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: 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: Systematic vegetable and nomenclatura of ls plants. Main families with agricultural species of interest: Characteristic generals, systematic and uses. Biology of bad grass, Interaction in cultures. Methods of control of bad grass. Chemical control of bad grass. Persistence of herbicides. Selectivity of herbicides. Bad grass and resistant cultures. Practices of control of bad grass and classification of plants

Objetives: to know the main plants agricultural interest, morphology, systematics and uses. To examine the different methods from control of bad grass and to analyze the chemical methods

Dept: Environmental Sciences
Staff: Royuela Hernando, Mercedes
Assessment: Writen Exam and work of practices

Contents: Phisicochemical and microbiological composition of raw material and their derived products. Changes and physicochemical, enzimatic and microbial alterations of foods during elaboration, processing and storing. Toxicological and hygienic aspects of food products. Analytical methods for the determination of chemical and microbiologial composition to evaluate food quality.

Objectives: To study in food products: Food components and their functional properties, Characteristics of the main food systems, Food changes and systems for food quality control.

Dept: Environmental Sciences
Staff: Torre Hernández, Paloma / Beriain Apesteguía, Mª José
Assessment: Written exam and Paper work