Program Overview

Agricultural Engineering Program

Introduction

The Agricultural Engineering program at the university aims to cultivate outstanding engineering talents with a strong foundation in agricultural mechanics, mechanical engineering, information technology, and production management. The program focuses on developing students' learning abilities, engineering qualities, and professional expression skills, enabling them to work in the agricultural machinery industry, teaching, research, planning, management, marketing, and services.

Program Objectives

The program has five primary objectives for its graduates:

• To possess socialist core values, social responsibility, and a comprehensive development of moral, intellectual, physical, and aesthetic abilities, with a strong sense of dedication to agriculture and rural areas.
• To have a solid foundation in theory, professional knowledge, and comprehensive qualities, enabling them to solve complex engineering problems in agricultural engineering using multidisciplinary approaches.
• To possess inquiring thinking and innovative spirit, with the ability to explore cutting-edge issues in agricultural engineering and transform scientific and technological achievements.
• To have good communication skills, multidisciplinary teamwork abilities, and certain management and leadership abilities in agricultural mechanization production and enterprise management.
• To possess a global perspective, self-learning abilities, and the capacity to adapt to sustainable social development.

Graduation Requirements

Graduates of the program must meet the following requirements:

1. Engineering Knowledge: Possess mathematical, natural science, engineering foundation, and professional knowledge in agricultural machinery design, manufacturing, and automation.
2. Problem Analysis: Apply mathematical, natural science, and engineering science principles to identify, express, and analyze complex engineering problems in agricultural machinery product design, manufacturing, and electromechanical control.
3. Design/Development Solutions: Design agricultural machinery systems, components, manufacturing processes, or control schemes that meet specific needs, considering social, health, safety, legal, cultural, and environmental factors.
4. Research: Conduct research on complex engineering problems in agricultural engineering practice using scientific methods, including experiment design, data analysis, and interpretation.
5. Use of Modern Tools: Select, apply, and develop appropriate technologies, resources, modern engineering tools, and information technology tools to predict and simulate complex agricultural engineering problems.
6. Engineering and Society: Analyze the impact of engineering practice and solutions on society, health, safety, law, and culture, and understand the responsibilities of professional technicians.
7. Environment and Sustainable Development: Understand and evaluate the impact of engineering practice on the environment and social sustainable development.
8. Professional Norms: Possess humanistic and social scientific qualities, social responsibility, and the ability to understand and follow engineering professional ethics and norms.
9. Personal and Team: Play individual, team member, and leader roles in multidisciplinary teams, with certain team collaboration and organizational management abilities.
10. Communication: Communicate effectively with industry peers and the public on complex agricultural engineering problems, including report writing, design documentation, and clear expression.
11. Project Management: Understand and master engineering management principles and economic decision-making methods, applying them in multidisciplinary environments.
12. Lifelong Learning: Possess self-learning and lifelong learning consciousness, with the ability to learn and adapt continuously.

Program Details

• Duration: Four years
• Degree: Bachelor of Engineering
• Credits: 158.5 credits, including 46.5 credits for practical courses (including experimental courses)
• Core Courses: Automobile and tractor science, agricultural machinery science, agricultural mechanization production and management science, automatic control principles, and engineering testing and information processing
• Main Practical Teaching: Graduation design (thesis), mechanical science comprehensive course design, agricultural machinery course design, mechanical manufacturing process comprehensive course design, teaching practice (golden work practice), modern agricultural equipment comprehensive training, and enterprise top-post practice and training