About Agricultural and Environmental Engineering Department

The Department of Agricultural Engineering was established in 2001/2002 session. The Department began academic activities with fifteen (15) undergraduate students and three (3) members of staff. The Senate of the Bayero University, Kano-Nigeria approved the change of the departmental name from agricultural engineering to agricultural and environmental engineering in its 345th meeting of July, 2016. The Department of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering is a medium size Department with experienced teaching and non-teaching staff, offering undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes. Teaching is strongly informed by research, particularly in the final year where specialist options are taught. Research activities in the Department cover all the mainstream fields of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering, organised into groups: farm power, machinery and automation, soil and water conservation engineering, food processing and storage engineering. The aim of establishing the Department was to meet the growing need for manpower in the profession. The main objective was to train and produce Engineers with the required qualities and capabilities to meet the increasing need for professional Engineers in the country. In order to produce intellectual and practical people who can combine their skills to create safe and economic designs which must be environmentally and socially acceptable to the society in which we live, the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering ensures that in addition to sound theoretical background students are thoroughly exposed to extensive and relevant laboratory experimentation andexercises Presently, the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering has graduated twelve (12) sets of students from 2007/2008 to 2018/2019.