Department of Agricultural Engineering

University of Agricultural Science (UAS) Bangalore is a Premier Agricultural University engaged in Teaching, Research and extension activities in various field of Agriculture science. The university main campus is situated on Bangalore Hyderabad National High Way about 12 km from Bangalore city. The college of Agricultural under UAS is offering Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D degrees, in various branch Agricultural science. The department of Agricultural Engineering is under the administrative control of college of Agriculture.

The Department of Agricultural Engineering offered B.Tech (Ag. Engg) programme of 8 duration. The dept is also offering two M.Tech. (Agri. Engg) degree programmes one each is Post Harvest process and Food Engineering and soil and water Conversation Engineering of four semesters duration. At present soil and water Conversation Engineering is temporarily suspended. In addition to this the dept. is offering 6 undergraduate courses for B.Sc (Agri.) and B.Sc (Ag Maco) programmes.

Courses Offered

The annul intake for B.Tech Degree programme is 25 students and for post graduate programmes is about 10-12 students. The total strength of the Dept. is about 125 students. The admissions are made as per UAS and State Government regulation.

Quality improvement progamme

Technical lecturers and seminars for the benefit of students.
Interaction with industries to identify thrust areas of research and placement training.
General aptitude improvement programmes.
Courses related technical projects through interaction with industries.
Special courses on advanced subject other than specified in curriculum.
As a part of the B.Tech. Curriculum students are trained in Southern Regional Farm Machinery Training and Testing
institute, Anantapur (AP), Various Agro processing Industries and Regional Soil Conservation Training Center, Bellary.

Contact:

Special Officer and Professor and Head to Professor
Department of Agricultural Engineering
University of Agricultural Sciences
GKVK, Campus, Bangalore – 560 065.

+91-080-23330153 Extn. 332

hod.agengg.uasb@gmail.com

cae@uasbangalore.edu.in

Faculty

Dr. B. C. Ravikumar

Professor & Head
M.Sc.(Agri.), Ph.D. Bio-Ag. Engg. KSU(USA), Grad. Certificate in GIS, KSU (USA)

Specialization:Watershed Modelling and Simulation, GIS and Remote Sensing application in Natural Resource Management

hod.agengg.uasb@gmail.com

cae@uasbangalore.edu.in

+91-080-23330153 Extn. 332

Dr. K. S. Rajashekarappa

Professor

Ph.D. in Soil and Water Conservation Engineering
M.Sc.(Agri.)Soil and Water Conservation Engineering

Specialization:Soil and Water Conservation Engineering

ksrajashekarappa@gmail.com
ksr@uasbangalore.edu.in

081-72221166
+91-9448668801

Dr. C. T. Ramachandra

Professor
Ph.D. (Engg.), IIT, Kharagpur
M.Tech. (Food Engg.), CCS HAU, Hisar
B.Tech. (Ag. Engg.), UAS, Dharwad
Post Doctoral Research at Centre for Advanced Food Technology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey,
New Brunswick, USA.

Specialization:Processing and Food Engineering Post Harvest Engineering and Technology Food Processing Operations- Modelling, Simulation and Analysis

ramachandra@uasbangalore.edu.in
ramachandract@gmail.com

http://sites.google.com/site/ramachandract

+91-9449627325

Dr.M. Manjunatha

Professor
Ph.D. in Agril. Engg (Agril. Processing & Structures), ICAR-IARI, New Delhi.
M.Tech. in Agril. Engg. (Agril. Processing & Food Engg.), CCS HAU, Hisar
B.Tech. in Agril Engg.,UAS, Bengaluru

Specialization:Agricultural Processing and Food Engineering, Design and Development of Food and dairy Equipments, Packaging, Nanocooling.

manjunatham@uasbangalore.edu.in
drmanjunatham9@yahoo.com

+91-7022779238

Dr.Premanand B. Dashavant

Associate Professor
Ph.D.(Engg.), UAS, Raichur.
M.Tech in Soil and Water Conservation Engineering, UAS, Dharwad.
B.Tech.(Agri. Engg.), UAS, Dharwad Higher training at Texas A and M University College station, Bryan, USA.

Specialization:Soil and Water Conservation Engineering. Hydrological Modelling in particular SWAT Modelling and its applications in Micro Watersheds.

premanand34@gmail.com

+91-9886927776

Er. Babu RM Ray

Assistant Professor
M.Sc.(Agril.Engg.), MIE

Specialization:Post Harvest Processing & Food Engineering.

baburmray@yahoo.com

+91-9341 447067

Dr. Murukannappa

Assistant Professor
M.Sc. (Agri.) in Soil and Water Engineering,
Ph.D. in Water Resource Engineering

Specialization:Soil and Water Conservation Engineering, Watershed Management, Resource Characterisation (Soil/Water)

murukannappasm@gmail.com
murukannappa@uasbangalore.edu.in

+91-9036943217

Dr. Viresj Kumar Gouda

Assistant Professor
M.Sc.(Agril. Engg.), Ph.D.

Specialization:Waste to Energy, Biogas, Bio-waste Utilization, Post harvest Engineering.

vkgouda@gmail.com

+91-99010 69131

Dr. Dronachari Manvi

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (Food Process Engineering)
M.Tech. (Post Harvest Process and Food Engineering)
B.Tech. (Agril. Engg.)

Specialization:Food Processing and Preservation, Microwave Energy in Food applications, Mathematical Modelling, Agricultural Structures, and Development of Low cost Machinery in Agriculture & Sericultural Mechanization.

dronmanvi@uasbangalore.edu.in
dron0321@gmail.com

+91-9901499071