The Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, CAET, Godhra is a leading Department of CAET, Godhra under the Anand Agricultural university Anand Functioning since 2008, Departmental team members delivering quality education to UG & PG students pertaining to FMPE as well as involved in quality research by keeping pace with the changing needs of Agricultural education, Indian tractor and other agricultural machinery as well as farm mechanization. Under this department, students will be given an exposure for using, handling and managing all machineries related to farm like plough, harrow, cultivator, thresher, combine harvester and power sources like tractor, power tiller, oil engine etc. Besides these, research works for agricultural machineries, hand tools, power sources etc. will also be a part of this department.

Departmental Facilities:

Department is enriched with almost all instruments and machineries required to conduct the practicals as per UG/PG syllabus. Different labs and facility available are

• Experiences and highly qualified teachers to conduct research mainly in farm machinery, specially for the main crops of this region like Maize, Potato etc
• Common study room
• Farm Power lab
• Farm machinery lab
• Ergonomic lab
• Thermodynamic & IC engine lab
• CAD/CAM lab
• Basic Mechanical lab
• Workshop
• Drawing hall
• Implement shed
• Sufficient land to conduct research experiments

Achivements:

• In last 08 years, this Department has come up with 05 recommendations which will be beneficial for farmer for improvement in mechanization status.
• Now Department Offering Ph.D, M.Tech programs with Regular U.G. program
• No. of equipments/tools are supplied to various farmers in the state under the project “Developing model village and farm mechanization
• Active participation in Training programme, demonstrations are being organized to increase awareness of mechanization.
• Department has also come up with a Vocational course related to farm machinery.