Engineering Applications (Engineering II) BSC205

IMPROVE YOUR ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE
This course provides an achievable first step towards a career and future you want...an opportunity to test the water without over commiting.
Advance your knowledge in Engineering and take steps to secure a workplace in a field you like.

Course Aim     

To apply appropriate, and innovative engineering solutions, to improve efficiency and productivity in agriculture and horticulture.

Pre-requisites

A basic understanding of Engineering function is assumed, equivalent to Engineering I.

CONTENTS

There are nine lessons as follows:

1. Surveying

2. Earthworks

3. Water management

4. Environmental control

5. Chemical applications

6. Fencing

7. Mechanisation

8. Engineering efficiency

9. Developing engineering solutions

Aims

• Explain surveying, including basic principles and techniques, appropriate for horticulture and agriculture
• Determine earthworks required for an agricultural or horticultural site
• Determine appropriate water management for an horticultural/agricultural site.
• Determine technological solutions for environmental control problems, in rural or horticultural situations.
• Explain the operation of equipment commonly used to apply pesticides and other chemicals in both horticultural and agricultural workplaces.
• Determine appropriate fencing to use for different purposes; including security and restricting the movement of animals, pests or traffic, in agricultural and horticultural situations.
• Explain the operation of machinery commonly used to mechanise manual tasks
• carried out in horticultural and agricultural workplaces.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of engineering applications in agricultural and horticultural workplaces.
• Determine procedures for improving work tasks in agricultural and horticultural situations.