Rural Infrastructural Engineering

After taking this course, students should be able to: 1. Identify the various engineering infrastructures for a rural community; 2. Plan and design rural infrastructures such as roads, earth dams, electricity projects and irrigation projects; and 3. Develop and implement a rural water scheme.

Concept of integrated rural development (planning and implementation). Overview of the problems of rural infrastructures. Review of agricultural construction survey. Rural road network. Rural road design, construction and maintenance; erosion of earth roads; minor road crossing. Small scale irrigation; rural electricity; rural water supplies; rural sanitation. Practical contents: A levelling survey exercise for road construction. Excursion: Visit to an earth dam site and an irrigation project. 400 level GET 402 ENGINEERING Project I (2 Units: C; PH 90) Learning Outcomes At the end of this course, the students should be able to: 1. Complete the design phase of a complex engineering problem sourced from industry or community during the SIWES III programme. 2. Demonstrate the connection between engineering product-making and the theoretical courses they have learned following the applicable industry best practices. Course Contents In the second semester of the 400-level students, preferably in groups, work from the university on the identified industry or organization to tackle industry complex engineering problems. Theoretical issues may be provided by the department faculty or industry experts. During the vacation, students will now work full time with the organisation/industry on the project as part of the SIWES III. The students can also go beyond the department and engage in multidisciplinary undertakings. Literature survey, review of existing systems etc. must be achieved to a satisfactory extent. GET 404 Engineering Valuation and Appraisal (2 Units: C; LH 30) Learning Outcomes At the end of this course, the students should be able to: 1. Identify at least three (3) objectives of engineering valuation work, valuer's primary duty and responsibility and valuation terminologies. 2. Describe at least four (4) Valuer's obligation to his or her client, to other valuers, and to the society. 3. Demonstrate with example the engineering valuation methods, valuation standards, and practices. 4. Prepare engineering valuation and appraisal reports and review 5. Discuss expert witnessing and ethics in valuation. 6. Determine price, cost, value, depreciation and obsolescence in real property, personal property, personal property, machinery and equipment, oil, gas, mines, and quarries valuation. Course Content Objectives of valuation work/ valuer's primary duty and responsibility. Valuer's obligation to his or her client, to other valuers, and to the society. Valuation methods and practices. Valuation reports. Expert witnessing. Ethics in valuation. Valuation standards. Price, cost and value. Depreciation and obsolescence. Valuation terminology. Real asset valuation; personal asset valuation. Machinery and equipment valuation. Oil and gas facilities valuation. Mines and quarries valuation. Appraisal reporting and review. ABE 401: Instrumentation and Measurement in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (2 Units C: LH 15; PH 45) Learning Outcomes This course will help students to: 1. identify the appropriate instruments for measuring parametres relevant to agricultural activities; 2. manage the acquisition, transmission, recording, analysing and computing of data; and 3. apply these instruments, particularly for research in agricultural and biosystems engineering. Course Contents Motion, force, torque and shaft power, pressure and sound flux; humidity measurement; application of primary sensing element; data manipulation, computing and compensating devices; data transmission and recording.