Syllabus

Course: BAE 3213 Machinery for Production and Processing

Date: Spring 2000

Instructor: Drs. Bowser, Solie, Stone, Huhnke

Prerequisite(s): BIOEN 1012, ENGSC 2122

Text: Engineering Principles of Agricultural Machines, Srivastava, Goering, and Rohrbach

 

Topics

Date

Lecturer

 

 

 

 

1

[1] M. L. King Holiday

Jan 17

 

2

LAB1 – Electric Motors

Jan 18

Bowser

3

[2] Electric Motors

Jan 19

Bowser

 

 

 

 

4

[3] Internal Combustion Engines

Jan 24

Solie

5

LAB 2 – Diesel Engine Performance

Jan 25

Solie

6

[4] Internal Combustion Engines

Jan 26

Solie

 

 

 

 

7

[5] Power Transmission Components

Jan 31

Solie

8

LAB 2- Diesel Engine Performance

Feb 1

Solie

9

[6] Power Transmission Components

Feb 2

Solie

 

 

 

 

10

[7] Power Transmission Components

Feb 7

Solie

11

LAB 3- Power Transmission Lab

Feb 8

Solie

12

[8] Fluid Power

Feb 9

Solie

 

 

 

 

13

[9] Fluid Power

Feb 14

Solie

14

LAB 4- Fluid Power Lab

Feb 15

Solie

15

[10] Traction and Soil Compaction

Feb 16

Solie

 

 

 

 

16

[11] Traction and Soil Compaction

Feb 21

Solie

17

LAB 4- Measuring Soil Properties Including Cone Index

Feb 22

Solie

18

[12] Soil Tillage

Feb 23

Solie

 

 

 

 

19

[12] Soil Tillage

Feb 28

Solie

20

Lab 5 Measuring Implement Draft

Feb 29

Solie

21

[14] Soil Tillage

Mar 1

Solie

 

 

 

 

22

[15] Crop Planting

Mar 6

Solie

23

LAB 5- Crop Planting, Seed Singulation and Metering

Mar 7

Solie

24

[16] Examination

Mar 8

 

 

 

 

 

25

[17] Pesticide and Fertilizer Application

Mar 20

Solie

26

LAB 6- Draft Measurement

Mar 21

Solie

27

[18] Pesticide and Fertilizer Application

Mar 22

Stone

 

 

Topics

Date

Lecturer

 

 

 

 

28

[19] Pesticide and Fertilizer Application

Mar 27

Stone

29

Lab 7

Mar 28

Stone

30

[20] Pesticide and Fertilizer Application

Mar 29

Stone

 

 

 

 

31

[21] Sensor Based Precision Agriculture

Apr 3

Stone

32

Lab 8

Apr 4

Stone

33

[22] Sensor Based Precision Agriculture

Apr 5

Stone

 

 

 

 

34

[23] Sensor Based Precision Agriculture

Apr 10

Stone

35

Lab 9

Apr 11

Stone

36

[24] Examination

Apr 12

 

 

 

 

 

37

[25] Machinery Management

Apr 17

Huhnke

38

Lab 10

Apr 18

Huhnke

39

[26] Machinery Management

Apr 19

Huhnke

 

 

 

 

40

[27] Machinery Management

Apr 24

Huhnke

41

Lab 11

Apr 25

Huhnke

42

[28] Wrap up of the course and review for the final examination

Apr 26

All Faculty

 

 

 

 

43

Final Examination – Tuesday, May 2, 2000 at 9:30 am

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Course Grading

Two 1-hour examinations will be given which will account for 40 percent of the course grade. Selected homework problems and unannounced quizzes (15 %), laboratory reports (35%), and the final exam will contribute 20 percent of the grade. Homework problems will be chosen in apparently random fashion for contribution to your grade. Selected work will be announced and accepted only within the first 5 minutes of class on the due date unless advised otherwise. Late homework (that offered after the "open period") will be graded then depreciated by 10 percent of the earned grade for each day it is late (one late-day minimum). Submit all homework for grading on engineering paper or 8.5" x 11"white bond unless advised otherwise. Homework will require creative writing, as well as problem solving, therefore grammar, spelling and sentence structure will be given substantial credit in most instances. Students’ final grades in this course will be determined by their performance in all assigned tasks and will be scaled as necessary.

Assignments

Problems, designs, and any other written work turned in for grading will be evaluated based on the presence and the quality of the following components, others as indicated on specific assignments:

Organization, Clarity, Spelling and Grammar, Content, Accuracy, and References used as sources of information.

Course Prerequisite

ENGSC 2122 - ELEMENTARY DYNAMICS

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:

1. Identify a broad range of agricultural implements and describe their function and operational requirements,

2. Relate functional problems of agricultural machines and biological properties of soil and plant materials,

3. Provide creative and innovative solutions to major agricultural machinery problems, and

4. Solve problems of selection and management of agricultural machinery.