Assessment
One 2000-word assignment (50% weighting) and a one-hour written examination (50% weighting).
Lecturer
Associate Professor D S himself
Development subjects - Electives
(each .035 weighting unless otherwise indicated) 400-609 WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT Semester 2 (26 hours) (0.07 wtg)
Objectives
On completion of this subject the student will have developed an understanding of:
lhe economic, environmental and social elements involved in the development of water resources; the causes of waterlogging, salinisation of irrigated lands; the process required for prevention and mitigation of environmental degradation of irrigated lands; the policy, planning and institutional issues related to the management of surface and groundwater resources for long term sustainaЬility.
Syllabus
Introduction to planning for water resources development; conflicting uses and competition for water. Water resources mffiagement; a hoйs-tic approach to management of watersheds and river basins. Demand management and water pricing. Environmental planning process for control and mitigation of waterlogging and saliпisaйon of irrigated lands; water and salt balances; hydrosalinity analysis of the basin and irrigation area development and implementation of best management practices. Nutrient and pesticide pollution; effects and strategies for control.
Assessment
Three assignments of up to 3000 words equivalent (50% weighting) and a two-hour final examination (50% weighting).
Lecturer Dr H M MaIano
400-826 PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING INFRASTRUCTURE IN DEVELOPING COUAfТRIES
Semester 2 (13 hours comprising 8 hours of lectures and 5 hours of seminars) Objectives
On completion students will have developed: an appreciation of the full range of the elements of infrastructure in a developing society; an understanding of the system of infrastructure as a network of components; an understanding of the nature of optimal planning to meet competing demands for development. maintenance and re-development of infrastructure; skill in applying analytical techniques from other subjects in the planning and appraisal of infrastructure projects.
Syllabus
The elements of infrastructure; the technologies as available to provide each form of infrastructure maintenance, from labour intensive to equipment intensive forms;
optimisation in choosing forms of maintenance and construction; optimisation in allocating resources to competing demands for infrastructure development and maintenance; poitical factors and compromise - the art of the possible.
Assessment
One assignment of up to 3000 words equivalent (50% weighting) and a one-hour examination (50% weighting).
Lecturer
Associate Professor D S Manse!!
400-832 WATER SUPPLY FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Semester 1 (13 hours comprising 12 hours of lectures and one hour of site visit) Objectives
On completion students will know: the form of a wide range of water supply technologies suitable for small and large communities; which are the major diseases whose incidence is much affected by water quality, the means of controlling those diseases through quality of water supply, the common measures of water quality and the associated standards and criteria.
syllabus
Water supply for low-income rural and large urban communities; quality criteria;
resource allocation; paneins of water usage; sources; extractIon; storage and delivery methods; treatment processes; cost analysis, induding cost recovery.
Assessment
One assignment of up to 3000 words equivalent (50% weighting) and a one-hour examination (50% weighting).
Coordinator
Associate Professor D S Mansell
400-833 SANITАTION FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Seтestеr 1 (13 hours comprising 12 hours of lectures and a one-hour site visit) Objectives
On completion students will know: the foin of a wide range of technologies for the safe disposal of human waste (including collection, transport, treatment and disposal) on scales appropriate for communities of differing size; the major pathogens to be destroyed and measures of their level in waste water; and will appreciate cultural and economic factors which influence choices in sanitary waste disposal.
Syllabus
Waste disposal for low-income communities in hot climates; introduction;
processes not using reticulation; systems involving reticstlation; effluent and sludge disposal; agricultural wastes; garbage disposal economic aspects.
Assessment
One assignment of up to 3000 words equivalent (50% weighting) and a one-hour examination (50% weighting).
Coordinator
Associate Professor D S Mansell
400-834 AGRICULTURE AND RURAL INDUsТRIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Semester 2 (13 hours) Objectives
On completion students will understand: the basic issues involved in lIte provision of food supplies, globally and nationaly the present and future relationships between agriculture and rural industries; the part these activities play in the overall development of agriculturally based developing countries.
