2023
Project in Agronomical Engineering
Name: Project in Agronomical Engineering
Code: ERU10444M
9 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/234 hours
Scientific Area:
Rural Engineering
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English, French, Spanish
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Presentation
This curricular unit of knowledge integration will endow the Master's students with skills in planning farming companies, their operation, profitability and sustainability
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
The main objective oft his course is to give the masters student in Agricultural Engineering the opportunity to
get competence for designing the agricultural systems. As the fundamental agricultural system is the farm, an
agricultural enterprise with increasing technological complexity, a competent engineer is more and more
required to assist the farmers solving technological and very often scientific problems applied to agricultural
production.
Therefore the present course focuses on the project of a modern farm, weather it is a new or a modified and
modernized one.
get competence for designing the agricultural systems. As the fundamental agricultural system is the farm, an
agricultural enterprise with increasing technological complexity, a competent engineer is more and more
required to assist the farmers solving technological and very often scientific problems applied to agricultural
production.
Therefore the present course focuses on the project of a modern farm, weather it is a new or a modified and
modernized one.
Contents
1 Introduction to Engineering design
Concepts and fundamental rules for the designer. Project conception, elaboration, presentation, and
implementation. Designing phases. Project parts: graphic pieces, texts.
2 Planning for the agricultural activities
Teachers presentation of the Project Preliminary Program. Agriculture, cattle rising, forest management.
Choosing the activities according to the available resources and environmental constraints.
3 Farm machinery and mechanization project
Field work. Economy. Energy.
4 Farm buildings design
Space management. Environmental conditioning.
5 Irrigation and drainage systems design
Irrigation and drainage technology. Soil and water conservation technology.
6 Socioeconomic evaluation of the Project
Agricultural production economy. Farm management.
Concepts and fundamental rules for the designer. Project conception, elaboration, presentation, and
implementation. Designing phases. Project parts: graphic pieces, texts.
2 Planning for the agricultural activities
Teachers presentation of the Project Preliminary Program. Agriculture, cattle rising, forest management.
Choosing the activities according to the available resources and environmental constraints.
3 Farm machinery and mechanization project
Field work. Economy. Energy.
4 Farm buildings design
Space management. Environmental conditioning.
5 Irrigation and drainage systems design
Irrigation and drainage technology. Soil and water conservation technology.
6 Socioeconomic evaluation of the Project
Agricultural production economy. Farm management.
Teaching Methods
The students get competences by searching problem solutions by tem own, acting together with the
professors, as a Project team.
professors, as a Project team.
