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Laboratory section are based on materials covered in PEE 306 which includes coring and core analysis, determination of petrophysical properties, such as porosity, permeability, water saturation, Gas Formation Volume Factor etc.

Introduction to Rock Mechanics – Definition of terms and importance of rock mechanics. Field applications in mining, civil and petroleum engineering. Classification and Index properties of rocks – geological classification of rocks (crystalline rocks and organic rocks); porosity density; permeability; strength: Slaking and Durability; sonic velocity as an index to degree of fissuring; classification of rock masses for engineering purposes. Rock strength and failure; criteria modes of failure of rocks common laboratory strength tests (uniaxial, triaxial, Brazilian, flexural tests); stress-strain behaviour in compression; effect of confining pressure; the meaning of rock strength; application of the complete stress-strain curve. The Mohr Coulomb failure criterion. The effect of water. The influence of the principal stress ration on failure; empirical criteria of failure; Coulom-Navier criterion of failure of rocks; Griffith brittle failure criterion. Elastic properties. Applications of rock mechanics in engineering or underground openings. Rock slope stability. Support systems design and selection – caving and subsidence. Observation of mass deformations – extensometers and strain transducers. Case studies.

Procedures for starting, running and stopping marine engines. Watch keeping, logging, fault diagnosis and maintenance of main and auxiliary engines. Overhauling, dismantling and checking of components for wear cracks and damage. Inspecting and overhauling of turbochargers, transmission systems, bearings, seals and filters. Testing of injectors, fuel pumps and valves. Repair/replacement of parts and assembly. Different maintenance methods and their significance. Checking and adjustment of clearances, alignments, fittings and bolts. General safety guidelines and machinery grinding-in procedure.

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.

Wood log yard. Grading or sorting of wood. Preservation of logs. Determination of sawing patterns. Sawing of wood. Resawing. Sorting, grading and storage of boards. Production measurements in mills. Mill efficiency. Sawing equipment in the sawmill.

; 2. make presentations on critical metallurgical topics; 3. interact freely with senior engineers in metallurgical positions and indeed the general public on cognate issues; and 4. explain the primary concepts in metallurgical engineering. Course Contents Restricted special topics to be covered include the following: Heat Treatment of Metals: Emphasis on iron and steel. Definition of heat treatment, various types of heat treatments and applications of the various heat treatment in the Metallurgical Industry. Sustainable Mineral Resources Development: Seeing the big picture: Mineral exploration, mining engineering, mineral processing technology, and extractive metallurgical engineering as a relay race. The ‘what’, the ‘why’, the ‘how’, the ‘who’, the ‘when’, the ‘where’, and the ‘which’ of the four programmes and allied fields. Leadership Skills: Vision, mission, and strategy in leadership. Definition of Leadership: The fact that leadership can be caught (natural attributes) and taught (leadership training). What it means to be transformational leaders; forms of leadership. Academic leadership, entrepreneurial leadership, professional leadership and political leadership. Visionary and strategic leadership. Machine Design and Fabrication Mineral Processing Equipment: List of equipment used for gravity separation, flotation of minerals such as shaking table, air float, magnetic separator, electrostatic separator, flotation cell, and design principle of selected machines. Machine/Equipment Design and Fabrication (based on need-driveness): Equipment used design and fabrication of equipment used in ferrous and non-ferrous extractive metallurgy. Different type of furnaces: Furnace Design and fabrication. Geometallurgy: Interface between geosciences and metallurgy, emerging, need-driven and multidisciplinary scientific field. Geostatistic: Critical tool for mine design among other purposes towards sustainable mineral resources development. Rare Earth Elements: Definition, extraction process route for this rare and expensive metals for specialised industrial applications.