Syllabus
Food and agricultural commodity production; supply and demand; introduction to the resources used in agricultural production, e.g. land, water and irrigation, energy, management and mechanisation; types of rural development; identification of suitable industries and project planning.
Assessment
One assignment of up to 3000 words equivalent (50% weighting) and a one-hour examination (50% weighting).
Lecturer Mr R Macmillan
400
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835 MANUFACTURING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Semester 2 (13 hours)Objectives
On completion students will have developed an understanding of: the factors Influencing the development of manufacturing and industrialisation in developing counties; the importance of various attributes of manufacturing and
industrialisation such as scale, technology, choice, the social organisation of production and policy and planning in the development process; the basic Issues related to management of manufacturing in a developing country.
Syllabus
The role of manufacturing as a processing or value-adding activity in such areas as import substitution and export promotion; factors of production and technology choice; management issues; case studies.
Assessment
One assignment of up to 3000 words equivalent (50% weighting) and a one-hour examination (50% weighting).
Lecturer
Associate Professor D F Stewart
400-836 ENGINEERING EDUCATION
Semester 2 (13 hours comprising 8 hours of lectures and 5 hours of seminars) Objectives
On completion students will know the history of engineering education well enough to appreciate the different forms it takes in different countries; understand the structure of the profession of engineering and its linkages with associated disciplines and trades and with key factors in national development; appreciate the attributes required of an educated engineer, have critical capabilities in planning and assessing engineering education.
Syllabus
The functions of tertiary education; the attributes of an educated person and professional engineers in particular the highs and historical development of engineering education; the current forms of engineering education in various contrasting societies; establishing new universities, new courses and new subjects;
structure of academic institutions; functions of engineers, technicians and tradesmen; components of courses; physical facilities for engineering education;
role of research, lnveotigation and development in an academic department.
Assessment
One assignment of up to 3000 words equivalent (50% weighting) and a one-hour examination (50% weighting).
Lecturer
Associate Professor D S Mansell
400-837 ENERGY AND DEVELOPMENT Semester 2 (26 hours) (weighting 0.07) Objectives
On completion students will: have developed an understanding of the importance of energy sources and systems in the development process; appreciate the conflicting outcomes arising from the need for increased energy use in most developing countries and the global and local needs for suslainahility and minimal environmental impact be familiar with and capable of using a simple model when assessing energy needs; and understand the factors which lead to making an informed choice between energy technologies, particularly for rural areas.
Syllabus
Assessment of global resources of fossil fuels and renewable energy sources; an introduction to the types of energy carriers and the implications of their development, particularly for urban dwellers; selection criteria for the large range of small scale renewable energy technologies for use in rural areas.
Assessment
Two assignments of up to 2000 words equivalent (50% weighting) and a two-hour examination (50% weighting)
Lecturer Dr R Fuller
400-630 ENERGY FROM RIOMASS AND WASfES Semester 2 (39 hours) (weighting l0)
Objectives
On completion, students will have: understanding of the prospects for producing useful energy from a wide variety of waste and biomass materials, with particular reference to the problems of developing counties; understanding of the fundamentals of important pretreatment and processing steps in energy production from wastes and biomass, Including densification, pyrolysis, gasification, combustion, fermentation and anaerobic digestion; knowledge of past and current technology in important areas of biomass or wastes-based energy production, including those relating to charcoal, ethanol, gasifiers and waste combustion;
appreciation of the technical and non-technical problems that limit the application and use of biomass-baaed and waste-bated energy systems.
Syllabus
Available biomass and waste sources; the transformation of biomass and wastes into useful energy forms. Solid fuels; mechanisms of combustion, design of combustion equipment, pretreatment techniques, pollution conceits. Wood: plantations;
species selection, harvesting and usage. Agricultural wastes; harvesting, storage and use. Pyrolysis and gasification; fundamentals, equipment design and operation, gas cleaning, wood carbonisation, charcoal production and use. Liquid fuels;
characteristics and properties. Ethanol; production from sugar, starch and ceiIulose-based feedstocks, fermentation fundamentals, recovery and purification.
