The Rural Engineering Department is made up of three Knowledge Areas:

  • Construction Engineering
  • Agroforestry Engineering
  • Engineering Projects

It currently has 31 teachers and a high percentage of them has more of 25 years of teaching and research experience.

The Department teaches in the following centers and degrees:

HIGHER TECHNICAL SCHOOL OF AGRO-FOOD AND FORESTRY ENGINEERING:

  • Oenology (no teaching)
  • Degree in Oenology
  • Degree in Food and Agriculture Engineering and Rural Environment
  • Degree in Forestry Engineering
  • University Master in Agronomical Engineering
  • University Master in Forestry Engineering

HIGHER TECHNICAL SCHOOL OF CORDOBA

  • Degree in Electrical Engineering
  • Degree in Industrial Electronical Engineering
  • Degree in Mechanical Engineering
  • Degree in Computer Engineering
  • University Master in Industrial Engineering
  • University Master in Computer Engineering

HIGHER TECHNICAL SCHOOL OF BELMEZ

  • Degree in Civil Engineering
  • Degree in Mining and Energy Resources Engineering
  • University Master in Mining Engineering

FACULTY OF SCIENCES

  • Degree in Environmental Sciences
  • Degree in Physics

FACULTY OF HUMANITIES

  • Degree in Cinema and Culture

With regard to the teaching activity we must emphasize the great contribution of the teaching staff in the supervision of Final-Year Professional Works. In the same way, they participate in the following masters and Doctorate programmes:

  • University Master in Environmental Management and Biodiversity by University of Cordoba
  • University Master in Olive Growing and Oil Technology
  • University Master in Patrimony Management from the Municipality
  • University Master in Representation and Design in Engineering and Architecture
  • University Master in Distributed Renewable Energy
  • University Master in Prevention of Occupational Hazards
  • University Master in Fire Management in Forestry Lands
  • University Master in Teachers of the Obligatory Secondary Education and Languages Teaching
  • University Master in Plant Protection
  • University Master in Advanced Technologies of Materials for the Sustainable Construction
  • University Master in Digital Transformation of the Agri-food and Forestry Sectors (DIGITAL-AGRI)

The research activity is developed through the following research lines:

1.- Construction Engineering Area

  • Implementation of new technologies and methods for the development of a sustainable construction

2.-Agroforestry Engineering Area

  • Biofuels (1 and 2 generation)
  • Biomass
  • Biorefinery

3.- Engineering Projects Area

  • Software and algorithms for projects design and management
  • Industrial and environmental noise
  • Techniques of noise active control. Psychoacoustics
  • Prevention of occupational hazards. Noise and vibrations in the job place
  • Ideal Design of distribution in Plant with Evolutionary, Coevolutionary and interactive Algorithms
  • Projects Planning
  • Educational Technologies applied to Engineering Education
  • Agrometeorology applied to irrigation
  • Quality control and validation of climatic data
  • Surface-Hydrology and water erosion
  • Measures and water and soil resources modelling in olive grove; Measures for the conservation of water and soil in olive grove.
  • Spatial analysis and multifractality in rainfall