Agricultural Engineering Dept.

AGE 311
Basic Agricultural Engineering & Field Trip
AGE 311 | AGE | 1st Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

Introduction to Agricultural Engineering is designed primarily to the students in Agricultural Engineering profession and also expose to the place and roles of the profession in the society. The course places emphasis on the practical skills required in the mechanised agriculture.

AGE 323
Mechanics of Machines
AGE 323 | AGE | 1st Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

Theory of machines is prerequisite to machine design primarily for students in Agricultural & Environmental Engineering. The course synopsis includes; Review of general dynamics: Velocity, acceleration, Newton’s laws of motion, energy and its conservation. Types and functions of mechanism. Types and application of motion. Motion transmission in belt drives, gear drives and chain drive. Analysis of cams and followers, gear drives, chain drives and belt drives for motion and power transmission. Kinetics and balancing of rotating masses and elements of vibratory system. Simple harmonic motion and degrees of freedom. Vehicular mechanics: brake and clutch systems.

AGE301
Engineering Statistics
AGE301 | AGE | 1st Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

This course is meant to expose students in the School of Engineering and Engineering Technology to the principles of engineering statistics. Topics to be covered include: Descriptive statistics: mean, median, mode, charts and frequency distribution curve. Probability distribution; normal distribution, binomial distribution in relation to engineering problems. Linear and multiple regressions, correlations, Analysis of Variance and degree of confidence. Interpretation of statistical results and interference. Statistical models, computer applications in statistics to engineering problems.

AGE315
Introduction to Environmental Engineering
AGE315 | AGE | 1st Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

The role of the environmental engineer is to protect public health and safety from the adverse effects of pollution and to ensure that natures ecosystems are not adversely affected as they are used to benefit man. This course introduces students to environmental problems and their resolution including water and wastewater treatment, air pollution and control, and solid and hazardous waste management. A significant portion of the course is devoted to a review of general and physical chemistry. It involves the introduction to environmental engineering problems; water and wastewater treatment, air pollution, noise, solid and hazardous wastes. A better understanding of this course will involve a practical session which will assist in illustrating several analytical techniques commonly used in the analysis of environmental samples, and demonstrates the mechanisms involved in some of the treatment processes.

AGY 209
Geology for Engineers I
AGY 209 | AGE | 1st Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

The focus is to expose the civil engineering students to basic and applied geological principles for solving earthwork problems often encountered while executing civil engineering projects. Topics to be covered include: Summary of the structure of the planet earth. Minerals and rocks; the common rock-forming minerals- origin, distribution, identification and classification. External earth processes: weathering; principles, processes and agents. Erosion and evolution of landforms. Sedimentation; principles and processes. Sedimentary rocks. Basic principles of stratigraphy; the geologic time scale; the importance of fossils. Internal earth processes; igneous processes - plutonic & volcanic; metamorphic processes, metamorphism types; deformation processes, faults and folds. Fundamentals of plate tectonics; earthquakes. Distribution of rocks, minerals and principal geologic features (structures) in Nigeria.

APH 201
Introduction to Animal Production and Health
APH 201 | AGE | 1st Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

Introduction to farm animals, their breeds and brief history of their origin. Modern production, management and health practices especially with respect to cattle, small ruminants (sheep and goats), swine, poultry and rabbits. Constraints to commercial production and concept of health maintenance in farm animals.

MME 311
Engineering Metallurgy
MME 311 | AGE | 1st Semester |

Course Synopsis

Introduction to Metallurgy;  Steelmaking processes;  Brief description of each process and their technology; Raw materials requirement and steelmaking practices; Types of fuels and fluxes used in each process routes;  The physical chemistry of iron making in each process and their respective controls; Thermodynamics and kinetics of steelmaking viz refining of hot metal steelmaking processes;  Secondary steelmaking processes and manufacture of alloy steel principles; Hardening of metals;  Deformation and Annealing of metals;  Corrosion and Oxidation Phenomena;  Alloy Steels;  Stainless, creep and Heat resisting steels;  Cast Irons.

MTS 315
Engineering Mathematics
MTS 315 | AGE | 1st Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

This course is the first course in Mathematical sciences designed for students in School of Engineering only. The focus of the course is to teach students an application of mathematics in the real life problems in the area of Engineering.Topics to be covered include first order ordinary differential equations ,Existence and uniqueness theorem, second order ordinary differential equations, linear dependence, Wronskian, reduction of undetermined coefficient, variation of parameters, general theory of nth order linear equation, Series solution about ordinary and regular points, special functions, Bessel , Lengendre and Hypergeometric. Laplace transform and application to initial value problems.

