Diapositiva 1

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The College of Agriculture of Madrid is the
longest Spanish college of agriculture. It was
founded in 1855 with the aim of providing
technical manpower for improving the Spanish
agriculture. In 1966 the college and other
colleges for further education in engineering
merged in the Polytechnic Institute For Higher
Education. Since 1971 the latter became the
Polytechnic University of Madrid.
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HUMAN RESOURCES
The academic staff comprises 221 full-time
members involved in lecturing and research. There
are 134 part-time members and co-workers devoted
in lecturing and most of them participating in
research programmes.
Research is supported by 27 laboratory and
workshop technicians, whereas the administration
involves 141 members. Most of the academic staff
are agricultural engineers but it is increasing
in multidisciplinary and it also includes civil
and mechanical engineers, scientists, botanists,
economists and mathematicians.
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SERVICES
The services offered by the College comprise
i) 17 Departments that are responsible for
implementing the undergraduate and postgraduate
programmes and they carry out all the research
work.
ii) Up to 40,000 m2 room facilities for
lecturing, laboratories and administration.
iii) 8 ha for field experimentation.
iv) Computing facilities for students with 70
PCs.
v) A library whose catalogued books amount over
30,000. About 200 journals and periodicals are
current taken covering agricultural engineering,
agricultural, biological and earth sciences,
economics, management and other branches of
engineering.
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AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING AS A CAREER
Our graduated students have opportunities for
both employment and career development working as
civil servants in governmental institutions,
undertaking advisory and consultancy work and as
staff members in different sectors of the
agricultural and allied industry, where their
basic engineering training is well appreciated.
The main topics in which our agricultural
engireers work are

• - Agribusiness
• Ecology and Environment
• - Food Technology
• - Farmstaed and livestock Buildings
• - Irrigation Engineering and Land Reclamation
• Marketing of agricultural commodities
• Plant Breeding
• Plant and Animal Production
• Power and Farm Machinery
• - Rural Development
• - Seed and Grain Technology

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- Agricultural Buildings and Structures
DEPARTMENTS
- Animal Production
- Biotechnology
- Crop Production
- Crop Protection and Botany
- Chemistry
- Agricultural Economics and Marketing
- Food Technology
- Languages
- Mathematics
- Physics
- Rural Engineering
- Rural Planning
- Soil Science
- Statistics and Management in Agriculture
- Survey Engineering
- Vegetal Biology
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UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMME
The actual undergraduate programme was initiated
in 1996, it has a duration of five years (every
year is divided in two semesters and each
semester is divided in 15 weeks for lecturing),
and leads to the award of Agricultural
Engineering (which is equivalent to an MSc in
Agricultural Engineering). The aim of the
programme is to provide an academic foundation,
as well as appropiate advanced technology and
management, for those wishing to practise
engineering at professional level in the
agricultural engineering.
This programme comprises nine different options
- Agricultural Economics - Animal Production -
Crop Production - Environment - Food
Technology - Land Reclamation - Plant
Breeding - Plant Protection - Rural Engineering
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POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMME
Our postgraduate programme leads to the award of
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. It provides
training in research and development through the
pursuit of an individual investigation, the
result of which is recorded in a Ph.D. Thesis. A
Ph.D. degree involves an extended programme of
research which may be original or concerned with
the application of existing knowledge to a new
area of study. The minimum time required for
completion of a Ph.D. programme is three years.
In addition to the individual research work,
students must complete two years of lecture
courses on topics related to their research work