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Teaching Materials for a Gin Operations Course was developed by Dr. Brock Faulkner, Assistant Professor at Texas A & M University, who has taught the course for seven years as of 2014. Topics include cotton classification, seed cotton handling, air management, airflow measurement, principles of ginning equipment, cottonseed, pollution control, gin safety, auger conveyors, gin management, and gin economic analysis. Students, instructors, and other interested people can access the lecture material, PowerPoint presentations, and videos here via the ASABE Technical Library. Instructors, please email publications@asabe.org for a packet of homework, labs, and exam materials.