Course Descriptions

An introduction to agricultural field equipment used for grain and forage production in Western Canada. Emphasis is placed on optimal selection, operation and performance, and management of farm machinery. Equipment studied includes: tractors, tillage, seeding, chemical application, forage harvesting, and grain harvesting equipment. Laboratories will allow students to gain a practical understanding of equipment design and function.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours and 3 Practicum/Lab hours
Restriction(s): Only open to College of Agriculture and Bioresources.
Note: Students with credit for ABE 51, ABE 205, or ABE 305 will not receive credit for this course.

Studies basic systems used in food processing including facilities, power requirements, equipment for primary and secondary processes. The specific unit operations and equipment studies include pumps and blowers, heat exchangers, drying, freezing, absorption, distillation, size reduction, and mixing. Discusses materials of construction for food process equipment and the layout of plant equipment.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours and 3 Practicum/Lab hours
Restriction(s): Open to students from all colleges except those from the College of Engineering.
Note: Students with credit for ABE 303 will not receive credit for this course.

Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special circumstances to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

Offered occasionally to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours and 1.5 Practicum/Lab hours

Deals with mathematical/computer simulation of food and bioprocesses associated with fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, internal heat generation due to biological activity and electromagnetic field treatment, and quality kinetics. Important optimization techniques will be introduced to design food processes with better energy efficiency/productivity and less quality degradation.

Weekly hours: 2.5 Lecture hours and 1.5 Practicum/Lab hours
Note: Students with credit for ABE 811 will not receive credit for this course.

Advanced topics on: indoor air quality, workers comfort and health, and psychrometry; analysis of heat and moisture problems in buildings for cold climates, effect of moisture on the properties of agricultural products and building materials with special reference to heat transfer in the unsteady state; air infiltration in agricultural buildings; heating and ventilating loads, air distribution and heat recovery systems, and ventilation strategies; simulation and optimization of heating and ventilation systems under various weather conditions for agricultural buildings.

Weekly hours: 2 Lecture hours
Note: Students with credit for ABE 840 will not receive credit for this course.

Engineering principles as applied to processing, drying and storage of various agricultural materials. Topics include thermal environment, transport process, physical properties of biological materials, postharvest metabolic changes and quality and unit operations of biomass feedstock processing. The emphasis will be on handling, storage, and drying of grains, forages, herbs and spices, biomass and their products.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Note: Students with credit for ABE 850 will not receive credit for this course.

Provides a comprehensive understanding on the food/feed/fiber (biomaterial) processing for the post-harvest value-addition chain. The course introduces graduate students in bioprocess engineering and related disciplines to the myriad of processing methods, analytical methods and applications for a range of biomaterials.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): B.Sc. or B.E. degree.
Note: Students with credit for ABE 855 will not receive credit for this course.

Special problem assignments involving investigation and/or design in each of the major study areas of agricultural engineering. Each student's work will be limited to his/her own area of specialization. A technical report in a form satisfactory to the supervisor is required.

Weekly hours: 3 Reading hours

Special problem assignments involving investigation and/or design in each of the major study areas of agricultural engineering. Each student's work will be limited to his/her own area of specialization. A technical report in a form satisfactory to the supervisor is required.

Reports and discussions on current topics of interest to Agricultural and Bioresource Engineers. All graduate students within the Department are required to register, attend, and participate throughout their program. At least one oral presentation and one poster presentation on their thesis topic is required for registered students during the period of their candidacy, whether one year or more. For students in programs lasting more than one year, either one oral presentation or one poster presentation is required each year.

Note: Students with credit for ABE 990 will not receive credit for this course.

Students writing a Master's thesis must register for this course.

Note: Students with credit for ABE 994 will not receive credit for this course.

Students writing a Ph.D. thesis must register for this course.

Note: Students with credit for ABE 996 will not receive credit for this course.