Master's Degree in Agricultural Engineering

The Master's Degree in Agricultural Engineering enables students to project, plan, organize, manage and control:

• The necessary infrastructure and facilities on a farm or in an agrifood industry,
• the production systems and processes developed in the agrifood sector,
• from sustainability, protecting and conserving the environment and improving the rural environment.

We train you in:

• design and calculation of infrastructures and facilities
• farm management
• food security
• sustainable economic development
• energy crisis
• and conservation of the environment

The Master's Degree in Agricultural Engineering has been recognized with the EUR-ACE® European quality certificate for engineering. 

Access to the master's degree is direct for students who have the degree of:

• Agricultural Technical Engineer
• Agricultural, Food and Rural Environment Engineering

Other degrees:  provided that it is proved that at least the modules of Basic Training and Common Training of the Agricultural Branch have been completed, and at least 48 ECTS of the module of Specific Technology, defined by the Order CIN 323/2009, of 9 February, and that the previous training complements that the ETSIAB considers convenient to acquire the minimum competencies have been completed.

• Engineering and Agronomic Science
• Agricultural Engineering
• Food Engineering
• Agro-Environmental Engineering
• Any other degree that grants attributions in the different specialties of the profession of agricultural technical engineer.

• Project and process engineering: planning, organization, management and control of production systems and processes in the agricultural sector and the agro-food industry; design, projection and execution of infrastructure works, buildings, facilities and equipment.
• Land use planning and environment: environmental impact assessment, environmental audits, sustainable agriculture, hydraulic and wind erosion, desertification, waste treatment, natural resources, ecology, landscape, geodesy and topography.
• Agro-industrial constructions: greenhouses, grain silos and warehouses, livestock housing, drying plants, fodder dehydration plants, feed factories, seed selection centers and agricultural warehouses.
• Food and agriculture industries: oil mills, canning factories, wine cellars, dairy farms, slaughterhouses, cold stores, freezing facilities, etc.
• Soils: soil analysis, fertilization and amendment of agricultural soils
• Water management and renewable energies: hydrological studies, soil-plant studies, irrigation projects, drainage and generation facilities with renewable energies.
• Crop protection and biotechnology: animal and plant selection and breeding, disease and pest prevention and diagnosis. 
• Direction and management of agricultural and livestock farms: agricultural economics and sociology, company valuations, expert reports.