Course Offerings

PROFESSIONAL COURSES           

ABEN 50 AB Power Engineering (3)          

            Conventional and non-conventional sources of power and their measurements for agricultural and biosystems applications.

ABEN 110 Renewable Energy for AB Applications (3)    

            Principles and design criteria of solar energy collection; wind and micro-hydro energy resource calculations; Biomass energy resource calculations

ABEN 70 AB Machinery and Mechanization (3)   

            Principles of agricultural and bio-production mechanization; specifications, construction, operation, testing, selection and economics of agricultural and bio-production machinery; farm machinery management

ABEN 90 Machine Design for AB Production (3) 

            Fundamentals of machine design as applied to bio-production systems.

ABEN 60 AB Structures Engineering (3)

            Engineering principles of AB structures design; design criteria for construction structures; concepts of materials of engineering; material selection; cost estimates and specifications; application of the Philippines Building Code and other related laws, regulations, and standards; preparation of 7-sheet building plan for permit application.

ABEN 100 Plant and Livestock Systems and Environmental Control Engineering (3)       

            Environmental parameters and their interrelationships in a plant and livestock production system; microclimate modification for plants and livestock; principles of environmental control engineering; analysis and design of environmentally controlled AB structures.

ABEN 80 AB Electrification and Control Systems (3)     

            Review of basic electrical engineering concepts and design of residential and farmstead wiring systems

ABEN 120 AB Waste Management Engineering (3)         

            Characterization of agricultural and bio-product wastes; processes and systems; analysis and design of agricultural waste utilization, treatment and management systems, economics, entrepreneurial, environmental, institutional and legal aspects of waste utilization.

ABEN 55 Hydrometeorology (3)     

            The hydrologic cycle; climatic elements; streamflow hydrographs; evaporation and evapotranspiration; groundwater; hydrograph and runoff analysis; statistical treatment of hydrologic data; study and use of hydrometeorological instruments.

ABEN 75 Irrigation and Drainage Engineering (3)           

            Soil-plant-water relationships; flow measurement; use and selection of pumps; survey of irrigation and drainage systems; system planning and design.

ABEN 95 Land and Water Conservation Engineering (3)

            Planning, design, construction and maintenance of water conservation systems; soil erosion control systems.

ABEN 115 Aquaculture Engineering (3)    

            Principles of planning aquaculture systems; layout of farm facilities.

ABEN 65 Properties of AB Materials (3)   

            Physical characteristics, electrical, mechanical, thermal and optical properties of AB materials.

ABEN 85 AB Products Processing and Storage (3)        

            Principles and practices in the primary processing, handling, and storage of agricultural crops including refrigeration and cold storage systems.

ABEN 105 Food Process Engineering (3) 

            Unit operations in agricultural process engineering including dehydration, freezing, size reduction and enlargement, evaporation for fluid concentration, mechanical separation, and mixing.

ABEN 125 Design and Management of AB Processing Systems (3)    

            Principles and practices in plant design; process and economic analysis; agricultural plant operation and management

BSABE Curriculum (in pdf)