Basic principles of selection and operation of agricultural production equipment, including farm tractors and machines and crop-processing equipment. Planning considerations for crop storage and animal production systems and devices for water conservation and erosion control. Typically offered Fall Spring.

ASM 10400 Introduction To Agricultural Systems

Introduction To Agricultural Systems

Computers will be used to solve problems (logistics, economic, agri-science) related to agricultural technology and businesses. Spreadsheets for problem solving and data analysis is the focus, with advanced features employed to improve functionality and capability of decision aids. Use of office software for written communication and visual aids will also be covered. Some applications of cloud platforms and specialty applications for communication and computations in team/group environments will be used. Interoperability and compatibility of files and platforms will be part of the experience. Typically offered Spring.

ASM 10500 Computing Technology With Applications

Computing Technology With Applications

Use of computers to solve problems related to agricultural technology and businesses.  Spreadsheets, word processors, and presentation software will be the focus.  Emphasis will be on logical problem solving and data presentation using advanced features of office software.  A 10000-level number is being used because it is intended as a first-year course.  Typically offered Spring.

ASM 10500 Agricultural Systems Computations And Communication

Agricultural Systems Computations And Communication

Fundamental principles in the selection and use of tools for the construction and maintenance of agricultural and related facilities, equipment, and machines. Areas covered include small engines, concrete and masonry, wood, plumbing, electricity, and metal.

ASM 20100 Construction And Maintenance

Construction And Maintenance

Introduction to graphic communication methods using traditional techniques and emphasizing modern computer-based techniques. Topics covered include: free-hand sketching, lettering, and dimensioning; selection of data presentation methods; and plan interpretation and cost calculations. A majority of assignments will include use of commercially available computer-aided drawing packages.

ASM 21100 Technical Graphic Communications

Technical Graphic Communications

Introduction to plane surveying, including instruction and practice in the use of surveying instruments.  Basic overview of distance/angle measurement, leveling, direction, traversing, and mapping.  Each weekly topic includes practical application and field exercises as applied to landscape architecture and forestry. Typically offered Spring.

ASM 21600 Introduction To Surveying

Introduction To Surveying

An introductory course to acquaint students with career and employment opportunities in the field of agricultural systems management. Guest speakers are invited to share their experiences and philosophies with the students. Special emphasis is given to improving communication skills.

ASM 22100 Career Opportunities Seminar

Career Opportunities Seminar

Principles of machine performance, capacity, machinery components, and operation. Study of tractors, trucks, utility vehicles, and combines. Equipment topics include chemical application, tillage tools, planters and seeders, hay and forage harvesters, electronic monitors and controllers. Computer-based analysis of equipment sizing and systems selection.

ASM 22200 Crop Production Equipment

Crop Production Equipment

Principles of materials handling and processing. Physical properties and characteristics of food, fiber, and feed materials as related to harvesting, handling, processing, and storage. Processing of agricultural materials including drying, preservation, size reduction (e.g. grinding, crushing, shredding), mixing and blending, refrigeration, extrusion, and pelleting. Conveying and transport systems with consideration of their effects on damage and quality. The course elements are tied together by a treatment of scheduling and coordination of biologically based systems, which involve production, handling, quality control, and processing. Typically offered Spring.

ASM 24500 Materials Handling And Processing

Materials Handling And Processing

Designed for specialized topic areas for which there is no specific course, but have enough student interest to justify formalized teaching of an undergraduate-level course. The course may be repeated by a student as long as the topic being taught is not repeated. The special topic that is offered will be indicated on the student's record. Permission of instructor is required.

ASM 29100 Adv Auto Spreadsheets Data

Adv Auto Spreadsheets Data

Principles of facility (system) planning and management involving buildings, equipment, and materials handling and flow. Student teams select a case firm (problem) with instructor approval. Principles learned week by week are applied to the development of an overall plan for the complex, over the course of the semester. Case examples can include firms handling supplies, seeds, grains, feeds, chemicals, wastes, and farm produce, as well as farming operations producing grain, forage, and/or livestock products. Students will learn to use AutoCAD to develop drawings, without prior computer drafting experience. Typically offered Spring.

ASM 33300 Facilities Planning And Management

Facilities Planning And Management

An introduction to power generation and transfer in mechanical and fluid power systems. Internal combustion engines, fuels, and cycles are introduced. Clutches, mechanical transmissions, automatic transmissions, hydrostatic transmissions, and final drives are discussed. Principles of hydraulics, fluids, cylinders, pumps, motors, valves, hoses, filters, reservoirs, and accumulators are studied. Typically offered Fall.

ASM 34500 Power Units And Power Trains

Power Units And Power Trains

An overview of the agricultural safety movement in the United States with consideration given to the specific human environmental and technological factors influencing farm-related accidents. Special emphasis is given to reduction of unnecessary risks in agricultural production.  Course meets during weeks 1-8. Typically offered Spring.