Vegetable oils as diesel substitutes. Octane enhancers. Gaseous fuels; producer gas, biogas. Anaerobic digestion; fundamentals, design and operation of large and small- scale digesters, use of biogas and landfill gas. Non-technical concerns; energetics of energy production from wastes and crops, economics, waste minimisation as an energy source equivalent, cultural, religious, political and administrative problems affecting the widespread introduction and use of waste and biomass-derived energy forms.
Assessment
One assignment of up to 3000 words (60%) and a two-hour examination (40%
weighting).
Lecturer Dr M A Connor
400-807 WIND AND WATER SOURCES OF ENERGY Semester 2 (24 hours of lasses)
Objectives
On successful completion of this subject a student will have acquired: a knowledge of the characteristics of wind energy and of the technical and practical applications of wind energy and water sources in energy generation; a proficiency in analysis and reporting on appropriate technical devices for energy generation.
Syllabus
Wind energy, turbines; types, construction and control; efficiencies, costs. Hydro- electric schemes; hydrological investigations; structures; conduits; turbines;
governing and local control. Transmission and reticulation of small-scale power supplies. Management of rural electrification schemes.
Lecturers
Associate Professor D S McsmlVAssociate Professor W Lewis
400
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827 MANAGEMENT, OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF IRRIGATION SYSTEMSSemester 2 (26 hours of lecturers) Objectives
On successful completion students will have developed an understanding of: the social, legal and political issues involved in the management of irrigation schemes;
the hydraulic principles involved in the operation of irrigation delivery networks with special emphasis on the equitable allocation and delivery of irrigation flows;
the principles involved in the development of sound maintenance policies and programs for long teen sustainability of the irrigation infrastructure.
Syllabus
Social, legal, political and economic framework of irrigation; institutional and community stamlies; user Involvement; corporate (strategic planning) objective setting; economic evaluation, moniumng and perfortuance evaluation; operating procedures for large scale irrigation systems; water demand and water allocations;
types of distribution methods; demand, rotation, continuous; maintenance; routine, emergency, deferred maintenance; asset management.
Assessment
Two written reports on major topics and case studies each of up to 2000 words equivalent (50% weighting) and one final two-hour exam (50% weighting).
Lecturer Dr H M Malvin
400-828 DESIGN, EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT OF FARM IRRIGATION SYSTEMS
Semester 1 (26 hours) Objectives
On completion students will have developed an understanding of: ІІe methodologies employed for evaluation of existing farm irrigauon systems; the hydraulic aud economic principles involved in the design, selection and management of farm surface and pressuńsеd irrigation systems.
SyØus
Design principles of farm irrigation systems; surface (flood) irrigation; land finning; intØuction to and use of surface irrigation; computer stiтulаtiоп models; volume balance method; spinkle irrigation systems; evaluation and design;
portable and automated sprinkler Øms; trickle irrigation systems evaluation and design.
Assessment
Reports and assignments up to a total of 40 pages (30% weighting). One two-hour examination (70% weighting).
Lecturer Dr H M Malano
400-838 AGRICGLTUAAL MECHANISATION
Semester 1 (39 hours; 26 lectures and 23 hours of practical classes) Objectives
On completion students will: understand the factors determining the functional performance of tractors and production machines in field operations in mechanised agriculture with special reference to developing countries; be capable of selecting and managing these machines to meet appropriate technical and economic objectives.
Syllabus
Performance of engines, traпоrs and animals as power units; functional and energy performance of tillage implements, distribution, harvesting and transport machines;
selection and management of such machines.
Assessment
One two-hour examination (70%) plus assignments up to 3000 words equivalent (20%) and a seminar presentation (10%).
