Agricultural Engineering College and Research Institute

Kumulur, Trichy, Tamil Nadu

India – 621 712

 

 

General

Agricultural Engineering College and Research Institute is a Constituent Educational Institution under the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University. The Agricultural Engineering College and Research Institute is the only College in Tamil Nadu offering agricultural engineering degree programme leading to B.Tech.  It was started in the year 1972 at Coimbatore and the under graduate programme was shifted to Kumulur, Tiruchirappalli in the year 1992.  The Kumulur campus has a total area of 283 acres.

 

Agricultural Engineering prepares a student for careers in the public and private sectors that address the challenges imposed by a rapidly growing world population, expanding food and energy needs, increasing resource demands and greater environmental stresses. The undergraduate programme imparts following skills to the undergraduate students

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

ADMISSION PROCEDURE

            For getting admission into the college, the minimum eligibility marks to be secured by the candidate is as follows

 

HSC / Equivalent – Academic Stream

 

Subjects studied

Eligible Minimum Marks (%)

OC

BC

MBC/DNC

SC/ST

i. Major

Mathematics

60

60

55

Pass

ii.Minor

Physics and Chemistry taken together

60

60

55

Pass

Aggregate of (i) and (ii) above should not be less than

70

(140/200)

65

(130/200)

60

(120/200)

Pass

HSC – Vocational Stream

 

i. Mathematics and Physics

60

60

55

Pass

ii. Vocational subject – Theory and Practical taken together

60

60

55

Pass

Aggregate of (I) and (ii) above should not be less than

70

(140/200)

65

(130/200)

60

(120/200)

Pass

 

 

            Then the candidate has to appear in the Common Entrance Examination conducted by the Anna University, Chennai. The sum of the Entrance examination mark and the aggregate mark calculated as mentioned above is taken as the criterion for giving admission.

 

ACADEMIC PROGRAMME

 

The B.E (Ag.) degree programme consists of the following major areas of study

 

Sl. No

Subject

% of the total cuuriculum

1

General Engineering

15

 

Agricultural engineering                               

a.      Farm Machinery and Power

b.      Soil and Water Conservation Engg.

c.       Agricultural Process Engg.

d.      Bio energy

e.       Agricultural Structures

 

 

60

2

Agricultural Sciences

10

3

Basic Sciences, Humanities and Legal issues

10

4

Practical Training                              

a.      Hands-on training in operation of tractors/power tillers/farm implements/drip & sprinkler irrigation systems etc.

b.      Commercial Agricultural Engineering

c.       Industrial Training and Village stay programme

d.      Tours and Visits and case studies

e.       Group project work

 

 

 

 

 

5

 

 

COURSE CONTENT

 

 

Basic Sciences, Humanities and Legal Issues

            This area covers study on Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Statistics, Economics and Languages.

 

 

 

 

General Engineering

            This area covers study on  Geometrical Drawing, Thermodynamics, Heat Power Engineering, Heat and Mass Transfer, Production Technology, Electrical Engineering, Theory of Machines & Machine Design, Surveying, Environmental Engineering, Fluid Mechanics and Electronics.

 

 

 

 

Farm Machinery and Power Engineering

             This area covers study on Tractor Mechanism and Maintenance, Design and Testing of Tillage, Sowing, Harvesting and Thrashing machines, Plant Protection Equipments and Well Drilling Equipments.

 

 

 

 

    A very good production workshop is available with drilling machines, lathes, shaping machines, milling machines and welding machines. Students fabricate and test many agricultural implements in this workshop.

 

 

 

Soil and Water Conservation Engineering

            This area covers study on Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, Principles of Pumps, Hydrology, Ground water and Wells, Soil Erosion and its Control, Watershed Management and Drip and Sprinkler Irrigation Systems.

 

Agricultural Structures

            Students learn to design and analyse structures for live stock and Farm houses.  They also study Rural Water supply and Sanitary Engineering.  Design aspects include laying of farm roads, village roads, construction of culverts, rural housing etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Agricultural Process Engineering

This area covers study on  Processing of Agricultural and Horticultural Crop Produces, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Systems, Food and Dairy Engineering, Waste and By-products Utilization and Agro Industrial Management.

 

 

 

 

Bio Energy

            This area covers study on  Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass, Biogas Technology, Wind Mills and Solar energy Technology.

 

 

 

 

Agricultural Sciences

            Introductory courses on Crop Management, Soil Science, Horticulture and Seed Technology are taught.  They are given hands-on training in farming under students’ plot cultivation programme.  They are imparted training in Animal Husbandry and integrated farming.