ASM 35000 Safety In Agriculture

Safety In Agriculture

Utilized to record credits earned through participation in Purdue study abroad programs with cooperating foreign universities.

ASM 40000 ASM Study Abroad

ASM Study Abroad

Fundamentals and application of electric power for agricultural facilities; safe wiring principles; operation and performance characteristics of electric motors; applications of control systems that include monitors, sensors, relays, and programmable logic controllers. Typically offered Spring.

ASM 42000 Electric Power And Controls

Electric Power And Controls

Professional attitudes and ethics, resume preparation and interview procedures, business correspondence, meetings, and career planning.

ASM 42100 Senior Seminar

Senior Seminar

The course examines technologies and techniques associated with modern farming practices often referred to in general as precision agriculture. It is structured to center around expert presentations from industry, academia, and farming practice, with a focus on technologies and appropriate application of such technologies in crop production systems in the Eastern Cornbelt.  Consent of instructor required.  Typically offered Spring.

ASM 42200 Advanced Machine Technology For Agricultural Crop Production

Advanced Machine Technology For Agricultural Crop Production

This course introduces the manufacture and assembly of machined piece parts into a functional assembly. The creation of a prototype internal combustion engine will be utilized as the base project for the course, and students will create and test the parts and final assembly. Students will be given a background on the process flow of modern manufacturing by general metal machining processes, manual machine tool operation, digital machine tool programming, numerical machine tool operation, the measurement of critical machining output variables, and the assembly of piece parts into subassemblies and final products. Course participants will work as a team to develop their production parts, final presentation, and final report.

ASM 44400 Design And Advanced Manufacturing Processes For Internal Combustion Engines

Design And Advanced Manufacturing Processes For Internal Combustion Engines

Assignment by consent of instructor in the field of selected study. Laboratory, field, and library studies and reports on special problems related to agricultural systems management not covered in regular coursework. A written report and oral presentation of final results is required. Permission of instructor required.

ASM 49000 Tractor Safety Demonstration

Tractor Safety Demonstration

ASM 49000 Special Problems

Special Problems

Designed for specialized topic areas for which there is no specific course, but have enough student interest to justify formalized teaching of an undergraduate-level course. The course may be repeated by a student as long as the topic being taught is not repeated. The specific topic that is offered will be indicated on the student's record. Permission of instructor required.

ASM 49100 Mthds Of Tching Ag Technology

Mthds Of Tching Ag Technology

ASM 49100 Special Topics

Special Topics

ASM 49100 Envir Ctrl Confined Anim Hous

Envir Ctrl Confined Anim Hous

Review of topics relevant to project planning and execution in industry, including technical communication, budgeting, team management, intellectual property rights, contracts and timelines. Students will select a Capstone project and assemble a project proposal within a team environment.

ASM 49400 Project Planning And Management

Project Planning And Management

Students implement, test, refine, present, and deliver the capstone project solution proposed in ASM 49400. Team based projects are completed during the semester and documented with a written report, poster presentation, and oral presentations. Projects encompass a broad range of topics within agricultural systems management.

ASM 49500 Agricultural Systems Management Capstone Project

Agricultural Systems Management Capstone Project

Topics relevant to project planning and execution in industry, including technical communication, budgeting, team management, intellectual property, and timelines. Students will develop a project proposal to address contemporary issues in agricultural systems management and complete that plan related to contemporary issues in agricultural systems management. Permission of instructor required.

ASM 49600 Project Planning And Capstone Project

Project Planning And Capstone Project

This course is designed primarily for students majoring in agricultural education, extension education, agricultural systems management, and agricultural engineering. Permission of instructor required.

ASM 49800 Directed Experience In Teaching Mechanized Agriculture

Directed Experience In Teaching Mechanized Agriculture

Prepares individuals for management and loss control positions in agricultural production, agribusiness operations, and emergency management agencies. Addresses prevention, preparation, mitigation, response, and recovery from disasters such as fires, explosions, entrapments, tornadoes, floods, winter storms, earthquakes, vandalism, chemical releases, and bio-terrorism. Students complete a community service learning activity, in which they assist a farm or agribusiness manager in developing formal emergency preparedness plans.

ASM 51000 Agrosecurity-Emergency Management For Agricultural Production Operations

Agrosecurity-Emergency Management For Agricultural Production Operations

An interdisciplinary course addressing prevention, mitigation, preparation, response, and recovery from catastrophic events that threaten private and public sector resources and infrastructures. Course contents will include: characteristics of security; personal/corporate perspectives; identification of assets; assessing cost/benefits of protecting assets; risk assessment and risk management; crisis decision making; emergency management resources and response infrastructures; best practices in emergency management and risk and crisis communication; business continuity; and the importance of a collaborative response. Case studies include the 9-11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina. External experts will present and career opportunities will be discussed.

