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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS TAR 4118 AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Agricultural Management

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DILEK YÜCEL ENGINDENIZ

Offered to

Agricultural Management (Evening) Agricultural Management

Course Objective

At the end of this course, students will have a general knowledge about agricultural mechanization. The students learn the tools and machinery used in cultivate of agricultural lands and importance of agricultural mechanization .

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to transfer of definition and importance of agricultural mechanization 2   Being able to classify operating systems of motors and agricultural tractors. 3   Being able to examine used machines such as tillage, seed bed preparation, planting, fertilizing processes. 4   Being able to information on harvest and post-harvest processing and job security. 5   Being able to follow developments in Turkey and in the world related to tillage.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description 1 Mechanization and its importance in agriculture 2 Engines 3 Tractor types and its importance in agriculture 4 Deep soil tillage machines 5 Surface soil tillage machines (plows, cultivator, milling) 6 Surface soil cultivating machinery (harrows, rollers), soil cultivating combinations 7 Mid-term exam 8 Mid-term exam 9 Planting machines 10 Sewing machines 11 Fertilizing machines 12 Spraying machines 13 Plant maintenance and irrigation machines, harvesting machines 14 The use of machinery in agricultural production in Turkey

Recomended or Required Reading

Tarım Makinaları, Erdoğan. D., Ankara Üniversitesi Yayınları. Yayın no: 1548, Ankara, 2005

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Presentation 2. Question-Answer 3. Active Participation

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA 1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM 2 FN Final 3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE VZ*0.40 + FN* 0.60 4 RST RESIT 5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) VZ*0.40 + BUT* 0.60 *** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Mid-term exam and final exam to measure learning outcomes and the learning outcomes that will be followed in reaching the stage of the student.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours) Lectures 12 2 24 Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 1 12 Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10 Preparation for final exam 1 15 15 Midterm 1 1 1 Final 1 1 1 TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 63

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO PO.1 PO.2 PO.3 PO.4 PO.5 PO.6 PO.7 PO.8 PO.9 PO.10 PO.11 PO.12 PO.13 PO.14 PO.15 LO.1 1 LO.2 1 LO.3 1 LO.4 1 LO.5 1 1 1