Agricultural Engineer

36501 Hidrology
36502 Animal Production Systems
36503 Evaluation of Agricultural Projects
36600 Work end of Career

Contents: Drainage. Management of hydraulic resources.

Contents: Animal production.

Contents: Financial and economic valuation of agricultural investments. Rules and practical cases of projects valuation in agro-food system.

Objectives: The main objetive of this subject is focused on the theoretical and practical presentation of current tools used by diferent kinds of decisors in the valuation of agricultural projects.

Work end of career 36600
Compulsory 5 credits 2nd. Semester

Contents: Development of work or project related to Agricultural Engineer

36506 Planning and management of cattle operations
36508 Milk Farm Technology
36510 Livestock manure management 36510
36513 Soil Classification and Valuation
36518 Use of Renewable Energy
36520 Farm Mechanization and Horticole Centers
36523 Agricultural Policy
36529 Agro-food Marketing
36533 Agro-food Industries Design
36536 Rural Tracks, Dams and Ponds
36537 Enologic Engineering
36543 Agricultural Entomology
36545 Herbaceous Crops
36546 Horticulture
36555 Feeding and Rationing

Contents: New cattle perspective. Microzootecnia. Extensificación

Dept: Agricultural Production
Staff: Mendizábal Aizpuru, José Antonio
Assessment: Writen Exam

Milk Farm Technology 36508
Optional 5 credits 2nd Semester

Contents: Suitability valuation of mechanic milking. Relationship between the animal and the milking machine. Distribution of cattle foods. Cattle installations.

Dept: Agricultural Production
Staff: Purroy Unanua, Antonio
Assessment: Written exam

Livestock manure management 36510
Optional 5 credits 2nd Semester

Contents: Storage, distribution and treatment of manure.

Dept: Agricultural Production
Staff: Beatriz Soret
Assessment: Written exam

Soil Classification and Valuation 36513
Optional 5 credits 2nd Semester

Contents: Soil classification: Soil taxonomy and FAO Legend. Soil survey. Methods of land evaluation for Agriculture (irrigation, fertility and management) and Environmental studies.

Dept: Environmental Sciences
Staff: Bescansa Miquel, Paloma / Arricibita Videgan, Fco Javier/ Del Valle de Lersundi, Joaquin
Assessment: Written exam, field and laboratory work

Use of Renewable energy 36518
Optional 5 credits 2nd Semester

Contents: Electric energy generation in farms and agricultural industries by the use of solar energy and wind power in the biomass. Cogeneration.

Dept: Projects and Rural Engineering
Staff: Torres Escribano, José Luis
Assessment: Written exam

Farm Mechanization and Horticole Centers 36520
Optional 5 credits 1st. Semester

Contents: Harvesting and conservation of forages. Milk machinery, excrements handling, preparation and distribution of foods. Mechanization of horticole growing.

Dept: Projects and Rural Engineering
Staff: Jarén Ceballos, Carmen
Assessment: Written exam and Paper work

Agricultural Policy 36523
Optional 7 credits 1st Semester

Contents: Analysis of reasons of agricultural policy and its consequences on agricultural sector. Objectives and tools of state intervention in this sector. Community Agricultural Policy. Land reform of P.A.C.

Dept: Business Management
Staff: Aldanondo Ochoa, Ana
Assessment: Written exam

Agro-food Marketing 36529
Optional 5 credits 2nd Semester

Contents: Fundamentals and strategies of agro-food marketing. Strategic and tactical variables. Marketing - mix. Analysis of marketing variables in agro-food business. Merchandising. Direct marketing.

Objectives: The global orientation of this subject is strategic, it tries to complete the management attitude from the compulsory subject (Agro-food Commercialization). The students have to get a basic knowledge of the decisions related with the Commercial Management, specially from a business orientation in the long term.

Dept: Business Management
Staff: Sánchez García, Mª Mercedes
Assessment: Written exam

Agro-food Industries Design 36533
Optional 9,5 credits Full year

Contents: Way to face the design. Information and documentation handling. Options analysis. Experimentation in pilot plant.

Dept: Applied Chemistry
Staff: Casp Vanaclocha, Ana
Assessment: Written exam

Rural Tracks, Dams and Ponds 36536
Optional 6 credits 1st Semester

Contents: Previous studies, layout and definition of plant and elevation. Cross-section. Earth movement. Design of roadbed thickness and stabilization. Design of dams from saparate materials. Analysis of intersticial pressures. Design of overflow chanel. Calculus by computer.

Dept: Projects and Rural Engineering
Staff: Ramírez Chasco, Francisco de Asís
Assessment: Written exam

Enologic Engineering 36537
Optional 5 credits 2nd Semester

Contents: Mechanic equipment on wine industries. Rational implantation of wine instalations.

Dept: Applied Chemistry
Staff: Marín Arroyo, Remedios
Assessment: Written exam

Agricultural Entomology 36543
Optional 5 credits 1st Semester

Contents: Morphology and physiology of insects. Interaction with plants - plant-eating. Biology and damages of plant-eating species. Struggle methods against plant-eatings.

Dept: Agricultural Production
Staff: Caballero Murillo, Primitivo
Assessment: Written exam

Herbaceous Crops 36545
Optional 5 credits 2nd Semester

Contents: Production techniques of cereals, grain legumes and industrial plants.

Dept: Agricultural Production
Staff: Baroja Fernández, Edurne
Assessment: Written exam

Horticulture 36546
Optional 7 credits Full year

Contents: Climate and soil in Horticulture: control and managing. Culture techniques. Harvesting and post-harvesting. Production of horticultural crops.

Objectives: Study of techniques used in horticultural production.

Dept: Agricultural Production
Staff: Mingo Castel, Angel
Assessment: Written exam

Feeding and Rationing 36555
Optional 7 credits 2nd. Semester

Contents: Energetic and protean feeding. Food. Rationing.

Dept: Agricultural Production
Staff: Purroy Unanua, Antonio
Assessment: Written exam