Systems detailed syllabus for Agriculture Engineering (Agri) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Agri students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Agriculture Engineering 7th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Agri 7th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Open Elective-IV scheme and its subjects refer to Agri Open Elective-IV syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of systems is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
SYSTEM CONCEPTS Definition, classification, and characteristics of systems – Scope and steps in systems engineering – Need for systems approach to water resources and irrigation.
Unit II
LINEAR PROGRAMMING Introduction to operations research – Linear programming, problem formulation, graphical solution, solution by simplex method – Sensitivity analysis, application to design and operation of reservoir, single and multipurpose development plans – Irrigation water allocation- Cropping pattern optimization.
Unit III
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Unit IV
DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING Bellman’s optimality criteria, problem formulation and solutions – Application to design and operation of reservoirs, Single and multipurpose reservoir development plans – Applications in Irrigation management.
Unit V
OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES Integer and parametric linear programming – Applications to Irrigation water management- Goal programming models with applications.
Text Books:
- Vedula, S., and Majumdar, P.P. Water Resources Systems – Modeling Techniques and Analysis Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, Fifth reprint, 2010.
- Gupta, P.K., and Man Mohan, “Problems in Operations Research”, (Methods and Solutions), Sultan Chand and Sons, New Delhi, 1995.
Reference Books:
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Course Outcomes:
- Understand practical knowledge on specialized in different water resources and irrigation system.
- Apply the Linear programming for crop planning and scheduling .
- Apply the Dynamic Programming for reservoir release for irrigation management.
- Design a reservoir irrigation system simulation model for efficient water management
- To evaluate the application of optimization techniques used to address the socio-technical aspects irrigation water management.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Agriculture Engineering 7th Sem, visit Agri 7th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Agriculture Engineering results, visit Anna University Agri all semester results direct link.