to build upon the foundation of good written communication skill acquired by the student in the Academic Writing I through exercises that consolidate the student’s knowledge, skills and strategies, and prepares the student for scientific written communication needs at the higher levels.

Credit Hours - 3

This course will introduce students to the basics of soil physical and engineering properties and students will also be imparted with the knowledge of environmental engineering applications of soil mechanics and be made familiar with standard laboratory and field method of soil analysis. The course will cover introduction to soil mechanics, soil Classification according to USDA, AASHTO and USCS, Atterberg Limits, Definition of weight-volume relationships, soil compaction, effective stresses in soils, steady state, flow nets and Anisotropic flow.

Credit Hours - 3

This course introduces students to physical environment and crop production and will provide students with the requisite knowledge in crop production processes. The course will cover what the adaptation and management practices to the environment are; soil and water conservation, farming, cropping and agro-forest systems. The method of plant propagation, crop establishment and management will also form part of the course. Students’ knowledge in weed control strategies, pest and disease control and integrated crop nutrient management will be enhanced. This course is intended to be delivered through discussions, lectures, student projects and presentations.

Credit Hours - 3

Axial loading: Dilation and bulk modulus, Stress-strain relationship for fibre-reinforced composite materials, Stress concentrations, Plastic deformations, and Residue stresses. Torsion loading: Stress concentrations in circular shafts, Plastic deformations in circular shafts, Circular shafts made of an elastoplastic material, residual stresses in circular shafts, Noncircular members, and Thin-walled hollow shafts. Bending: Stress concentrations, Plastic deformations, Unsymmetrical bending analysis, General case of eccentric axial loading analysis, and curved members. Analysis and design of beams for bending: Non-prismatic beams. Shearing stresses in beams and thin-walled members: Plastic deformations and unsymmetrical loading of thin-walled members and shear centre. Transformations of plain strain and measurement of strain (strain Rosette). Principal stresses under a given loading: Principal stresses in a beam, design of transmission shafts, and Stresses under combined loading. Deflection of beams. Columns. Energy Methods

Credit Hours - 2

Physical characteristics: Shape, size, weight, volume, surface area, density, porosity, colour, appearance, drag coefficient, centre of gravity. Mechanical properties: Hardness, compressive strength, tensile strength impact resistance, compressibility, shear resistance, sliding coefficient of friction, static coefficient of friction, coefficient of expansion, plasticity, bending strength, aerodynamic properties, hydrodynamic properties. Thermal properties: Specific heat, thermal capacity, thermal conductivity, surface conductance, absorptance, emittance, transmittance. Electrical properties: Conductance, resistance, capacitance, dielectric properties, electromagnetic properties. Optical properties: Light transmittance, light reflectance, light reflectance, light absorptance.

Credit Hours - 3

This course will introduce the concepts of continuum, no-slip condition, the continuum concept, types of fluid and fluid flows, pressure at a point in a fluid and manometry Fluid properties: viscosity, surface tension and capillary effects. Fluid Statics: hydrostatic forces on submerged plane and curved surfaces; buoyancy and stability.

Credit Hours - 3

The course covers differential equations (first and second order ordinary differential equations, series solutions, and system of ordinary differential equations), Initial-value problems (Laplace transforms, partial differential equations, boundary-value problems, Fourier series and transforms), and applications.

Credit Hours - 3

University of Ghana has a list of required courses in African Studies which students can choose from.

Credit Hours - 3

The course focuses on providing students with the skills and tools to identify, formulate and solve surveying engineering problems. Specific topics will include definitions and types of surveying. Principles, field surveying, levelling instruments, differential and profile levelling, contours, map work scale, reading and interpreting maps. Description of the theodolite, the three main parts and its application. The use of the instrument – setting up the instrument, reading of the vertical and horizontal angles. The course is intended to be delivered most by practical field work, discussions, students’ projects and presentations.

Credit Hours - 2

The course will cover topics in agribusiness, livestock culture, and the preparation of animals for food production purposes. Students learn about the fundamental principles behind livestock husbandry and mass animal production, including processing methods and animal breeding techniques. Students will also learn about the origin, distribution and characteristics of breeds of poultry in Ghana and Africa; definitions of terms used in poultry production; systems of poultry production; adaptation of poultry to the tropics and the poultry industry in Ghana This course will be delivered demonstrations, discussions, presentations and student projects.

Credit Hours - 3

It leverages computational methods that permeate the sciences and engineering through the use of the Python programming language and its extensive libraries for data manipulation, scientific computing, and visualization. Topics to be treated include Python concepts: expressions, values, types, variables, programs and algorithms, control flow, file I/O, Python execution model, data structures: Lists, set, dictionary (mapping), tuples, graph, list slicing, list-comprehension, mutable and immutable data structures, functions, data abstraction, testing and debugging.

Credit Hours - 3

This course introduces students to fundamental concepts of thermodynamics, energy conversion processes in the context of engineering applications, laws of thermodynamics, analyse and solve problems in a methodical fashion. It will treat the first law of thermodynamics and apply the law to simple systems involving solids, liquids, and gases. The second law of thermodynamics will also be introduced, including Carnot, gas, vapor, and Rankine power cycles. Practical application of thermodynamics in different fields of engineering will be considered.

Credit Hours - 3

The course will cover internal resultant loadings in simple plane trusses and beams, elastic properties of solids under tensile and torsional loads, stress, strain, and deformation due to axial, torsional, bending, transverse loads, and simple combined loading will be studied. Also, transformation of stress and stresses in thin-walled pressure vessels will be covered.

Credit Hours - 4

The course covers the concept of a function of a single variable, graphs of functions - linear, quadratic, and higher degree polynomial functions, rational functions, inequalities in one and two variables, binomial theorem, circular measure, trigonometric functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, hyperbolic functions. Algebra of complex numbers. Vectors and matrices, the solution of linear systems of equations, vector spaces and subspaces, orthogonality, determinants, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, linear transformations