AGE 312
Basic Hydraulics
AGE 312 | AGE | 2nd Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

The course is designed to give students an understanding of the behaviour of liquids in both states of rest and motion, building on the knowledge already attained in 200 Level Fluid Mechanics. The extent of the course starts from understanding the effect of pressure on an object, whether totally submerged or partially submerged in a body of liquid, calculations of fundamental quantities in Hydraulics, relationship between viscosity, Reynold’s number and types of flow. Also included in the course are pipe network analysis, arrangement of pipes in a distribution network, effect of roughness in pipes and coefficients and charts used in pipe design. Hydraulic machines i.e. Pumps and turbines are also contained - Types of pumps and their components, pump selection. The three dominant basic types of turbines - radial flow, axial flow and the Pelton are discussed. Open channel flow-possible types of flow, design of open channels, and application of Manning’s and Chezy’s equations. Critical depth. Weirs – their use, type and design.

AGE 314
Basic Hydrology
AGE 314 | AGE | 2nd Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

AGE 314- Basic Hydrology is the course that introduces the students to the significant of Hydrology in relation to our environment. Also, its occurrences, distribution and circulation through the unending hydrologic cycle of precipitation, consequent runoff, streamflow, infiltration, storage and eventual evaporation and reprecipitation will be studied. However, it will assist the students in other courses in the area of soil and water Engineering option of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering. The Course will impact knowledge in river stage measurement and ground water study on students. In addition to the above, other topics to be covered include topics of precipitation and measurement of rainfall, Evapotranspiration and measurement of evapotranspiration; factor affecting run-off and estimating of run-off rate.

AGE 328
Machine Drawing and Design
AGE 328 | AGE | 2nd Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

This course is an introductory first course in Machine Design primarily for students in Agricultural & Environmental Engineering. The course synopsis include; Machine Drawing, Machine design concepts, processes and procedures, Identification of basic machine components. Design Techniques including conceptual drawings , computer aided designs, orthographic , isometric and component drawings of machines and machine components. Design of machine elements such as shafts, belt drives

AGE 336
Basic Soil Mechanics
AGE 336 | AGE | 2nd Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

Soil mechanics is a distinct and separate branch of engineering mechanics, designed primarily for students in Agricultural Engineering and related disciplines such as Civil Engineering. Its development has also been stimulated, of course, by the wide range of applications of soil engineering in agricultural and civil engineering, as all structures require a sound foundation and should transfer its loads to the soil. The course placed much more importance on the practical skills that may be required in the conservation of soil for sustainable food production.

AGE304
Theory of Farm Structures
AGE304 | AGE | 2nd Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

Theory of Farm structure is an important course in Engineering designed primarily for students in Agricultural Engineering and related disciplines such as Civil Engineering. The course is structured to prepare and expose the students to different kinds of structures on the farm. Such structures includes buildings for animal production, buildings for plant production, processing buildings, equipment shed, farm machinery workshops and crop storage structures. Fundamentals of design process, materials selection, building regulations and code of practice. Design Philosophy, elastic design, limit state design and design of structural elements. Other important aspects of the course include; analysis of forces in structural members with special reference to pin jointed truss, method of joints, unstable structures and redundant members. The course also covers tensile or cable structures. Theory of farm structure is meant to provide the training relevant to fundamentals of structural analysis, materials and design. Although these topics are often treated as separate subjects but it is better to introduce all three topics in an integrated fashion and this enables the student to tackle realistic design problems in the shortest possible time and because he or she can see the relevance of the theory, it produces a good motivation.

CSP 202
Basic Soil Science
CSP 202 | AGE | 2nd Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

This course is an introductory course in soil science designed primarily for all 200 level students in the Department of Crop, Soil and Pest Management, Agric Resource and Economics, Agric Extension and Communication, Animal Production and Health, Ecotourism and Wildlife Management, fisheries and Aquaculture Technology, Forestry Technology, and Agric Engineering Departments. However, it also meets the need of students in other fields, as a course that provides basic knowledge of soil science. Basic Soil Science generally deals with how soil is formed from primary rocks and minerals, the transformation factors and processes that give rise to different soils on the earth surface, the dynamic chemical entity and several external factors that react together to make the soil an indispensible national resource to plants, animals and humans. As a practical course, the focus is to impart useful skills on the students in order to enhance their knowledge in soil science, and the basic use of soil to different field, soil management principles, and soil compositions with the aim of preparing them for other specialised applications to be encountered at higher levels. Topics to be covered include

MTS 316
Engineering Mathematics II
MTS 316 | AGE | 2nd Semester |  Download Courseware PDF

Course Synopsis

This course is the second course for all engineering students designed for 300 level and allied disciplines to introduce them to some mathematical methods to solve engineering problems whose resulting models are differential equations. 2 However, this course also meets the need of students in other fields of physics, earth sciences, e.t.c, as a course that provides methods of solution to solve integral calculus. Topics to be covered include, Gamma and beta functions; Stirling’s formula. Strum-Liouville’s equations. Examples of Sturm-Liouville equations - Lengendre polynomials and Bessel functions. Orthogonal polynomial and functions. Fourier series and integrals: Fourier transforms. Partial Differential Equations (PDE): general and particular solutions, linear equations with constant coefficients; first and second order equations, solutions of the heat, wave and laplace equations by method of separation of variables; eigenfunction expansions; fourier transformation.