Restricted special topics to be covered include the following: (i) Sustainable Mineral Resources Development: Seeing the big picture: Mineral Exploration, Mining Engineering, Mineral Processing Technology, and Extractive Metallurgical Engineering as a relay race. The ‘what’, the ‘why’, the ‘how’, the ‘who’, the ‘when’, the ‘where’, and the ‘which’ of the four programmes and allied fields. (ii) Leadership Skills: Vision, mission, and strategy in leadership. Definition of Leadership: The fact that leadership can be caught (natural attributes) and taught (leadership training). What it means to be transformational leaders; forms of leadership. Academic leadership, entrepreneurial leadership, professional leadership and political leadership. Visionary and strategic leadership. (iii) Machine Design and Fabrication of Mineral Processing Equipment: List of equipment used for gravity separation, flotation of minerals such as shaking table, air float, magnetic separator, electrostatic separator, flotation cell, and design principle of selected machines. (iv) Machine/Equipment Design and Fabrication (based on need-driveness): Equipment used design and fabrication of equipment used in ferrous and non-ferrous extractive metallurgy. Different type of furnaces: Furnace design and fabrication. (v) Geometallurgy: Interface between geosciences and metallurgy, emerging, need-driven and multidisciplinary scientific field. (vi) Geo-statistic: Critical tool for mine design among other purposes towards sustainable mineral resources development. (vii) Rare Earth Elements: Definition, extraction process route for this rare and expensive metals for specialised industrial applications (viii) Bitumen Processing in Nigeria: The what, the why, the how, the where, the when, the which the who and for whom of bitumen processing (ix) Cement Production in Nigeria: The what, the why, the how, the where, the when, the which the who and for whom of cement production. (x) Gold: occurrence geology, mineralogy, characterization, process design and production in Nigeria. (xi) Platinum Group of Metals: geology, mineralogy, characterization, process design and production.

This course provides an introduction to sensors and actuators in mechatronics systems. The topics include sensing principles for measuring motion, force, torque, pressure, flow, and temperature using analogue and digital transducers; actuating principles for continuous drive actuators and stepper motors; power transmission systems; and methods for signal collection, conditioning and analysis. Various components will be experimentally tested and analysed. Others are basics of Energy Transformation: Transducers, Sensors and Actuators. Understanding of Sensor Interfacing with Microprocessor to build electronic system Week Static and Dynamic Characteristic Parameters for Sensors and Actuators, Calibration of Sensor-based electronics systems. Sensor performance criteria and selection, including: (a) Thermocouples (b) Resistive sensors (c) Inductive sensors (d) Capacitive sensors (e) Piezoelectric sensors (f) Encoders and tachometers. Actuator performance criteria and selection, including: (a) Fluidic actuators (b) Solenoids and voice coil motors (c) Stepper motors (d) DC motors (e) Piezoelectric actuators (f) Shape memory alloy actuators (g) MEMS sensors and actuators. Merits of Fluid power & its utility for increasing productivity through Low-Cost Automation, Transmission of Fluid Power through various types of Cylinders), Symbolic representation of Pneumatic elements (CETOP), Compressors and Air supply system including airline installations, Signalling & control system. Introduction to Industrial Hydraulics, Hydraulics Power System elements and standard symbolic Representation (CETOP symbols). Pneumatic & hydraulic control elements (control valves & hydraulic pumps, accessories), Basic circuits for controlling single & double-acting cylinder, Basic circuits, Advantages of Hydro- Pneumatics and its applications, Hydraulics system and their Classification. Hydraulics circuits Hydraulic Motors, Hydraulic Fluids and effective contamination control. Advanced pneumatic circuits for controlling multi-cylinders (operable & inoperable circuits), Electro pneumatics with relay logic, Pneumatics system with PID controls, Application of fluidics a non-moving part logic.

Definition. Sense organs and their physiological and psychological foundations of sensory evaluation. Sensory evaluation laboratory (design – reception and briefing room, kitchen and food preparation area, testing area, utensils and other pieces of equipment, lightening and temperature control, testing setup, testing schedule). Selection and handling of panel members (selection and training of panel, instructing the panel, etc.). Handling of samples (information on sample, quantity of sample, number of samples, coding, order of presentation, sample dilution, rinsing, etc.). Categories of sensory evaluation methods (single expert or master taster, round table method of testing, panel of judges, single stimulus). Methods of Sensory Evaluation – Discrimination or difference tests (paired comparison, Duo-trio, triangular, multiple comparison tests, etc.); Descriptive tests (ranking, scoring, profile testing, ratio scaling, etc.); Acceptance/preference tests (use of Hedonic scale and other scales). Design of experiments and choosing methods of analyzing sensory evaluation data. Factors influencing sensory measurements. The role of sensory evaluation in product quality assurance. Application of sensory evaluation to routine maintenance, shelf-life determination and reference standard for product quality. In-plant sensory evaluation procedures. Computerized sensory evaluation procedure.

Theories, principles/mechanisms of operation, calculations with necessary examples and design features of machineries which underpin the following separation processes: Preliminary and preparative operations including: Cleaning. Sorting. Grading. Peeling. De- skinning. Cutting. Mechanical/physical separations: sedimentation. Centrifugation. Filtration. Membrane separations (ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis). Screening, Mechanical expression. Contact Equilibrium Processes: Determination of ideal stages. Gas absorption. Distillation. Stripping, Extraction/leaching.