Credit Hours - 3

Building planning, farmstead planning. Documentation for a building project. Site selection, building arrangement, planning of farm buildings, building materials design of farm structures; foundations, floors, walls, and roof.  Livestock housing: Animal behaviour, Animal environmental requirements, cattle, pig, poultry, sheep and goat housing. Rural buildings, thermal resistance of building components, rate of overall heat loss or gain from a building; Psychrometry, moisture transmission, vapour barriers, heating and cooling loads; overview of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems and equipment.

Credit Hours - 3

Components of micro-irrigation system. System consideration; design and installation consideration, maintenance considerations, management consideration, economic considerations. System components; emission devices, distribution system, control and automation system, and filtration systems. Systems types; surface drip irrigation, subsurface drip irrigation, bubbler irrigation, micro-sprinkler irrigation. General design principles; initial assessments, micro-irrigation layouts and components, the design process. Source of water; water quantity and quality, groundwater, surface water. System hydraulics; hydraulic principles, total head, pump energy requirements, total frictional head, pipeline friction head loss, multiple outlet pipes, fitting, valve and component losses, emitter connection losses, emitter hydraulics, micro-irrigation lateral lines, lateral line design procedures, manifolds, and pipe system design.

Credit Hours - 2

The course involves fluid kinematics (velocity and acceleration fields; vorticity and rotationality, visualization of fluid flows, control volume and system representations), Similitude, dimensional analysis, and modelling (dimensional analysis; Buckingham Pi Theorem; common dimensionless groups; modelling and similitude; cavitation and water hammer analysis, unsteady pipe flow, dimensional analysis of pipe flow; pipe networks; flowrate measurement), and flow over immersed bodies (drag and lift; friction and pressure drag; flow over flat plates, across cylinders and spheres). 

Credit Hours - 1

This course is designed to offer students the practical hands-on experience attachment with industry. The department through the Internship Coordinator, arranges with engineering establishments throughout the country for students to have their practical training during the long vacation. Students do a six-week practical attachment training with industry under strict supervision. At the end of the training, students submit written reports which must be endorsed by their supervisors to the Internship Coordinator.

Credit Hours - 3

This course covers the principles and current practices of machine element design. The course introduces the design of machine members for static and fatigue strength. Topics include: Introduction to mechanical engineering design (Principles of mechanical design), Load and stress analysis for design, Deflection of machine members, Design of machine members under static loading, Fatigue failure resulting from variable loading, and Design of transmission shafts (ASME code). Group design project involving engineering (mechanical) design process, CAD, FEA, CAE, CAM, fabrication of machine components and assemblies, design a physical system and build a working prototype, professional ethics, codes and standards, project planning and communication.

Credit Hours - 3

It is designed to offer the students the tools needed for rigorous presentation of the effect of the time value of money on engineering problem solving and capacity to act with ethical and efficient professionalism. The course will examine Principles and economic analysis of engineering decision making; Cost concept, Economic environment. Price and demand relations. Competition. Make-verses-purchase studies. Principles and application of money-time relationships. Depreciation. Money and banking. Price changes and inflation. Business and company finance.

Credit Hours - 3

Probability functions axioms and rules, counting techniques, conditional probability, independence, and mutually exclusive events. Discrete Random Variable: Expectation and variance, Binomial distribution, Hypergeometric distribution, Poisson distribution, the relationship between Poisson and Binomial. Continuous Random Variable: Percentiles and cumulative distribution function, expectation and variance, uniform distribution, normal distribution, exponential distribution, and other distributions. Joint Distributions. Covariance and Correlation. Sampling Distributions: Distributions of statistics, central limit theorem, samples from normal distribution (t-distribution, X2 distribution, and F-distributions). Estimation: Common point estimators, interval estimators. Hypothesis Testing. Introduction to Regression Analysis. Engineering applications in quality control, process control, communication systems and speech recognition.

Credit Hours - 3

Grain Quality: Quality factors, grade standards. Grain drying. Also, Fruits and Vegetable Quality; Fruit and vegetable storage requirements; Handling systems and packaging: Fundamentals, Sun drying, In-store drying, high-capacity drying. Grain Storage: Crib Storage, Bag Storage, Bulk Storage, Grain Pest. Grain Drying and Storage in the Tropics: Deterioration during storage, drying systems. Grain drying, Water activity, moisture diffusion, drying- rate curves, drying systems. Principles of Size reduction, size reduction equipment; mixing and mixing equipment. Cold-storage systems for fruits, Processing of fruits and vegetables, Fruit and vegetable post-harvest systems in the tropics. Controlled atmosphere storage, modified atmosphere storage, dehydration of fruits and vegetables.

Credit Hours - 3

Agricultural product mediums and machinery as well as the various sources of energy and power (mechanical, animal, solar, etc.) available on the farm for field activities. This will include basis of design of farm machines, selection of appropriate farm power/energy sources application to mechanization, application of soil mechanics principles to design of soil engaging equipment for tillage and earthmoving, methods for predicting performance, field and laboratory studies on soil profiles and soil disturbance, physical properties on tillage, planting, harvesting, texture, mass, porosity and compaction. Mechanical properties of soil on tillage resistance.

Credit Hours - 3

This course is intended to provide students in the department with the general description of soil system, definition of soil water, soil moisture characteristics, soil water retention, basic concepts of soil water dynamics, methods of determining soil water content, infiltration, importance of irrigation management. Students will acquire the knowledge to determine. Crop water requirement; evaporation, transpiration, evapotranspiration (ET), potential evapotranspiration (PET), irrigation water requirements; consumptive use and its estimation, dependable and effective rainfall, net and gross irrigation requirement, field and scheme water supply), irrigation scheduling principles, soil-plant-water relationship, irrigation efficiencies, measurement of irrigation water and delivery rates. Land grading and field layout. Irrigation methods: border, check basin, furrow, sprinkler and drip irrigation. Design, management and maintenance of irrigation systems. Gender considerations in planning, design, selection and management of irrigation systems.

Credit Hours - 3

The course will help students understand components and processes of natural hydrologic systems, hydrologic cycle, precipitation and snow melt, infiltration, storm frequency and duration analysis. Hydrograph analysis. Frequency and probability with application to precipitation and floods. Evaporation, transpiration and evapotranspiration. Ground water resources. Pumping tests and water balance studies.

Credit Hours - 3

The course will introduce students to the principles of heat exchangers, conduction of heat through solid walls, cylinders and spheres, and heat transfer in fins. Students will also understand Black and gray body concepts in radiation heat transfer. Topics to be covered are radiation heat transfer, black body and grey body concepts, emissivity, absorptivity, transmissivity, radiosity, Lambert’s law, geometric factor, radiation shields, parallel plates and electrical analogy. The course is intended to be delivered through demonstration, student projects, discussions and presentations.

Credit Hours - 3

The course involves matrices, linear homogeneous systems, and eigenvectors and values. Numerical methods and errors, stability, and convergence. Solving systems of linear equations: Gaussian elimination, Gauss-Jordan, LU decomposition methods. Solving nonlinear equations: Fixed point iteration, bisection method, false position method, secant, and Newton Raphson method. Curve-fitting and interpolation: Lagrange and Newton’s polynomial.

Credit Hours - 3

This course seeks to introduce the student to the machinery used within the various stages of agricultural production. Students will have knowledge in machinery for tillage, planting, husbandry activities, harvesting and handling as well as selected livestock machinery. Students will also be equipped to determine machine performance and select suitable machinery to meet the performance requirements of various agricultural operations.