OPSC AAE Syllabus 2022 Assistant Agriculture Engineer Exam Pattern PDF

• Computer Programming and Data Structures
• Data types, operators
• Managing input & output, decision making
• Looping, arrays, branching
• Structures and unions
• Workshop practice and Workshop Technology
• Measuring tools
• Welding, drilling, tools, and functions
• Applied Electronics and Instrumentation
• Diodes, transistors, logic circuits
• Measurement of temperature, velocity
• Generalized instrumentation
• Transducer types and applications
• Common Statistical data on agriculture
• Statistics on Agriculture
• Land distribution pattern, landholding sizes
• Farm power availability, pump sets, and implements
• Units and dimensions
• Units and measurement, Relation between different groups and measurements
• Dimensional analysis
• Surveying and leveling
• Linear measurements
• Leveling and contouring
• Estimation of errors in measurement
• Building construction and cost estimation
• Building materials, agricultural structures
• Estimates of buildings and agricultural structures
• Design and maintenance of Greenhouse
• Types of a greenhouse, its components
• Applications, repair, and maintenance

• Farm Machinery
• Need for farm mechanization
• Seedbed preparation machinery, sub-soilers, cultivators
• Harrows, puddlers: their types, components
• Seeding and planting equipment, a metering mechanism for small and bold seeds
• Fertilizer application equipment, weeders
• Principles & types of cutting mechanisms
• Threshers, Cotton pickers
• Testing of farm machines.
• Farm Power
• Sources of farm power
• Engine systems
• IC engine fuels and lubricants
• Tractor systems and controls
• Transmission systems
• Mechanics of tractor chassis
• Tractor maintenance and troubleshooting
• Farm power and machinery management
• Role of farm mechanization in increasing production & productivity
• Performance analysis
• Cost analysis of farm machines
• Human engineering and safety
• Importance of human engineering in the design of farm machinery and workspace
• Ergonomic parameters for evaluation of workers
• Safety aspects of tractors and farm machinery
• Precision agriculture
• Concepts of precision agriculture
• Farm implements for precision agriculture
• Renewable energy engineering
• Technology and production process of bio-diesel and bio-ethanol
• Solar energy, solar photovoltaic system
• Wind energy conversion system
• Systems engineering
• Linear programming formulation and applications
• Transportation problems
• Project management by PERT/CPM
• Waiting line theory

• Engineering properties of food materials
• Importance of engineering properties of biological materials.
• Physical, thermal, frictional, and aerodynamic characteristics of grains
• Grain processing
• Cleaning and grading of food grains
• Size reduction
• Milling of rice
• Milling of wheat and corn
• Milling of pulses
• Milling of oilseeds
• Material handling equipment
• Drying and storage of crops
• Drying
• Storage of food grains
• Horticultural produce processing
• Fruits and vegetable processing
• Storage of fruits and vegetables
• Thermal processing
• Evaporation
• Freezing
• Food laws

Soil and Water Conservation Engineering

• Fluid Mechanics
• Properties of fluids
• Pressure and its measurement, pascal’s law
• Kinematics of fluid flow
• Dynamics of fluid flow
• Dimensional analysis
• Irrigation Engineering
• Major, medium, and minor irrigation projects
• Sources of irrigation water
• Land grading
• Soil water plant relationship, soil moisture constants
• Surface irrigation methods of water application
• Basic concepts of command area – definition
• Types and components of micro-irrigation system
• Drainage Engineering
• Drainage, surface drainage.
• Subsurface drainage purpose and benefits
• Design of surface drainage system
• Salt balance
• Groundwater, wells, and pumps
• Occurrence and movement of groundwater
• Well Hydraulics, multiple well systems
• Tube well design
• Quality of groundwater
• Pumping Systems
• Hydrology
• Hydrologic cycle
• Geomorphology of watersheds
• Runoff-factors affecting, Curve number method
• Headwater flood control
• Flood routing- graphical methods of reservoir flood routing
• Soil, water conservation Engineering, and Watershed management
• Soil erosion
• Erosion control measures
• Water erosion
• Sedimentation
• Land use capability classification
• Grassed waterways and their design
• Introduction to water harvesting techniques
• Small earth embankments
• Watershed management