Agricultural Engineering Project (Part I)

Course Objective:

The objective of Agricultural Engineering Project work is to provide the students opportunity of  hands-on skill development and practical learning involving design, development, fabrication, testing and evaluation and its exploitation on Agricultural Engineering problems pertaining to any one specializing areas. At least 4 students shall be in a group for one project and each group will be under the guidance of a team of specialized faculty member/s designated by the Agricultural Engineering Department. A task at the beginning of fourth year shall be assigned to the group. It will be completed within the due date. A project report, in prescribed format, requires to submit on due date to the department.
The basic work of Agricultural Engineering Project (Part A) is to expose the students to preparation and presentation of technical papers and reports on a technical forum, on the issues pertaining to Agricultural Engineering Project (Part B) that shall be completed in fourth year part II. In first part of Project Work each group of students shall prepare a project proposal.  The project proposal shall be presented by the group of students in the technical forum or department. After presentation of the seminar they will be required to prepare and submit a final project proposal to the department.
Faculty and guest speakers shall be invited to present seminar on topics/issues relevant to Agricultural Engineering to enhance the project work.

Evaluation Scheme:
The evaluation of the project work shall be done as under: