Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue

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AVANOS VOCATIONAL SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS / ORT 130 - ORGANIC FARMING

Code: ORT 130 Course Title: AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION Theoretical+Practice: 3+1 ECTS: 4
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Spring Semester
Level of Course Short Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Compulsory
Department ORGANIC FARMING
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer EMEL KAÇAR (emelkacar@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s) AYBEY İMAMOĞLU,
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
To obtain basic information about engineering, technology and farming techniques and basic concepts related to the national and international institutions and organizations; to inform students about issues on development of mechanization in agriculture, energy and agriculture, electrical and thermal engines, tractors, tillage machines, sowing, planting, fertilizing and maintenance machinery, irrigation machinery, agricultural machinery of war, harvest-threshing machinery, animal husbandry mechanization, greenhouse mechanization, agricultural machinery management; to teach agricultural mechanization practices, machine selection, allowing the creation of mechanization chain, setting, maintenance and operational problems and solutions in ways.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 can understand technical and basic definitions. PO-7 Follows the modern agricultural techniques related to the field and puts them into practice.
Examination
LO-2 can recognize the types, structures and basic equipment of tractors, which are basic force machines in agriculture. It can understand the basic selection, use, setting, maintenance and operation rules required for tractor-agricultural machine PO-9 Practical applications related to organic agriculture program ability to use the necessary equipment.
Examination
LO-3 can agricultural machinery can decide the acquisition and usage required for the operation and, in case of purchase, can choose the appropriate type and capacity. Investigate the existing chain of mechanization in agricultural enterprises and apply necessary new techniques and technologies PO-9 Practical applications related to organic agriculture program ability to use the necessary equipment.
Examination
LO-4 can calculate the work width, work depth, pulling force and pulling power requirement of cultivating machines, sowing / fertilizing / spraying norm, marker length, theoretical and actual work success, and can understand how to make the necessary settings by using the values ​​obtained from the calculations in practical applications PO-14 Using the basic level of knowledge and skills she/he has acquired, she/he will be able to interpret and evaluate data, identify and analyze problems, and develop solutions based on evidence.
Examination
LO-5 can the appropriate mechanization planning by determining the mechanization requirements in agricultural enterprises. PO-22 It collects data in the field and transfers the results to the application.
Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Agricultural mechanization: ENERGY AND AGRICULTURE: ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT and POWER ENGINES:TRACTORS: SOIL PROCESSING EQUIPMENT: OCTOBER, SEWING, FERTILIZATION AND MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT: IRRIGATION EQUIPMENT: WAR AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY: HARVEST MACHINE HARVESTING: PRODUCT PROCESSING EQUIPMENT: SELECTION AND BUSINESS PRINCIPLES OF AGRICULTURAL : GREENHOUSE MECHANIZATION: ANIMAL MECHANIZATION.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Introduction and important of agricultural mechanisation presantation
2 Universal bacis units and calculations, to have knowledges about national and international agreements presantation
3 Mechanisation on farm presantation
4 Energy and farm presantation
5 Tractors presantation
6 Classification of tractors, structured propterties and working principles presantation
7 Soil planting machines presantation
8 mid-term exam
9 planting, fertilization, irrigation machines presantation
10 Planting methods,classification of plant machines presantation
11 Nursing plant planting machine properites and working principles presantation
12 Plant aspect machines properties and working principles presantation
13 Irrigation machines presantation
14 Basic concepts about water machines, classification water machines presantation
15 Harvest machines presantation
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Bağ-Bahçe Mekanizasyonu , Tarım ve Köy işleri Bakanlığı, 2007.
Required Course instruments and materials
1-Dinçer, H., 1981, Tar?msal Kuvvet Makineleri. Ankara Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Yay?nlar? No: 751, Ankara. 2- Keskin R. ve Erdo?an, D. 1996. Tar?msal Mekanizasyon. Ankara Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Yay?nlar? No:927, Ankara. 3-Tezer E. ve Sabanc?, A. 2001.Tar?msal Mekanizasyon I. Çukurova Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi Ders Kitaplar? Yay?n No: A-7. Adana 4- Öztekin S. ve ark. 2006. Tar?m Makinalar? 2. Nobel Kitabevi, Adana

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 1 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 1 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 4 14 56
Outside Class
       a) Reading 0
       b) Search in internet/Library 0
       c) Performance Project 3 8 24
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 1 14 14
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 2 6 12
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 2 6 12
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 120