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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. Principles of machine performance, capacity, machinery components, and operation. Study of tractors, trucks, utility vehicles, and combines. Equipment topics include chemical application, tillage tools, planters and seeders, hay and forage harvesters, electronic monitors and controllers. Computer-based analysis of equipment sizing and systems selection. Typically offered Fall. 0.000 OR 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Laboratory, Lecture College of Agriculture College Ag & Biological Engineering Department Course Attributes: Lower Division
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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. Principles of materials handling and processing. Physical properties and characteristics of food, fiber, and feed materials as related to harvesting, handling, processing, and storage. Processing of agricultural materials including drying, preservation, size reduction (e.g. grinding, crushing, shredding), mixing and blending, refrigeration, extrusion, and pelleting. Conveying and transport systems with consideration of their effects on damage and quality. The course elements are tied together by a treatment of scheduling and coordination of biologically based systems, which involve production, handling, quality control, and processing. Typically offered Spring. 0.000 OR 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Laboratory, Lecture College of Agriculture College Ag & Biological Engineering Department Course Attributes: Lower Division
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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. A study of the important issues and economic decisions about world-wide resource use for food and fiber production as influenced by geography, climate, history, social institutions, national self-interest, and the environment. Typically offered Fall. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture College of Agriculture College Ag & Biological Engineering Department Course Attributes: Credit By Exam, Lower Division
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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. Symbol library creation and manipulation, computer-aided drawing (CAD) data-base extraction for report generation, introduction to Lisp programming and drawing automation, three-dimensional wire frame modeling, surface rendering, and introduction to solid modeling. Assignments will include use of commercially available CAD packages. Typically offered Fall. 0.000 OR 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Laboratory, Lecture College of Agriculture College Ag & Biological Engineering Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. Technology and applications of electronics for precision agriculture. Characteristics of personal computer hardware, electronic sensors, monitors, machine controllers, environmental monitors, and global positioning systems. Production management information systems; processing and marketing information systems; and yield mapping, geographic information system data handling, and software options. Typically offered Fall. 0.000 OR 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Laboratory, Lecture College of Agriculture College Ag & Biological Engineering Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. Principles of facility (system) planning and management involving buildings, equipment, and materials handling and flow. Student teams select a case firm (problem) with instructor approval. Principles learned week by week are applied to the development of an overall plan for the complex, over the course of the semester. Case examples can include firms handling supplies, seeds, grains, feeds, chemicals, wastes, and farm produce, as well as farming operations producing grain, forage, and/or livestock products. Students will learn to use AutoCAD to develop drawings, without prior computer drafting experience. Typically offered Spring. 0.000 OR 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Laboratory, Lecture College of Agriculture College Ag & Biological Engineering Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. Analysis of environmental systems with special emphasis on non-urban and agribusiness needs. Technological and sociological solutions to environmental problems. Computer-based tools are used to analyze global environmental issues, chemical use and management, waste disposal and management, water and air quality, soil and water conservation, sustainable agriculture, regulatory and policy issues. Typically offered Fall. 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture College of Agriculture College Ag & Biological Engineering Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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3.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 3.00. An introduction to power generation and transfer in mechanical and fluid power systems. Internal combustion engines, fuels, and cycles are introduced. Clutches, mechanical transmissions, automatic transmissions, hydrostatic transmissions, and final drives are discussed. Principles of hydraulics, fluids, cylinders, pumps, motors, valves, hoses, filters, reservoirs, and accumulators are studied. Typically offered Fall. 0.000 OR 3.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Laboratory, Lecture College of Agriculture College Ag & Biological Engineering Department Course Attributes: Upper Division
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1.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 1.00. An overview of the agricultural safety movement in the United States with consideration given to the specific human environmental and technological factors influencing farm-related accidents. Special emphasis is given to reduction of unnecessary risks in agricultural production. Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Spring. 0.000 OR 1.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Laboratory, Lecture College of Agriculture College Ag & Biological Engineering Department Course Attributes: Credit By Exam, Upper Division
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0.00 Credits
Credit Hours: 0.00. Supervised professional experiences in agricultural systems management. Programs must be preplanned and conducted under the direction of the departmental coordinator with the cooperation of an employer. Students must submit a summary report. Consent of the departmental cooperative professional program coordinator required. Permission of department required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer. 0.000 Credit Hours Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Experiential College of Agriculture College Ag & Biological Engineering Department Course Attributes: Coop, Full-Time Privileges, Upper Division
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