SSC2222: Agricultural Engineering

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Dear students welcome to the module of  SSC2222: Agricultural Engineering

Module aim

The module aim to produce competent graduates that are able to integrate agricultural engineering components in farming systems, understand farmers’ circumstances and provide technical solutions compatible to the available resources. The module will provide an understanding of Farm machinery and Power, Rural Construction and Soil and Water Conservation.

The module comprised with three Learning Unit:

Unit 1: Farm Machinery and Power

Unit 2: Rural Construction

Unit 3: Soil and Water Conservations.

 Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of this module students will be able to:

• Demonstrate Skills and Knowledge in Farm Mechanization and Tillage Implement
• Understanding of Sowing and Planting equipment
• Apply power principles  in Farm activities
• Understanding of rural building, Planning of farm structures
• Understanding of Construction materials and Elements of Construction
• Understand important soil properties that influences soil loss and management strategies.
• Gain knowledge of the indicators of water quality and conservation strategies 
• Gain knowledge of the methodology of assessing soil   and water quality 
• understand  importance of wastes management for soil and water conservation

Activities

• Lectures will be delivered online with discussions aimed at stimulating students to read themselves and encourage them to participate in the teaching and learning process.
• Students working as a team to solve complicated, ill-structured problems rooted in Farm machinery and Power, Rural Construction and Soil and Water conservation
• Brainstorming (Oral presentation by lectures, Preparation of good teaching material, organizing enough continuous assessment tests, Group discussions, Presentations in class, Field visits and Assignments on current research conducted in field of agricultural engineering).
• The lecturer will help, lead and guide discussions and summarize students’ ideas and evaluate them. The pass mark will be 50%
• The lecturer should emphasize on key concepts in order to be able to cover all the learning outcomes.

Assessment Strategy

• Students’ skills and competence levels will be evaluated though summative and formative assessment.
• Assessment will emphases on advancement of skills and competence rather than simply achieving a minimum standard and  will provides the flexibility for equitable students with different initial skills and competency, which proves particularly relevant to students who may have considerable professional experience and advanced skills and competence in some areas.
• By tracking progress, students will develop an individual portfolio of achievements that can be continued throughout their study programmes and professional lives.

• resources

  Mal, B.C. (1995). Introduction to Soil and Water Conservation Engineering, Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi.

  Murty, V.V.N. and Jha, Madan K. (2011). Land and Water Management Engineering, Kalyani Publishers, India.

  Sharda, V.N., Juyal, G.P., Prakash, C. and Joshi, B.P. (2007).  Soil And Water Conservation Engineering (Training Manual-volume II), CSWCRTI, Dehradun, India.

  Subramanya, K. (2010). Engineering Hydrology, 3^rd ed. Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, India.

Modules Facilitators

1. NSANZIMANA Oreste, 0788664238
2. Mr. Gasana Gasabato Quenan, +250783883303, email: ggq2211@gmail.com