2025
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, 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 work to be developed within this course unit will be a project for an agricultural enterprise, with various agricultural activities that require supervision by faculty members with different specialties. Contact with students will occur primarily during weekly in-person classes. In these classes, in addition to an introduction to the project itself and the various project topics covered in the program, faculty members will monitor and guide students' work throughout the project's various phases. This monitoring will also allow for ongoing assessment of the students' work.
Assessment
Continuous Assessment (exclusively)
N. 10, of Article 110 of the RAUE applies.
The work to be developed within the scope of this curricular unit will be a project for an agricultural enterprise, with different agricultural activities.
The projects will be carried out in group work.
Assessment will be conducted in three phases: base program (20%), preliminary study (40%), and base project (40%).
All assessments will include an oral presentation with discussion and the submission of a written document.
N. 10, of Article 110 of the RAUE applies.
The work to be developed within the scope of this curricular unit will be a project for an agricultural enterprise, with different agricultural activities.
The projects will be carried out in group work.
Assessment will be conducted in three phases: base program (20%), preliminary study (40%), and base project (40%).
All assessments will include an oral presentation with discussion and the submission of a written document.
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