AGEN 4340 - Design of Agricultural Field Machinery

Credits: 3

Principles of operation, design, selection, testing and evaluation of agricultural field machinery and systems. Functional and mechanical performances. Crop and soil interaction with machines. Machine systems, including land preparation, crop establishment, crop protection, harvesting and post-harvest, materials handling systems. Fundamentals of Power systems for machines. Selection of electric motors as power sources, operating characteristics and circuits. Selection of internal combustion engines as power sources.