Credit Hours - 3

SOIL AND WATER ENGINEERING OPTION (Year 1 Semester 2)

Elective (Students may be required to take 3-6 credits of electives)

Objectives: The objective of this course is to provide students with a fundamental understanding of hydraulics and the principles of discharge measurement structures. Students will learn about basic hydraulics, continuity, equation of motion, and hydrostatic pressure distribution. The course aims to equip students with knowledge of total and specific energy, critical flow, and various discharge measurement structures including flow through pipes, open channel flow, broad crested weirs, sharp crested weirs, flumes, and orifices.

Learning Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Understand and apply the basic principles of hydraulics.
• Utilize the continuity and equation of motion in hydraulic calculations.
• Analyze hydrostatic pressure distribution in fluid systems.
• Explain the concepts of total and specific energy in fluid flow.
• Identify and analyze critical flow conditions.
• Design and evaluate flow through pipes and open channels.
• Apply the principles of discharge measurement using broad crested weirs, sharp crested weirs, flumes, and orifices.

Course Content: This course will cover the following topics: Introduction to basic hydraulics, Continuity and equation of motion, hydrostatic pressure distribution, total and specific energy concepts, critical flow analysis, flow through pipes: principles and applications, open channel flow: principles and applications, broad crested weirs: design and function, sharp crested weirs: design and function, flumes: types, design, and applications, orifices: types, design, and applications.

Course Delivery:

The course will be delivered through a combination of:

Lectures: Providing theoretical foundations and contextual understanding of discharge measurement structures.

Practical Laboratory Sessions: Offering hands-on experience with hydraulic measurements and analysis.

Field Trips: Allowing students to observe and participate in real-world discharge measurement projects.

Guest Lectures: Featuring industry experts who will share insights into current practices and innovations in hydraulic engineering and discharge measurement.

Credit Hours - 3

This course is intended to introduce student to Mechatronics. It will also enable the students to acquire the necessary competencies in Electric Circuits and Components. This will then lead them to understand the complexities and working principles of Arduino programming and interfacing, data acquisition, sensors, and actuators.

Credit Hours - 3

This course seeks to introduce students to the use of various conveying systems discussed earlier in the processing of agricultural materials. Students will therefore be exposed to how miniature or variants of typical conveyor systems are employed in the processing (teaming, dewatering, drying, separation, etc.) of agricultural materials. Basic materials handling concepts, plant layout and materials handling, Design of belt, screw, chain, and bucket conveyors; Design of bins and hoppers; safety, environment and human factors in materials handling.

Credit Hours - 3

The purpose of this course is to impart to the students’ knowledge in green engineering and Life Cycle Assessments techniques. The topics to be treated in this course include Carbon accounting; Energy Efficiency and renewable enable resources and technologies; Sustainable engineering technologies for resource-constrained settings.

Credit Hours - 3

The purpose of this course to enable students to understand and appreciate that mechanization is not only practiced in crop production but also in animal production. Most often, crop production receives more attention than livestock, as such this course seeks to offer the student much more knowledge on the methods of livestock mechanization. Some topics to be treated included, diary machinery, forage harvesters, animal feed machinery, etc.

Credit Hours - 3

This course is designed to introduce the student to the various components of precision Agriculture. At the end of the course the students should have enough knowledge on the different components of a precision farming set-up. They will be equipped with knowledge to understand and appreciate GPS technology, GIS, yield monitoring systems, yield mapping, precision machine calibration, variable-rate technology for farming activities, IT in agriculture, automation, etc.

Credit Hours - 3

The course will prepare the student towards the planning and organization of labour and equipment for optimum output within any agricultural production chain. Students will also be equipped with the skills to be able carry out analysis of machine capacities, power requirements and rates of work. They will also be able to perform evaluation of running costs, depreciation and machinery replacement policies, analysis and prediction of operating costs and work rates, field capacity and efficiency, machinery operation costs, machinery selection and replacement.

Credit Hours - 3

This course will cover water availability, water allocation, water regulation and policy including legal and institutional arrangements for all levels-horizontal and vertical. Water Demand Management, Integrated Water Resources Management, Flood risk assessment and management, peculiar issues with surface and groundwater resources, water resources planning and water demand management.

Credit Hours - 3

This course is intended to develop students’ understanding of basic principles concepts, analysis and design of hydraulic structures such as weirs and barrage, regulation works, dams, reservoirs, storm surge barriers, spillways, canals, culverts, river training works regulation works, silt excluding devises, guide banks and spurs. Also, the designed and maintenance of these structures for managing and utilizing water resources.

