IMPROVE YOUR ENGINEERING KNOWLEDGE
This course provides an achievable first step towards a career and future you want…an opportunity to test the water without over commiting.
Advance your knowledge in Engineering and take steps to secure a workplace in a field you like.
Course Aim
To apply appropriate, and innovative engineering solutions, to improve efficiency and productivity in agriculture and horticulture.
PRE-REQUISITES
A basic understanding of Engineering function is assumed, equivalent to Engineering I – Machinery & Equipment BSC105.
CONTENTS
There are nine lessons as follows:
- Surveying
- Earthworks
- Water management
- Environmental control
- Chemical applications
- Fencing
- Mechanisation
- Engineering efficiency
- Developing engineering solutions
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Explain surveying, including basic principles and techniques, appropriate for horticulture and agriculture
- Determine earthworks required for an agricultural or horticultural site
- Determine appropriate water management for an horticultural/agricultural site.
- Determine technological solutions for environmental control problems, in rural or horticultural situations.
- Explain the operation of equipment commonly used to apply pesticides and other chemicals in both horticultural and agricultural workplaces.
- Determine appropriate fencing to use for different purposes; including security and restricting the movement of animals, pests or traffic, in agricultural and horticultural situations.
- Explain the operation of machinery commonly used to mechanise manual tasks
- carried out in horticultural and agricultural workplaces.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of engineering applications in agricultural and horticultural workplaces.
- Determine procedures for improving work tasks in agricultural and horticultural situations.
