The course “Transport, Handling and Manipulation Machinery” in engineering education
2014
Kic, P., Czech Univ. of Life Sciences, Prague (Czech Republic)
This paper is focused on the pedagogical approach in teaching of the course Transport, Handling and Manipulation Machinery in the frame of the study programs for students at the Faculty of Engineering of the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. These are mainly the following study programs: Technological equipment of buildings, Waste disposal technology and techniques, Agricultural machinery and Technology and Environmental Engineering. Machines and technical equipment in operations corresponding to these study fields are, e.g., agricultural harvesting machines and lines, post-harvest and processing lines, almost all of the major lines in the food industry, machinery and lines for waste treatment, etc. This article summarizes the teaching experience, which has been obtained in the years of teaching this technical course for 718 students during the last twenty years. This article highlights the main areas of this course which are adapted to the needs of various above-mentioned fields of study. There is emphasized particularly continuity of lectures, exercises and independent individual activities in the frame of study, including the knowledge obtained in operating practices. There are presented in this paper also the forms of assessment and verification of the students' knowledge and the exam results of Czech and foreign students.
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