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Introduction to Telecommunication; relationship with other fields of Engineering. Taxonomies of telecom systems; signal waveforms and information, audio, data, video; conversion of sound to electrical signals; amplitude, frequency, phase, wave-shape, the relationship between velocity (v), frequency (f) and wavelength (λ). Analog and digital signals, time and frequency domain representations of signals; transmission of signals through various media; copper pairs, coaxial, waveguides, radio, optical fibres and satellite. Introduction to networks services and their impact on society, LANs, MANs, and WANs. Data networks; the internet, global navigation. Electromagnetic spectrum and frequency allocation for various services; basic principles of switching; space and time division switching networks; store-and-forward switching; examples of switching systems. 200 Level

Introduction: Definition and scope of water resources engineering. Use of water for irrigation, water supply and wastewater engineering, navigation, hydropower generation, environmental sanitation and industrial use. Introduction to surface water hydrology and groundwater hydraulics, control structures such as dams, reservoirs, e.t.c. Introduction to pollution control and abatement. Introduction to field measurement and computation in water resources engineering. Career opportunities in water resources engineering. 200 Level

Wood as a forest resource in Nigeria and at the world level. The need for wood products in our society. Wood Products Engineering as a means to satisfy need. Contributions of Wood Products Engineering to national economy and industrial development. Scientific research in the wood industry. Overview of different wood industries in Nigeria. Available opportunities to graduates of Wood Products Engineering. 200 Level

Introduction: Role of welding, brazing and soldering in manufacturing processes. Welding: Definition, principle, classification and scope. Types of welding processes – gas, arc, resistance, flash, friction and electro-welding, among others. Brief treatment of new processes such as explosive welding, plasma welding and electro-beam welding. Weld rods and fluxes protective atmosphere, weld defect and weldability of metals and alloys. The effect of welding processes and mechanical properties of weldments. Heat Affected Zone (HAZ). Heat treatment of welds, design of welded joint; brazing: scope and limitations, types, processes, brazing of commercially important ferrous and non-ferrous metals and alloys; soldering: processes, soldering alloys and application of soldering techniques.

Preparation and quality evaluation of smoked fish, smoked meat, cured meat, meat sausages, salted fish, salted and dried fish, solar dried fish, etc. Processing of milk into dairy products, for example, ice cream, yoghurt, cheese, butter, etc. Evaluation of shell egg quality including external appearance (size, shape, shell colour, shell texture, shell cleanliness, etc), Candling appearance, (air cell characteristics, shell characteristics, internal quality characteristics) and opened egg quality (Haugh unit, yolk index, percentage of thick and thin albumen, etc.). Shell egg pasteurization. Processing of egg products including powdered egg products (whole egg, egg yolk, egg white, etc.), Frozen liquid egg products (whole egg, egg yolk, egg white.). Mayonnaise and salad cream production. Quality tests in milk and milk products. Milk products manufacture (market milk, ice cream, yoghurt and other fermented milk products, powdered milk products (full fat milk, non-fat milk.), butter, cheese, etc. Preparation and processing of fruit and vegetable products (fruit juices, squashes, fruit bar, jams, jellies, tomato ketchup, tomato puree, dried vegetables.). Preparation of canned and bottled fruits and vegetables spiced and fermented vegetables.

Definitions. Measurement of distances. Ise of minor instruments. Random errors. Chain surveying. Bearing of lines. Levelling. Topographic surveys. Traversing. Theodolite traversing. Plane table surveying. Triangulation. Land shaping and earthwork. Map reading. Photogrammetry. Aerial photography. Geographical Information System.

Production systems: rearing, fattening and milk production systems. Rearing systems: objectives; nomadic, transhumant, sedentary, scavenging and industrial (ranching) – organisation, personnel and infrastructures. Design, construction and equipment for housing for pigs, sheep, goats, domestic fowls, cattle and dairy cattle. Fattening production systems: Grass and intensive fattening. Milk production systems: factors limiting tropical milk production; milking bail; milking parlour: selection, design and types. Environmental requirements for animals. Environmental impact on animal growth and reproduction on their general physiology. Assessment of thermal comfort. Parametres affecting thermal comfort of animals. ASHRAE comfort charts. Ventilation systems: natural and automated. Aerodynamics of animal buildings. Building design methodology. Integrating animals with their environment through building designs. Disease control: Causes, factors favouring transmission. Design of buildings to control diseases. Animal waste management: Characteristics of animal wastes. Objectives of waste treatment; aerobic and anaerobic treatment of waste; manure disposal equipment. Excursion: Visit to a functional biogas plant.

Introduction to search methods in Artificial Intelligence problems. Self-organizing systems. Information theory, rational decision making and pattern recognition. Parametric and nonparametric training for pattern classifiers. Problem solving. Minimax and alpha-beta algorithm. Heuristic approaches to state-space search problems. Prerequisite: SSG 311

Introduction to machine learning; ; introduction to R or Python for machine learning: statistics for analytics: descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, estimation and hypothesis testing, ANOVA; machine learning: unsupervised learning – clustering, supervised learning – classification, decision trees, random forest, and model performance measures.

Elementary introduction to types and organization of engineering workshops covering jobbing, batch, mass production. Engineering materials: Their uses and properties. Safety in workshops and general principles of working. Bench work and fitting: Hand tools, instruments. Carpentry: Hand tools. Materials. types of joint. processing of timber. Blacksmithing, and tools and working principles. Joints and fastenings: threaded fasteners. riveting, welding, brazing, and soldering. Measurement and marking out for uniformity. circularity, concentricity, etc. Standard measuring tools used in the workshop. Simple metal cutting applied to hand tools. Single point tool geometry. Cutting fluid General principles of working of standard metal cutting machine tools. Work and tool movement, speed and feed range. Centre lathe operations: Straight/taper turning. Thread cutting. Parts of lathes accessories and attachments used on centre lathe. Drilling machine, drill bits and uses.