Coordinator Mr R H Maandan
400-839 AGRICULTURAL POST-HARVEST TECHNOLOGY Semester 2 (39 hours; 13 lectures and 26 hours of design and practical classes) Objectives
On completion the student will: understand post-harvest storage and handling processes for agricultural products in developing countries; be capable of designing such facilities to meet appropriate technical and economic objectives.
Syllabus
Propel len of agricultural materials; unit operations in die storage, drying, cleaning and handing of agńcultural products such as grain, fruit and vegetables; design of such futilities.
Assessment
One two-hour exaniination (50%) plus designs and assignments up to 5000 words equivalent (50%).
Coordinator Mr R H Macmillan
400-840 ENERGY EFFICIENCY TECHNOLOGY Semester 1 (26 hours) (weighting 0.07)
Objectives
On completion students wll understand: the basic issues in energy efcient technologies and their implementation; the current possibilities for improving the ratio of energy used per unit of output in the main sectors of society, I.e.
transporlation, manufacturing, commercial, domestic, energy supply industńes; the economic and environmental implications for the adoption of these technologies.
Syllabus
Potential for improvements in energy efficiency in gasoline and diesel vehicle-oil refinery system; energy efficiency technologies for the manuØńng, commercial and domestic sectors; demand side management; integrated resource planning;
energy auditing; economic and environmental impacts.
Assessment
One assignment of up to 4000 words equivalent (50% weighting) and a two-hour examination (50% weighting).
Lecturer Dr R Fuller
436-805
SOLAR ENERGY ENGINEERING Semester 2 (24 hours of classes)Objectives
On successful completion of this subject a student will have acquired: knowledge of the characteristics of solar radiation as an energy source; knowledge of collection and utilisation techniques; proficiency in the analysis and reporting on appropriate technical devices for energy generation.
Syllabus
Nature and availability of solar radiation, radiation estimations, measuring instruments. Materials for solar energy utilisation, radiative properties and thermal transport properties. Introduction to non-concentrating and concentrating collectors, design techniques and performance estimation. Solar component and solar system operational characteristics. Practical applications of solar energy, special solar devices for developing countries, including solar desalination, solar phоtovoliaics and solar water pumping.
Lecturer Dr R Fuller
436-806 UTILISATION OF CONVENTIONAL FUELS Semester 2 (24 hours of classes)
Objectives
On successful completion of this subject a student will have acquired: a knowledge of fuel energy conversion techniques; an understanding of the principles of design of technical devices utilising fuel energy; an understanding of the principles of еІвdеncy, use, waste and optimisation.
Syllabus
The conversion of fuel energy into heat and work. The design of burners, combustion chambers, furnaces. The elements of heat engines and their of ciency.
Waste hest rejection or utilisation. Fuel combustion products. Fuels in vehicles and efficiency.
Lecturer
Associate Professor H C Watson
436-807
LТ1 L1SATI0N OF ALTERNATIVE FUELS Semester 2 (24 hours of lasses)Objectives
On successful completion of this subject a student will have acquired: a knowledge of the characteristics of alternative fuels in technological applications; an understanding of the principles of efciency, use, waste and optimisation.
Syllabus
Special requirements of proposed alternative fuels in furnaces. The use of alternative fuels in transport, engine-fuels matching and optimisation, alternative engines, durability, vehicle fuel storage options, engine-vehicle matching.
Lecturer
Associate Professor H C Watson
400-809 SPECIAL STUDIES IN DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIES - A Available either semester
Objectives
On successful completion of this subject a student wil have acquired:
uпдегslалdiпg of the fundamentals af the selected topic(s); knowledge of the applications of the selected topic in an engineering context in a developing country;
understanding of the issues and their documentation related to the selected topic(s).
Syllabus
A course of 24 hours of lectures, literature survey or its equivalent for students wishing to pursue special interests as appropriate for development technologies.
The detailed content of the course will be specifieд by the Course Coordinator after discussion with the student.