Credit Hours - 3

The course will focus on the effective design of machine parts, principles and standards to observe, product specification and selection of standard parts like bearings, gears, keys and springs, manufacturing processes and the role of CAD/CAM. Students will acquire the skills to enable them design replacement parts for various farm machinery.

Credit Hours - 3

This course is intended to introduce students to the importance of the elements of climate and the different types of radiation and how they influence evapotranspiration.

The purpose of this course is to equip students with knowledge to be able to apply heat and water balance of earth’s atmosphere to the principles involved in agro-meteorology and hydrology. The focus will be on solar radiation, short and long wave radiation, direct and diffuse radiation, net radiation, measurement and estimation, and radiation utilization in photosynthesis. It will enhance the students’ understanding of energy balance/Bowen ratio, evaporation and evapotranspiration models, soil temperatures, drought, windbreaks and shelter belts.

Credit Hours - 3

Students work independently on an original, extension or modification of an engineering project under the guidance of an approved supervisor. Students are required to apply the acquired knowledge in earlier courses to design and test an engineering system or process to meet standard requirements. At the end of the project, students will make oral presentation of the work and submit a thesis. Students work independently on original projects under the direction of their approved advisors, make an oral presentation at a seminar, prepare and submit thesis for approval.

Credit Hours - 3

The course discusses definition of management. Evolution and Perspectives of Management: classical, human relations and management science. Hierarchy of Management, Managerial roles and Management Styles.  Inside and Outside an Organisation:  adapting to change and understanding the environment. Management Functions: Planning and Decision Making, Organising, Leading and Communicating. The Entrepreneurial Process and types of Businesses.  Creating New Products/Services and Business plans.  Evaluation: Analysis of new ventures, valuation techniques, Intellectual Property Issues. Financing New Ventures. Elements of Marketing Management. Managing Growth and Exit Strategy.

Credit Hours - 3

Introduction to green supply chain management, Reverse Logistics/ Closing the loop, Carbon foot printing, Life Cycle Analysis, Green supply chain strategies; demand forecasting, planning and management; inventory planning, management and control; transportation planning, management and execution.

Credit Hours - 3

The purpose of this course is to teach the students the methods of ensuring mechanization is practiced in a climate friendly manner. It will introduce students to climate smart mechanization practices for field preparation and harvesting. The course will equip students to understand conservation agricultural practices, soil and water management to mitigate the problem of climate change, cultural practices to mitigate the problem of climate change. The course will finally offer students the knowledge in climate change and agriculture and conservation agriculture technologies etc.

Credit Hours - 3

The purpose of this course is for students to have knowledge of materials used in maintenance of agricultural machines and understand the role of instrument and equipment used in maintenance practices. The course will introduce students to the handling of basic maintenance activities of agricultural machinery. Their knowledge will be enhanced in machinery wear, breakages and the use of instruments to measure defects. The course will empower them in the selection of materials for repairs, diagnostic testing, bench work, blacksmithing and welding; repair and maintenance of agricultural equipment.

Credit Hours - 3

This course seeks to introduce the student to the various forms of renewable energy, how they are harnessed, stored and used. The course will provide an engineering perspective to renewable energy sources. At the end of this course, students will be able to design renewable energy systems that meet specific energy demands. Students will also be provided with knowledge in solar energy, wind power energy, hydropower energy, biomass conversion processes and biofuels, etc. and their storage.

Credit Hours - 3

This course covers fundamentals of subsurface flow and transport, emphasizing the role of groundwater in the hydrologic cycle, the relation of groundwater flow to geologic structure, and the management of contaminated groundwater. The course also teaches the physical processes that control the flow of water below the ground, surface-water groundwater interactions, transport of solutes, and well hydraulics. It prepares students on topics related to groundwater production, remediation of polluted soils and industrial sites, and management of wastewater.

Credit Hours - 3

Students will be provided with the needed skills to assess drainage criteria, determine and design subsurface drainage, identify and select and install drainage systems. It will include: Water logging- causes and impacts; Drainage, objectives of drainage, familiarization with the drainage problems of the state, Salt balance, reclamation of saline and alkaline soils, leaching requirements, conjunctive use of fresh and saline water. Surface drainage coefficient, types of surface drainage, design of surface drains; Derivation of Hooghoudt’s and Ernst’s drain spacing equations; design of subsurface drainage system

Credit Hours - 3

In this course, principles derived from fluid dynamics along with empirical knowledge are used to solve problems encountered by hydraulic engineers. Specifically the course will be dealing with: theory for designing and analysing open-channel and closed conduit systems and application to water-supply management, flood management, and environmental restoration. Open-channel flow, pumps, dams, spillways, and stilling basins, closed conduit flow and water distribution.

