Agricultural Engineer

Contents: The concepts of organization of basic companies will study and that will be complemented with tools in other matters. Concretely: concept of company, industralist, surroundings of company, types of companies, strategies and theory of decision

Dept: Managemnt of companies
Staff: simón elorz, Katrin / Sanjuan López, Ana
Assessment: Writen exam and paper work

Contents: Rural electrification. Agrarian mechanization. Agro-industrial constructions. Earth works.

Contents: Animal biology. Animal physiology.

Contents: Genetics and breeding.

Contents: Envioronmental biophysics. Soil fertility. Crop systems.

Contents: Crop protection.

Dept: Agricultural Production 
Staff: Murillo Martínez, Jesús María
Assessment: Written exam

Contents: Plants propagation and multiplication. Nurseries. Fundamentals of woody plants growing.

Contents: Introductory ideas. Phisical first notions of Teledetection. Spacial systems of Teledetection. Basis for imagen interpretation. Visual analysis of images. Digital treatment of images. Results verification. Teledetection and necessity of Geographical Information Systems. Storage, data organization, analysis and transformations. Applications.

Contents: Mechanic description: limits. Mechanic classification. Consolidation. Cutting stress. Filtration meshes. Slides. Side trust. Carrying capacity. Slope stability. Soil compacting by agricultural machinary action.

Contents: Sampling. Randomization. Blocks. Treatment structure. Design structure. Analysis of variance. Random and fixed effects. Estimation, validation of designs. Comparing treatment means. Orthogonal contrasts. Unifactorial experiments. Completly ramdomized block design. Latin squares, graecolatin square design. Multifactorial models. Hierarchical design. Split-plot and Split-Split-plot. Fractional Factorial Design. Quality control.

Objectives: To learn the basic concepts of sampling, design of experiments and quality control. The course is focused on practical questions and it is done with S-Plus software.

Contents: Details of ingineerical designs, equipment selection and auxilary systems.

Contents: Application of biological processes to optimitation of product elaboration costs and reduction of chemical agents utilization in agro-food industries.

Contents: Photosysthesis and plant resource allocation. Mineral nutrition and assimilation. Water relations. Secondary metabolism. Growth and development. Environmental physiology.

Objectives: Understanding plant functioning. To determine plant need for developmental maximizing. To understand plant responses to the envionment.

Contents: Systematics and nomenglature of cultivated plants. Herbarium techniques. Origin and domestication of cultivated plants. Etnobotany and conservation of phytogenetic resources. Main plant families with species of agricultural interest: general characteristics, systematics and uses.

Objectives: To know the bases of botanical nomenglature and to learn to identify plants. To know the main cultivated plants: their origin, domestication processes, morphology, systematics and uses.