COURSE SYLLABUS

EXPERIMENTAL METHODS IN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY

1	Course Title:	EXPERIMENTAL METHODS IN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY
2	Course Code:	BSM4814-S
3	Type of Course:	Optional
4	Level of Course:	First Cycle
5	Year of Study:	4
6	Semester:	8
7	ECTS Credits Allocated:	3
8	Theoretical (hour/week):	2
9	Practice (hour/week) :	0
10	Laboratory (hour/week) :	0
11	Prerequisites:	No
12	Recommended optional programme components:	None
13	Language:	Turkish
14	Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
15	Course Coordinator:	Prof. Dr. Halil Ünal
16	Course Lecturers:	Yok
17	Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:	Prof. Dr. Halil ÜNAL e-posta : hunal@uludag.edu.tr Telefon: 0 224 2941607 Adres: Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, Ziraat Fakültesi, Biyosistem Mühendisliği Bölümü, Görükle Kampüsü, 16059, Nilüfer/BURSA
18	Website:
19	Objective of the Course:	Agricultural machinery performance, productivity levels, production quality, national and international standards and conformity of agricultural techniques, to teach the scientific and technical findings.
20	Contribution of the Course to Professional Development	At the end of this course, the student; 1. The student makes experiments on agricultural machinery. 2. Can provide consultancy on the experiments of companies. 3. Can work as an expert in various sectors. 4. Have enough knowledge to work as a consultant. 5. Can make necessary field and laboratory tests for national and international agricultural machinery.

Learning Outcomes:

1	Improve work quality and efficiency of farm machinery business learns the necessary engineering calculations and designs.;
2	Gain ability to learn and use agricultural machines and measuring tools and equipment used in experiments.;
3	Agricultural machine making the experiment, the type of machine equipment, machine elements used in the practical learns.;
4	Examines the job security of the machines and ergonomic aspects of design, development and production of learned studies.;

22	Course Content:

Week	Theoretical	Practical
1	The purpose of the experiments and the importance of farm machinery, agricultural tools and machinery principles and methods of test, examination of the TS and ISO standards;
2	Soil, product disclosure and other experimental conditions, agricultural machines, job quality and job description and calculation of the yields of different sizes;
3	Determine the method of experiment, measurement of agricultural machinery and tools used in experiments; draft force, power, fuel consumption measurement methods;
4	Experimental Methods: Tractor and cabin experiments; soil processing tools and machinery tests
5	Experimental Methods: Sowing, planting, maintenance and fertilizing machinery tests;
6	Experimental Methods: mowing, hay balers barrel-turning machines and experiments, harvesting and threshing machines, combine harvesters and other experiments;
7	Experimental Methods: Agricultural spraying equipment tests;
8	Repeating courses and midterm exam
9	Experimental Methods: Postharvest food crushing, grinding, cleaning, classification, and testing machines;
10	Experimental Methods: product transport and transmission experiments,
11	Experimental Methods: milking machines and cooling experiments,
12	Experimental Methods: Other food, agriculture and livestock equipment, test methods, experimental essays.
13	Arrangement of the test reports.
14	Arrangement of the test reports.

23	Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:	1. GTHB, 2008. Tarım Makinaları Deney İlke Ve Metodları. Gıda, Tarım ve Hayvancılık Bakanlığı, Ankara. 2. TSE (Çeşitli Tarım Makinalarını kapsayan Ulusal Standartlar) 3. ISO (Çeşitli Tarım Makinalarını kapsayan Uluslararası Standartlar).
24	Assesment

TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES	NUMBER	PERCENT
Midterm Exam	1	30
Quiz	0	0
Homeworks, Performances	1	20
Final Exam	1	50
Total	3	100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade		50
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade		50
Total		100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course	Measurement and evaluation is carried out according to the principles of Bursa uludag University Associate and Undergraduate Education Regulation.
Information	Results are determined with the letter grade determined by the student automation system.

ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE

CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS

LO: Learning Objectives

PQ: Program Qualifications

Contribution Level:

1 Very Low

2 Low

3 Medium

4 High

5 Very High