Credit Hours - 3

The purpose of this course is to empower students to acquire the requisite knowledge in Suffocation hazards in Grain bins; Selecting optimum equipment sets; Selection techniques to minimize bottlenecks; Determining bottlenecks in grain processing systems; Performance cost and design considerations in seed processing facilities. Storage economics.

Credit Hours - 3

The course will provide students with the requisite knowledge in tractor and implement, construction and operational features of transmission systems, implement attachment and control. The course will enhance students’ abilities to appreciate tractive performance, traction aid, performance and efficiency indices, soil compaction and smear, tractor design and function, tractor hitching system, kinematic and equilibrium analysis of tractor/implement combination draw bar for performance prediction.

Credit Hours - 3

This course will enhance the theoretical and practical knowledge and skills of students in soil and water conservation techniques and watershed management activities, identify conditions of land degradation assessment and identify, design current soil conservation practices. Soil water potential concepts; potential distribution of soil water under field conditions; methods of soil water determinations; soil water retention curves; hysteresis. Soil Water Flow: flow of water in model systems - tubes and pipes; Darcy’s Law; transport of soil water under saturated conditions; transport of soil water under unsaturated conditions; determination of hydraulic conductivity. Soil Water Flow Processes in the Field: infiltration; runoff; internal drainage and redistribution; evaporation. Basic concepts of soil erosion; control of soil erosion; Mechanics of wind and water erosion; water and wind erosion control practices; concept of runoff and its estimation.

Credit Hours - 3

The course covers discussions on contracts (formation, performance, breach, and termination), corporations and partnerships, insurance, professional liability, risk management, environmental law, torts, property law, evidence and dispute resolution. The course emphasizes those principles necessary to provide engineers with the ability to recognize issues which are likely to arise in the engineering profession and introduces them to the complexities and vagaries of the legal profession. Students will gain knowledge and skills in the legal systems relevant for engineering: contract law, intellectual property and tort.

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

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

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

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 - 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

In specific sense, students will be introduced to methods and requirements of establishing logical and empirical truths. This is to make critical analysis or reasoning a component of the practical lives of students and a significant means for the solution of problems generated in various academic disciplines. The following topics, among others, will be treated by the end of the Semester: thoughts as objects of scrutiny, types of definition, contrasting types of discourse, the normative and the empirical, the difference between induction and deduction, further discussion of induction (in the sciences and everyday life), polemical tricks and rhetorical ploys (informal fallacies).

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 - 2

This course is intended to provide fresh students in the department with the necessary background knowledge in Biosystems Engineering. The course will trigger the students’ interest needed to enable them acquire the understanding and skills in the field of Biosystems Engineering. The focus will be to broaden the knowledge of students on how they can apply the skills they will acquire through engineering, math, and biology to design systems to manage soil and water resources and to design and develop biological and machine products.

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

Computing Systems: Hardware/software components & organization, types of software, types of computer languages and concepts for executing a program. Engineering problem-solving methodology. Introduction to software tools for solving engineering problems, spreadsheets for engineers – MS Excel for Windows. Technical use of MS Excel: Characteristics of spreadsheets, Arithmetic operations, Common engineering functions and operations, logic operations, plotting, and simple engineering applications. Introduction to MATLAB for engineering problem-solving.

Credit Hours - 3

History of electronics from vacuum tubes to Large Scale (LS) through to Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) systems. Semi conductivity. Diodes and Diode circuits: Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT), the physical structure of the BJT, circuit analysis. Field-Effect Transistors and Circuits: MOSFET characteristics and model, biasing techniques, analog MOSFET amplifier. Digital electronics and logic gates analysis.

Credit Hours - 3

Electricity supply types: definition and characteristics of AC and DC voltages and currents, instantaneous, average and RMS values, energy and power, and simple billing calculations of household appliances. AC power: active, reactive, and apparent power, power factor and correction methods. Introduction to electricity generation and sources. AC transmission and distribution for 1-phase, 2-phase, and 3-phase. Introduction to transformers and operations. Introduction to motors. Electrical safety.

