The field of Farm Machinery and Power involves the application of mechanical, physical, biological and electronic principles to the solution of real-life problems or issues in crop/fruit/vegetable production and processing. Among others, the coursework includes the study of theories of soil failure, traction, compaction, and floatation on agricultural soils; dynamics of seeding and transplanting, soil-seed and seedling–machine interactions; principles of digital and analogue measurements and control of temperature, humidity, strain, moisture content, pressure and fluid flow in engineering process; methods of testing and inspection of engineering materials, strain measurement, brittle-coating, and related instrumentation; and design of energy systems using conventional, non-conventional, renewable and other alternative power sources.
Students of this stream can pursue a career power units, harvesters, material handling, design of agricultural machinery, equipment, and agricultural structures.
