Brief Biodata of Dr. M. Veerangouda,Dean (Ag. Engg.), College of Agricultural Engineering

              Dr. M. Veerangouda, presently the Dean(Ag.Engg.) of the College of agricultural Engineering of UAS, Raichur, has completed his Master’s and Doctoral Degree from TNAU, Coimbatore with a specialization in the field of Farm Power and Machinery. He has put up a total of more than thirty two years of service in the college and in the field of agricultural engineering and specifically in the field of farm machinery and power engineering. During his service period he has worked under different capacities right from assistant professor, associate professor, professor, head of the department up to the dean of the college. He has put up more than ten years of service as the head of the department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering including the university level headship. He has guided more than fifteen masters and eight doctoral students under his chairmanship. He has handled more than twenty research projects which have been funded by ICAR, GoI, GoK and also Institutional. There are more than thirty five technologies developed and popularized under his leadership and collaborative projects. He has more than hundred publications which comprise of research papers and abstracts published in reputed national and international journals, research and technical bulletins, popular articles, extension literatures etc. He has attended a number of national and international conferences and presented the research findings. He has given a number of TV and radio programmes for propagating the important agricultural engineering technologies to the farming community. He has also been conferred with a number of national and international awards for the contributions in the field of farm machinery and power engineering. He is also a member of the different professional bodies like, The Institution of Engineers (India), The Indian Society of Agricultural Engineers, Karnataka Agricultural Engineers Association etc. 

1. Faculties (Name, Specialization, Contact Number) and Office Staff:

2. Teaching:

At presently the College of Agricultural Engineering, Raichur is offering following degree programmes:

3. Practical Learning Opportunities:

Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering

• Workshop practices in the trade of Carpentry, fitting, foundry, welding, machine shop and smithy etc.
• Determination of fuel and oil properties.
• Study of various systems of internal combustion engines
• Operation and maintenance of various systems of agricultural tractor.
• Operation and maintenance of tillage implements, sowing equipments, weeding equipments, plant protection equipments, harvesting and harrowing equipments, special machineries, precision farm equipments etc.
• Ergonomic evaluation of farm equipment.
• Laboratory and field testing of agricultural machineries as per BIS standards.
• Mechatronics
• Prototype manufacturing methods and techniques.

Department of Renewable Energy Engineering

• Different solar gadgets / devices /instruments.
• Biogas model plants and working systems.
• Biogas quality and quantity measuring instruments.
• Biomass based gadgets / devices / systems like gasifiers and briquetting machines.
• Electrical Engineering related instruments / devices (Motors and generators).
• Instruments used for determination of fuel properties.
• Renewable energy park equipped with different renewable energy systems.
• Instrumentation Engineering: Instrumentation for determination of various physical / electrical qualities.

Department of Soil and Water Conservation Engineering

• Surveying and leveling techniques for land area measurement, topographical survey and agricultural land and water management.
• Soil textural analysis and engineering properties of soils.
• Testing of strength of materials.
• Learning opportunities in watershed planning and management techniques.
• Learning opportunities in hydrology and its applications.
• Soil conservation measures for dry-land agriculture.
• Water harvesting and recharging techniques.
• Runoff and soil loss measurement techniques.
• Soft computing techniques in hydrology and soil conservation.
• Remote sensing and GIS software usage and application.

Department of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering

• Irrigation water measuring devices.
• Soil moisture measuring techniques.
• Operation and maintenance of water lifting devices.
• Testing of irrigation water quality.
• Surveying and levelling techniques for land and water management.
• Drainage investigations for diagnosis of problematic soils and measures for reclamation.
• Micro irrigation system planning, operation and maintenance.
• Testing of Irrigation and Drainage materials strength and quality.
• Laboratory calibration of various water measuring instruments and their usage in fields.
• Application of soft computing techniques in the field of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering.

Department of Processing and Food Engineering

• Agro-Processing centre for cereals, pulses and millets: cleaning, grading and milling – Operation and maintenance of machineries.
• Millet based bakery unit for training and preparation of bakery products – Bread, Cookies, cakes, muffins, dil pasand, puffs and rusks.
• Production of value added products from fruits and vegetables – Jam, juice, pulp, sauce, pickles and chips.
• Preparation of value added products from milk – Paneer, Khova and flavoured milk.
• Cold storage for perishables – Operation and maintenance of cold storage unit.
• Full fledged laboratory facilities for – Estimation of protein, fat, fibre and minerals. Textural and rheological properties of agricultural / food materials. Facility for modified / vacuum packaging.
• Facilities for developing extruded products.
• Drying and dehydration of agricultural produce – Tray dryer, solar tunnel dryer, fluidized bed dryer, radio frequency dryer, de-humidified dryer and spray dryers (lab models).
• Super critical fluid extraction unit for extraction of bioactive compounds (lab model).
• Facility for mineral water production.
• Processing and value addition technology for medicinal plants.
• Processing of spices using pulveriser, grinder and pounding equipments.
• Storage and packaging techniques for different food grains, fruits and vegetables.

4. Hands on training / Experiential Learning:

As per V – Dean’s Committee Syllabus, B. Tech. (Ag.Engg.)students have to undergo SRY – 403 ( 0+10 ) – The 10 weeks Experiential Learning on campus (Student READY). Presently, there is one Experiential Learning Unit in the Department of Processing and Food Engineering.

Experiential Learning Unit

1. Processing and Value Addition Technology.

Two Modules:

1. Agro-processing of cereals, pulses and oil seeds.
2. Processing and value addition of fruits, vegetables, milk and fish

5. Student READY Programme:

As per V-Deans’ Committee syllabus, the following courses are recommended for B.Tech. (Agricultural Engineering) under Student Ready programme.