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 - 3

Electricity supply types: definition and characteristics of AC and DC voltages and currents, instantaneous, average and RMS values, energy and power, and simple billing calculations of household appliances. AC power: active, reactive, and apparent power, power factor and correction methods. Introduction to electricity generation and sources. AC transmission and distribution for 1-phase, 2-phase, and 3-phase. Introduction to transformers and operations. Introduction to motors. Electrical safety.

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

The course covers the motions of particles and rigid bodies, and the forces that accompany or cause those motions. It will involve Newton's laws, the work and energy principle, and the impulse and momentum principle.

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 - 4

The course involves Introduction to Multivariable Calculus, Derivatives of Multivariable Functions (partial derivatives, gradient and directional derivatives, divergence, curl, multivariable chain rule, Laplacian, Jacobian, applications, etc.), Integrating Multivariable Functions (line integrals for scalar functions, line integrals in vector fields, double integrals, triple integrals, change of variables, polar, spherical, and cylindrical coordinates, surface integrals, flux in 3D, and applications, etc.), Green's, Stokes', and the divergence theorems.

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

Students will be taken initially through fundamental issues in grammar and composition in order to consolidate their language skills in these areas. Subsequently, reading and writing skills relevant to university work will be introduced. These will include the structure of the essay, unity, completeness and coherence in essay writing; summarizing as a skill basic to exposition, writing from sources, referencing skills and avoiding plagiarism. Usage and conventions, percentages and proportions, sentence connectors, prefixes and suffixes; constructing an essay, general principles, constructing a paragraph, paragraph logic, constructing a sentence; well –crafted sentences, standard errors, punctuation and presentation, direct speech, presentation conventions, quoting from a text, summary; punctuation, how punctuation can strengthen a sentence, the use of colon and semi-colon. The course will be taught in small groups and class activities are characterized by group work, oral presentations and extensive practical assignments.

Credit Hours - 3

The course covers discussion on atoms to molecules, introduction to the chemistry of organic compounds and biochemistry, chemical kinetics and equilibrium, thermochemistry, redox reactions, and acids and bases. Students will be able to explain simple chemical models which has application in engineering related fields, gain insight into the physical origins of chemical behaviour, guide in the design of materials with specific chemical properties, predict a materials response under some chemical conditions, and describe some biochemical processes that occurs in human body.

Credit Hours - 2

The course will introduce students to emerging technologies and trends, engineering ethics, engineering communication tools, and metrology. Also, students will be introduced to and be able to apply the principles of the engineering design process to a case study or project. Moreover, students shall be provided with group advisement regarding specific fields of engineering.

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

Credit Hours - 3

The course introduces students to theories of vibrations and waves, electricity and magnetism and modern physics. The course provides students with a foundation on how to model real-life scenario for engineering designs. For vibrations and waves, the focus is on generation and propagation. For electricity and magnetism, the course concentrates on the relationship between electric fields and magnetic flux and discusses some of its applications including; cranes for lifting huge loads in industries and magnetic levitation for fast-moving trains in transportation. Finally, for modern physics, much attention is paid to quantum theories because of the breakthrough in electronics.

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.

Credit Hours - 4

Students are introduced to concepts of limits and continuity of a function of a single variable as well as differentiation of trigonometric functions and their inverses, exponential and logarithmic functions, basic concepts on Leibnitz’s rule, trapezium and Simpson rules, Rolle’s Theorem, introduction to differentiation and integration of vector functions, systems of equations, inequalities, vectors, and matrices.

Credit Hours - 3

This course covers basic vector concepts of force, moment of a force, conditions of equilibrium of machine members such as beams, trusses, and frames under static loads, friction, distributed forces, determination of centroid and centre of mass, area moment of inertia, and mass moment of inertia.

Credit Hours - 3

The course will cover: Introduction to Engineering Graphics; Sketch Tools (lines, arcs, circle, rectangle, fillet, chamfer,  sketch relations, smart dimension, pattern, mirror, offset entity, trim, etc.); Parts Modeling Techniques (extrusion, revolve, sweep, loft, shell, hole wizard, pattern, rib, mirror, fillet, chamfer, etc.); Detailed Part Drawing (Projection theory and types: perspective, parallel, orthogonal, axonometric, isometric, dimetric, trimetric, Multiview, line types and conventions, types of projection, sheet format: title block and border line, scale, section view, detailed view, dimensioning and tolerancing: size and geometry tolerancing (limit, unilateral, bilateral, general tolerance, etc.); Assembly Modeling (standard mating and exploded views); Detailed Assembly Drawing (balloons, BOM, exploded state, reference dimensioning).