• To provide high quality education to students through advanced skill based learning and value added programmes.
• To establish the state of art laboratories in farm machinery, soil water conservation, food and agricultural processing and renewable energy.
• To develop the affordable technologies in various areas of agricultural engineering with linkages of industries and institutions.
• To impart various awareness campaign, training programmes and demonstrations by faculty and the students on latest techniques to the farmers, officials and entrepreneurs for maximizing returns from agriculture.

• PEO 1: Graduates will have a successful professional career in the field of Agricultural Engineering and related disciplines.
• PEO 2: Graduates will formulate, analyse and provide solution to the real world problems faced by the farmers through applying the knowledge in the field of Agricultural Engineering.
• PEO 3: Graduates will have commitment to life long learning with mechanization knowledge and apply their career for flourishing the farming community.

• PS01 Apply the agricultural engineering design and concepts, methodologies and techniques for effective and efficient agricultural production.
• PS02 Analyze the real time agriculture problems and to provide solutions by applying appropriate technology.
• PS03 Develop employment and entrepreneurial ability in different disciplines of agricultural engineering.

Students graduating from Agriculture Engineering should be able to:

• PO1 Engineering Knowledge: Apply the knowledge of mathematics, science, engineering fundamentals, and an engineering specialization to the solution of complex engineering problems.
• PO2 Problem Analysis: : Identify, formulate, review research literature, and analyze complex engineering problems reaching substantiated conclusions using first principles of mathematics, natural sciences, and engineering sciences.
• PO3 Design/Development of Solutions: Design solutions for complex engineering problems and design system components or processes that meet the specified needs with appropriate consideration for the public health and safety, and the cultural, societal, and environmental considerations.
• PO4 Conduct Investigations of Complex Problems: Use research-based knowledge and research methods including design of experiments, analysis and interpretation of data, and synthesis of the information to provide valid conclusions.
• PO5 Modern Tool Usage: Create, select, and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and modern engineering and IT tools including prediction and modeling to complex engineering activities with an understanding of the limitations.
• PO6 The Engineer and Society:Apply reasoning informed by the contextual knowledge to assess societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities relevant to the professional engineering practice.
• PO7 Environment and Sustainability: Understand the impact of the professional engineering solutions in societal and environmental contexts, and demonstrate the knowledge of, and need for sustainable development.
• PO8 Ethics: Apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities and norms of the engineering practice.
• PO9 Individual and Team Work: Function effectively as an individual, and as a member or leader in diverse teams, and in multidisciplinary settings.
• PO10 Communication: Communicate effectively on complex engineering activities with the engineering community and with society at large, such as, being able to comprehend and write effective reports and design documentation, make effective presentations, and give and receive clear instructions.
• PO11 Project Management and Finance: Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the engineering and management principles and apply these to one’s own work, as a member and leader in a team, to manage projects and in multidisciplinary environments.
• PO12 Life-long Learning: Recognize the need for, and have the preparation and ability to engage in independent and life-long learning in the broadest context of technological change.

The department offers the following courses:

• 4 year UG course – B.Tech. Agricultural Engineering

• Supported by Centre for Aero Space and Research,MIT,Anna University,Chennai
• Interdisciplinary Certification Course
• Course Duration -30 Hrs

Course Layout
Introduces the initial designing and sizing process - Basic Design

• Parameters
• Performance and Stability Analysis
• Prototype Fabrication.

Applications in various fields

• Agricultural
• Health Care
• Military
• Surveying
• Disaster relief
• Hands-on learning
• Training on future technologies

Benefits of the Course:

• Drone Career (more new jobs in unmanned aircraft and drone technology by 2025)
• Internship in Daksha
• Opportunities to be part of Daksha Team

• The laboratories are well equipped with the state-of-art precision defined instruments to explore ideas and visualize the concepts of technology in agriculture.

The Department has advanced equipment Laboratory

• Crop Husbandry Laboratory
• Surveying and Leveling Laboratory
• Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
• Soil Science Laboratory
• Irrigation Field Laboratory

• Unmanned aerial vehicles carrying multimodal sensors for precision agriculture (PA) applications face adaptation challenges to satisfy reliability, accuracy, and timeliness.
• Unlike ground platforms, UAV/drones are subjected to additional considerations such as payload, flight time, stabilization, autonomous missions, and external disturbances.
• For instance, in oil palm plantations (OPP), accruing high resolution images to generate multidimensional maps necessitates lower altitude mission flights with greater stability.

• Escorts Training and Development Centre, Bangalore
• BULL ENGINEERING, Coimbatore
• MoU with Tamilnadu Agricultural University(TNAU)