Function of Department

The Department of Agricultural & Manufacturing Engineering is one of the departments within the School of Engineering & Construction Studies and supports the mission of the Institute and the School.  

Services Provided

• Develops and delivers higher education courses in Agricultural and Manufacturing engineering
• Provides tuition in engineering subjects to the School of Science & Computing and Business & Social Studies
• Assists applicants to the department and their advisors
• Seeks out, heeds and informs the needs and opinions of its stakeholders
• Encourages and facilitates research in agricultural and manufacturing engineering
• Promotes economic and social development
• Participates in skills shortage initiatives in the area of manufacturing technology and precision engineering
• Participates in part-time and alternative provision of education in co-operation with local manufacturing companies in the South-West
• Endeavours to raise public awareness of engineering and technology
• Plans and carries out its activities in accordance with health and safety procedures
• Carries out its activities in ways that contribute to the enhancement of (or minimise its impact on) the environment
• Strives continually to improve the standard of all its endeavours
• Contributes to the development and realisation of the Institute's strategic plan
• Develops and manages the resources allocated to it