Lecturer
Associate Professor D S Mапsеll
400-810 SPECIAL STUDIES IN DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGIES - В Available either semester
Objectives
On successful completion of this subject a student will have acquired:
understanding of the fundamentals of the selected topic(s); knowledge of the applications of the selected topic in a context of hey treatment of metals and mineral processing in a developing country understanding of the Issues and their documentation related to the selected topic(s).
Syllabus
A course of 48 hours of lectures or its equivalent for students wishing to pursue special interests in hey treatment of metals and mineral dressing as appropriate for development technologies. The detailed content of the course will be specified by the Course Coordinator after discussion with the student.
Lecturer
Associate Professor D F Stewart
Candidates may choose also from the Civil and Eпvironmeпtal Engineering Programs, subject to approval of their total program of study by iiie Course Committee for Development Technologies.
In addition, the following elective subjects are available in various departments In the Faculty
400-820 DESIGN - Development Technologies Semestеr 2 (30 hours design work)
Objectives
On successful completion of this subject a student wil have acquired:
understanding of the role of the process engineer in creating and analysing processing systems; proficiency in developing analytical strategies for the solution of process engineering problems; understanding of design and economic concepts applicable to these solutions; proficiency in reporting analyses and solutions.
Syllabus
The process engineer Is responsible for creating and analysing processing systems which economically transform raw material, energy and know-how Into useful products. The course is aimed at the strategy involved in solving the problems encountered in the creation and analysis of processing systems and introduces investigation of alternatives, design variables in process analysis and economic concepts.
Assessment
Laboratory work and assignments to a total of 40 pages. The weighting of components of the assessments
'ull
be announced at the start of the semester.Coordinator
Associate Professor D S Mansell
411-820 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING PROCESSES - Development Technologies
Semester 2 (48 hours) Objectives
On successful completion of this subject a student will have acquired understanding of: the role, structure and management requirements of commercial chemical industries; the fundamentals of the legal system as It applies to these industries;
conservation issues as these relate to the operations of chemical industries.
Syllabus
Finandal and commercial organisation of a company In the chemical industry.
Source of funding, assessment of profitability. Aspects of factory operation such as control of inventory, maintenance, labour relations, factory regulations. Market forecasts, sales and distribution. Control of capital expenditure. Scheduling.
Research and development requirements and costs. Tariffs. Basic concepts of legal system, courts, tribunals, patent law, licensing agreements, professional liability, standards and codes, safety requirements, safe practice and design. Conservation of the natural environment, impact of the engineer on environmental aspects of liquid, gaseous and solid disposal, environmental legislation, plat layout.
Assessment
One two-hour weiSen examination paper.
Lecturer
Associate Professor D F Stewart
421-820 AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING - Development Technologies
Semester 1 or 2 (24 hours) Objectives
On successful completion of this subject a student will have acquired:
understanding of the requirements of the design project process; proficiency in the design of an agricultural engineering project in a specified area appropriate to agricultural engineering; proficiency In reporting the analysis and proposals for projects.
Syllabus
Design projects In some of water, energy, machines, materials or mechanisation related to agricultural engineering.
Assessment
Reports on the design projects totalling not more than 50 pages. Weighting of components will be announced at the start of the semester.
Lecturer Mr R H Macmillan
431-820 ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING - Development Technologies Semester 1 (30 hours)
Objectives
On successful completion of this subject a student will have acquired: knowledge of circuits, transmission and electrical machines relevant to development
technologies; understanding of and ргofidency in analytical techniques for assessing synchronous machines; understanding of balanced and unbalanced faults.
Syllabus
Advanced rectifierrinverter circuits, high voltage d.c. transmission. Synchronous machines, considerations of steady state analysis for cylindrical rotor and salient pole machines, synchronous machine equations, two reaction methods af analysis, transient behaviour and reaciances. Short circuit studies under conditions of balanced and unbalanced faults.
Assessment
One three-hour examination paper. Up to two class tests of one hour each.
Weighting of components will be announced at the start of the semester.
Lecturer
Associate Professor M Aldeen