6. Facilities and Amenities –Library, Wi-Fi Facilities, Labs, Smart Lecture Halls, Guest House, Play Ground, NSS, Achievement of students in academics, Sports and other co-curriculum activities:

Library and Wi-Fi Facilities:

        The library is a basic need of every educational and research institute. The College of Agricultural Engineering as the constituent college of UAS, Raichur has the advantage of Central Library established in the main campus. The library has state-of-art facilities for the benefit of students and staff of the college as well. The library has sufficient seating capacity to the visiting students and staff. It is equipped with more than 80 computers (LAN connected) established in a separate computer section to access the e-resources with high speed internet facility along with printers. The library is facilitated with a strong security system and is being monitored with CCTV cameras and internet services are made available for the students and staff.

Important Laboratories:

Smart Lecture Halls:

The college has four independent classrooms exclusively for conducting theory classes to the students of B.Tech. programme. All the class rooms are equipped with interactive boards with speaker facility. The teachers deliver their lectures through PPT presentation with relevant sketches / drawings / videos / animations along with black board and chalk piece. The students are also given exercises to prepare the assignments using the facility so as to get augmented with the latest technology. The major departments also have independent instructional classrooms in their workshop / laboratories with interactive board facility. The objective, materials required and procedure to be followed for respective practicals are discussed in the instruction classroom before conducting the experiment.

NSS:

In the College of Agricultural Engineering, Raichur, there are two NSS units (Unit – 1 and Unit -2) comprising of 100 students each. The following activities are carried out every year by both the NSS units:

Achievements of students:

Academics:

Many of the students of the college due to their hard work and very good coaching from the senior faculty have attempted National Examinations namely Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) and ICAR Junior Research Fellow (JRF) and ASRB-NET,  and recruited as ARS Scientists some have achieved a very good success with higher ranking.

During the last five academic years the following examinations were cracked by the students of CAE, Raichur:

• 25 students grabbed ICAR-JRF ranks
• 15 students qualified GATE examination
• 40 students qualified NET examination
• 03 students qualified ARS
• About 50 percent of the students have opted for higher education
• 02 PhD Students got DST fellowship/scholarship
• 03 M.Tech and 03 PhD students got UGC fellowship/scholarship
• 01 PhD Student got ICAR-SRF fellowship/scholarship
• 02 Tech Students got IFE fellowship/scholarship
• 01 Student bagged FIRST prize in the MANTHAN-2014
• 02 Students bagged FIRST and SECOND prize in the MANTHAN-2017
• 01 Student bagged FIRST prize in the MANTHAN-2018

Placements of the students of CAE Raichur in the last five years:

• 25 students in Govt. sector
• 100 students in Private Companies
• 25 students in other sectors
• 05 students as Entrepreneur

Sports:

During the last five academic years the B.Tech. (Ag. Engg.) students  grabbed  various prizes in sports events :

• CAE, Raichur Athletic Team (M) won the overall championship (M) in the IV UAS Inter Collegiate Athletic Meet-2013 at UAS, Raichur campus
• CAE, Raichur item won the Trophy of Table Tennis tournament -2015 at AC, Bheemarayanagudi.
• CAE, Raichur team won the Trophy of Football UAS Inter-Collegiate tournament -2015 at UAS, Raichur.
• CAE, Raichur Kabaddi team winners in the UAS Inter Collegiate-2015 at Raichur Campus.
• CAE, Raichur Women Athletic team bagged the Women Championship in the VIII UAS Inter Collegiate Athletic meet - 2017 at Raichur Campus.
• CAE, Raichur women Table Tennis team secured the Runner-up in the UAS Inter Collegiate Table Tennis women tournament-2017 at Raichur Campus.
• CAE, Raichur men Basketball team secured the Runner-up in the UAS Inter Collegiate Basketball tournament on -2017 at Raichur Campus.
• CAE, Raichur Men Athletic team bagged the Men Championship in VIII UAS Inter Collegiate Athletic meet-2017 at Raichur Campus.
• CAE, Raichur secured Women individual Championship at the VIII UAS I/C Athletic meet - 2017 at AC, Raichur.
• CAE, Raichur bagged thirteen University Blue in inter colligate sports meet conducted in 2018.
• CAE, Raichur bagged eighteen University Blue in inter colligate sports meet conducted in 2019.
• CAE Raichur bagged Overall Champions Men in IX Athletic Meet 2019 of  Inter-Campus Sports conducted at Agriculture College, Kalaburgi.

The College of Agricultural Engineering students bagged the following prizes in All India Agri. University Sports Meet 2018

• Athletics 4x100 meters relay                             –          Bronze medal
• 110M Hurdles             –          Bronze medal
• 100 meters running                                          –          Gold medal
• 200 meters running                                          -           Gold medal
• 4 x100 meters relay running                              –          Bronze medal (2 No)

Cultural and other co-curricular activities:

• CAE, Raichur secured Silver Medal in Cartooning in the 15^th ICAR ‘AGRIUNIFEST’ at NDRI, Karnal (Haryana) for the year 2014.
• CAE, Raichur secured Bronze Medal in Quiz in the 19^th ICAR ‘AGRIUNIFEST’ at Tirupati for the year 2019.

Contact Address

Dean (Ag. Engg.)

College of Agricultural Engineering

University of Agricultural Sciences

Raichur-584 104 (Karnataka)

Phone No: 08532-220079

Mobile: 9480696310

E-mail: deancaer@uasraichur.edu.in