ASM 51100 Foundations In Homeland Security Studies

Foundations In Homeland Security Studies

An interdisciplinary course providing examples and practice in applying and managing the resources, including technologies, used in the private and public sectors for homeland security programs. Course contents will include: terrorism; corporate security; biosecurity; health care preparedness; personal/community preparedness; risk transfer; and information security and privacy. Additional content includes discussion of local, state, and federal preparedness programs issues in the public/private sectors that are designed to ensure survival during a continuum of emergency events, and continued practice in using collaborative application of team building skills. Permission of instructor required.

ASM 51200 Managing Resources and Applications for Homeland Security

Managing Resources and Applications for Homeland Security

Management and selection of farm machines and power units with emphasis on cost analysis and evaluation of new machines and practices.

ASM 53000 Power And Machinery Management

Power And Machinery Management

We will overview current and emerging digital technologies with applications in agriculture, environment, and food systems. Students are expected to have a minimal computing and/or programming background, and those with no programming background should contact the instructor for guidance. Through a modular hands-on course design, students will incrementally learn user-centered technology design skills, computational thinking skills to evaluate, design, conceptualize, and implement informatics solutions to data-driven challenges. Students will gain programming skills in current data science and web development technology stacks (Python, HTML, CSS, SQL, Django), and design an informatics solution to problem in their own area of interest. This course supports professional development for students in pursuit of careers in digital product design or data-driven research.

ASM 53200 Introduction To Agricultural Informatics

Introduction To Agricultural Informatics

Fundamentals of GIS analysis applied to environmental, agricultural, and engineering-related problems. Topics include data sources, spatial analysis; projections; creating data and metadata, and conceptualizing and solving spatial problems using GIS.

ASM 54000 Geographic Information System Application

Geographic Information System Application

Crop drying and storage principles including equilibrium moisture, psychrometrics, and drying rates. Modern drying and conditioning techniques including dryeration, in-bin counterflow drying, and combination drying. Estimating fixed and variable drying costs, aeration of stored grain, and maintenance of grain quality.  Offered in even-numbered years.  Typically offered Spring.

ASM 55000 Grain Drying And Storage

Grain Drying And Storage

Assignment by consent of the instructor in the field of selected study. Laboratory, field, and library studies and reports on special problems related to agricultural systems management not covered in regular coursework. Permission of instructor required.

ASM 59000 Material Handling I

Material Handling I

ASM 59000 IN Watershed Leadership Acad

IN Watershed Leadership Acad

ASM 59000 Intro To Grain Operations

Intro To Grain Operations

ASM 59000 Grain Drying

Grain Drying

ASM 59000 Grain Receiving, Cleaning

Grain Receiving, Cleaning

ASM 59000 Grain Aeration

Grain Aeration

ASM 59000 Grain Entrapment

Grain Entrapment

ASM 59000 Prev&Resp To Grain Dust Expl

Prev&Resp To Grain Dust Expl

ASM 59000 Advanced And Preventative Main

Advanced And Preventative Main

ASM 59000 Mgmt Basics For Grain Fac Su

Mgmt Basics For Grain Fac Su

ASM 59000 GEAPS Grain Drying

GEAPS Grain Drying

ASM 59000 OSHA Safety And Ergonomics

OSHA Safety And Ergonomics

ASM 59000 Grain Elev Equip Maint

Grain Elev Equip Maint

ASM 59000 Grain Fac Planning & Design I

Grain Fac Planning & Design I

ASM 59000 Anlys/Mdl/Cntrl Warmg Pad Data

Anlys/Mdl/Cntrl Warmg Pad Data

ASM 59000 Adv And Pre Maintenance

Adv And Pre Maintenance

ASM 59000 Materials Handling II

Materials Handling II

ASM 59000 Elect Safety And Process Fac

Elect Safety And Process Fac

ASM 59000 Grain Fac Plan And Design I

Grain Fac Plan And Design I

ASM 59000 FGIS

FGIS

ASM 59000 GEAPS

GEAPS

ASM 59000 Associate Safety Certification

Associate Safety Certification

ASM 59000 Entry Level Safety

Entry Level Safety

ASM 59000 Special Problems

Primarily designed for specialized topic areas in agricultural systems management for which there is no specific course, workshop, or individual study plan, but having enough student interest to justify the formalized teaching of a course. Permission of instructor required.

ASM 59100 Hands-On Introduction To AI

Hands-On Introduction To AI

ASM 59100 Intro To Ag Informatics

Intro To Ag Informatics

Primarily designed for specialized topic areas in agricultural systems management for which there is no specific course, workshop, or individual study plan, but having enough student interest to justify the formalized teaching of a course. Permission of instructor required. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.

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