Learn the mechanics of machinery and develop the skills to design, build and maintain equipment. Contribute to safer and more efficient machine systems. We teach the tools of precision agriculture — such as Global Positioning Systems (GPS), sensors and geographic information systems (GIS).
Our graduates are employed in a wide variety of agribusiness companies.
You’ll get extensive in-class and hands-on experience with equipment, machinery and computer technology. Experiment with tools and equipment in the shop practices lab. Learn about wire connections, switches and motors in the electric power lab. Shape and work metal in the welding lab. Understand fluids — from water pressure to turbine engines — in the power and machinery lab. Use state-of-the-art design software in the computing lab.
In your senior year, you will draw on everything you’ve learned when your team tackles a real-world project. You might develop a new mechanical method for clearing straw and dust from an engine, design a joy stick that controls a combine, or investigate setting up a small on-farm biodiesel manufacturing operation.
Students are encouraged to complete an internship the summer between their junior and senior year.