 

 

 

 

LIBRARY

     College has a very good library facilty with 5561 total number of  text books and 557 reference books. Twenty numbers of video lessons related to agricultural engineering are also available.

 

Practical Training

            In the final year, students are attached with a leading industrial organization related to Agricultural Engineering for  three months. They also stay for 10 days in a village to study the rural conditions and to plan for the developmental works.  The village stay programme helps them to apply their theoretical knowledge to solve practical problems.  The students are also taken on tours and field trips during their curriculum to get to know the latest developments around the country in the field of agricultural engineering.  In the Commercial Agricultural engineering course, they are trained practically on selected subject areas to equip them for entrepreneurship.  In addition, they take up research project in the sixth and the seventh year to solve a particular problem in a systematic way.

 

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

            The graduates of this college have good job prospects both in private and public sectors, government departments and nationalized banks.  Following is the list of employers those have employed majority of our graduates.

 

 

Ø      Agricultural Engineering Department, Government of Tamil Nadu.

Ø      Farm Implements and Tractor testing institutes, Government of India

Ø      Commercial public sector and private sector banks

Ø      Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, ICAR and other ICAR Institutes

Ø      Tractors and Farm equipment manufacturing companies such as HMT, Massey Ferguson and Mahindra etc.

Ø      Irrigation Equipment Companies such as Jain Irrigation.  Plasto Irrigation, Premier Irrigation, etc.

Ø      Food industries like Aurofoods, Thermox, Spencers, etc.

Ø      Tea and Coffee estates and Processing companies such as AVT, Ponnappa coffee, TATA tea etc.

Ø      Self employment in areas like manufacturing farm equipments, drip and sprinkler equipments, food processing industries and wind and bio energy gadgets

 

Our students have found places in the following institutions in India and abroad  for MS and Ph.D. programmes

           

1.      Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

2.      Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai

3.      Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi

4.      Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

5.      Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

6.      Indian Institute of Rural Management, Anand

7.      Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore

8.      Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli

9.      G.B. Pant University, Pant Nagar

10.  Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

11.  University of Manitoba, Canada

12.  University of Saskatchewan, Canada

13.  Ohio State University, USA

14.  Oklahoma State University, USA

15.  Pennsylvania State University, USA

16.  South Dakota State University, USA

17.  Texas A & M University, USA

18.  University of California at Davis, USA

19.  University of Georgia, USA

20.  University of Nebraska, USA

21.  Utah State University, USA

22.  Virginia Technology, USA

23.  University of Tokyo, Japan

 

                                               

THE FACULTY

 

DEAN

 

              Dr. C. T .Devadas,

 

Department of Farm Machinery and Power & Bio-Energy

 

1.                  Dr. M. Ramanathan, Ph.D., Professor & Head

2.                  Dr. V. Murugesan, Ph.D., Professor of Bio-Energy

3.                  Dr. A. Tajuddin, Ph.D.,Assoc. Professor of  Farm Machinery & Power

4.                  Dr. C. Diwakar  Durairaj, Ph.D., Professor of  Farm Machinery & Power

5.                  Dr. S. Ganapathy, Asst. Professor of  Farm Machinery & Power

6.                  Er.  Surendrakumar, M.E.(Ag.), Asst. Professor of  Farm Machinery & Power

 

 

Department of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering & Agricultural Structures

 

1.                  Dr. S. Santhana Bosu, Ph.D., Professor of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering & Head

2.                  Dr. V. Rajendran, Ph.D., Professor of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering

3.                  Dr. R. Rajendran, Ph.D., Assoc. Professor of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering

4.                  Er.  V. Kumar, M.E. (Ag.), Asst. Professor of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering

5.                  Dr. V. Ravikumar, Ph.D., Asst. Professor of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering

6.                  Er.  R.Lalitha, M.E. (Ag.), Asst. Professor of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering

 

Department of Agricultural Process Engineering & Basic Sciences

 

1.                   Dr. S. Varadharajan, Ph.D. Assoc. Professor of Physics  & Head

2.                   Ms. S.Daisy, B.Sc., M.P.Ed., Asst. Director of Physical Education

3.                   Mr. R.Sathy, Ph.D., Asst. Professor of Mathematics

4.                   Dr. K. Alagusundaram, Ph.D., Asst. Professor of Agricultural Process Engineering

5.                   Dr. T. Pandiyarajan, Ph.D., Asst. Professor of Agricultural Process Engineering

 

 

Department of Agricultural Sciences

 

1.                   Dr. N. Ramasamy, Ph.D., Professor of Agronomy & Head

2.                   Dr. R. Marimuthu, Ph.D., Professor of Plant Breeding

3.                   Dr. B. Thiyagarajan, Ph.D., Professor of Agricultural Extension

4.                   Dr. R. Kavimani, Ph.D., Professor of Agronomy

5.                   Dr. K. Annadurai, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Agronomy

6.                   Dr. P. Parasuraman, Ph.D., Asst. Professor of Agronomy)

7.                   Dr. P. Masilamani, Ph.D., Asst. Professor of Seed Technology

8.                   Mr.R. Senthilkumar, M.Sc.(Ag.), Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics

9.                  Dr. P. Balasubramaniam, Assistant Professor of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry

 

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION KINDLY CONTACT

 

The Dean,

Agricultural Engineering College and Research Institute,

Tamil Nadu Agricultural University

Kumulur, Lalgudi

Tiruchirappalli – 621 712

 Tamil Nadu  India

Phone: 0431 – 2541218, 2543 718.

FAX: 091-431-2541218

Email:  deancaekum@tnau.ac.in

 

 

RESEARCH

 

            In this college, many research schemes funded by external agencies are being undertaken. Following is the list of the schemes  undergoing.

 

 

S1.

No.

 

 

Name of the Scheme

 

Funding Agency

 

Budget Rs. In Lakhs

Period

 

Project Leader

 

From

 

To

 

1

 

Land Drainage Planning in Thanjavur Delta using Remote Sensing and GIS

 

 

ICAR / NATP-CGP

 

 

21.87

 

 

1.4.2001

 

 

31.3.2004

Dr. S. Santhana Bosu

Professor,  Soil and Water Conservation Engineering

2

Study on the effect of sugarcane distillery effluent on the agro-eco system through system modeling

 

 SISMA, Chennai.

 

4.74

 

1.4.2002

 

31.3.2005

Dr. S. Santhana Bosu, Professor,  Soil and Water Conservation Engineering

3

Development and micro processor based precision farming equipment

ICAR NATP – CGP

 

17.22

 

1.4.2001

 

31.12.2003

Dr.C.Divaker Durairaj, Professor, Farm Machinery

4

Development of an electrostatic sprayer

ICAR-NATP CGP-II

 

11.6

 

1.4.2003

 

31.12.2003

Dr. S. Ganapathy,

Asst. Professor (FMP)

5

Rainfall climatology of Agro Eco Zone no.4 of North western Agroclimatic zone of Tamil Nadu.

 

ICAR Adhoc

 

7.3

 

Yet to start

 

-

Dr. P. Parasuraman

Asst. Professor (Agronomy)

6

Controlled Atmosphere Storage

 

ICAR – AP Cess

 

19.80

 

1998

 

2003

Dr. K. Alagusundaram, Asst. Professor (APE)

7

Microwave Irradiation for sterilizing liquid  foods with particular emphasis on producing value added mango pulp

 

ICAR – NATP – CGP

 

12.70

 

2001

 

2004

Dr. K. Alagusundaram, Asst. Professor (APE)

 

 

 

EXTENSION & TRAINING

 

            Farm advisory services are provided to the farmers,  on various agricultural engineering applications and agricultural practices. The staff of this college are regularly invited as expert speakers by the organizations like Irrigation Management Institute, Trichy and Agricultural Engineering Training Institute, Trichy.  Recently the college has been recognized as the Rice Breeding Center by the University. Following are the some of the trainings organized at this college recently.

 

 

Sl.No

 

Name of the Training

 

Duration / Date

Collaborating organizations

Number of participants

 

 

1

 

 

Waste Land  Development 

 

 

24.4.03

 

Kumaraperumal Farm Science Centre (KVK), Sirugamani.

 

 

 

25

 

2

 

Entrepreneurship Development

 

29.7.03

Funded by McGill –CIDA Canada under the project on “Consolidation of Food Security in South India and TREC – STEP, Trichy

 

40

3

Paddy Direct Seeder

16.9.03

Animal Man Ecology Foundation (AME) and KSNM Marketing, Coimbatore

 

110

4

System of Rice Intensification (SRI)

Rabi Season  2003

Tamil Nadu Rice Research Institute, Aduthurai

 

7