Higher Polytechnic School of Engineering

Central Campus and Santa Cruz

Infrastructure and services

Agricultural Engineering Section

Classrooms for Face-to-Face Theoretical Teaching

The theoretical lectures are given in the classrooms located in the building of the Agricultural and Rural Engineering Section of the Higher Polytechnic School of Engineering, situated on the Camino de San Bartolomé de Geneto, within the Campus of Experimental Sciences and Technical Studies, in the Anchieta area. This two-story building, constructed in 1981, has the following facilities:

Ground Floor or “Hall”:
Cafeteria, 3 teachers' offices, Secretariat, 4 offices corresponding to the Management Team, Library with a study room, Computer Room, Meeting Room, elevator and Assembly Hall.

Floor 1:

  • Classroom 1-1. 70.54 m2 and 36 seats
  • Classroom 1-2. 71.06 m2 and 54 seats
  • Classroom 1-3. 71.51 m2 and 50 seats
  • Classroom 1-4 147.85 m2 and 72 seats
  • Drawing Room. 208.95 m2 and 49 places
  • Animal Science Laboratory
  • Biology Laboratory
  • Physics Laboratory
  • Surveying Laboratory
  • 10 faculty offices
  • Student Delegation

Floor 2:

  • Classroom 2-1. 69.75 m2 and 36 seats
  • Classroom 2-2-A. 71.32 m2 and 48 seats
  • Classroom 2-2-B: 71.32 m2 and 48 seats
  • Classroom 2-3. 72 m2 and 44 seats
  • Agricultural Analysis Laboratory
  • General Chemistry Laboratory
  • Phytopathology Laboratory
  • Phytotechnics/Agrarian Industries Laboratory
  • 9 faculty offices

Basement Level:

  • Agricultural Industries Laboratory-Winery
  • Intensive Culture Laboratory
  • Woody Crops Laboratory
  • Hydraulics Laboratory
  • 3 teachers' offices in the Exterior of the Central Building: 

Headquarters of the Department of Agricultural and Rural Engineering

Classrooms for Theoretical-Practical Teaching
The classrooms are equipped with computers, projectors, screens, slide projectors and a transparency projection system for teaching use.

The ULL wireless network provides students and faculty with direct Internet access from anywhere in the School.

Laboratories for Practical Face-to-Face Teaching.
The following spaces are available for practical teaching:

  • Dynamometer brake workshop 48.7 m2
  • Agricultural Machinery Garage 79.2 m2
  • Cheese factory 53.5 m2
  • Farm of 120 m2
  • Physics Warehouse 31.3 m2
  • Phytopathology Warehouse 15.2 m2
  • Intensive Crop Warehouse 25.0 m2

Computer Lab:
There is a computer lab for mixed use (students and teaching) with 19 workstations in total, located on the ground floor, and one station for 3 laptops. It includes 1 video projector, 1 screen, and 1 whiteboard for teaching.

Buildings and greenhouses of the Agricultural and Rural Engineering Section for Practical Teaching, located outside the building

Description No. Use Area m2
Ship 1 Cheese Workshop 140 m2 Agroforestry Engineering Food Technology
Ship 2 Fruit Growing Warehouse - Physical 115 m2 Plant Production/Applied Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Telematics Engineering, Machines and Thermal Engines, Electronic Technology
Ship 3 Plant Protection Products Warehouse, Intensive Crops, Plant Science 150 m2 Plant Production
Ship 4 Agricultural Engines and Machinery 140 m2 Agroforestry Engineering
Ship 5 Soil Science Practice Warehouse 60 m2 Soil Science and Geology
Shade Common use 565 m2 Plant Production
Protea greenhouse Protea cultivation 100 m2 Plant Production
Caja Canarias Greenhouse Common use 1500 m2 Plant Production
COPAGO Greenhouse Common use 750 m2 Plant Production
Glass greenhouses Common use 1250 m2 Plant Production
SPAE Greenhouse Crops 54 m2 Plant Production

SPAE: Permanent Seminar on Organic Agriculture

Farmland for Field Practices of the Agricultural and Rural Engineering Section

No. Use Area m2 Areas that use it
Tahonilla Alta Field practices 27500 m2 Plant Production/Agroforestry Engineering
Tahonilla Baja Field practices 19200 m2 Plant Production/Agroforestry Engineering
Panasca Baja Field practices 14000 m2 Plant Production/Agroforestry Engineering
Panasca Alta SGAI 35,000 m2 Plant Production/Agroforestry Engineering

SGAI: General Research Support Services

Laboratories and classrooms of departments that teach in the Agricultural and Rural Engineering Section

No. Description Department
1 General Chemistry and Agricultural Analysis Laboratory Animal Biology and Soil Science and Geology
2 Laboratory of Agricultural Industries Animal Biology and Soil Science and Geology
1 General Chemistry and Agricultural Analysis Laboratory Chemical Engineering and Pharmaceutical Technology
3 Animal Science Laboratory Agricultural and Rural Engineering
4 Biology Laboratory Botany, Geology and Plant Physiology
5 Physics Laboratory Physics
6 Phytopathology Laboratory Agricultural and Rural Engineering
7 Phytotechnics Laboratory Agricultural and Rural Engineering
8 Hydraulics Laboratory Agricultural and Rural Engineering
9 Computer Lab Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research
10 Drawing Classroom Techniques and projects in Engineering and Architecture

Infrastructure available outside the Center in the different areas of knowledge that participate in the teaching of the Degree in Agricultural and Rural Engineering

Botany Area

Description No. Ability Board Canon Internet Overhead projector
Offices 16 – – 1 – –
Classrooms 1 15 1 1 Yeah 1
Library 2 8 (one of them) – – Yeah –
Practical Laboratory 1 20 2 1 Yeah 1

Area of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry

Description No. Ability Board Canon Internet Overhead projector
Offices 10 – – – Yeah –
Classrooms 1 25 1 1 Yeah 1
Library – – – – – –
Practical Laboratory 1 50 2 – – –
Cartography office 1 12 – – Yeah –
Research laboratories 10 variable – – Yeah –

Area of Statistics and Operations Research

Description No. Ability Board Canon Internet Overhead projector
Offices 21 21 x (1-2) – – Yeah –
Classrooms 1 30 1 1 Yeah –
Library 1 – – – – –

Area of Applied Physics

Description No. Ability Board Canon Internet Overhead projector
Offices 21 21 x (1-2) – – Yeah –
Classrooms 1 30 1 1 Yeah –
Library 1 – – – – –

Area of Plant Physiology

Description No. Ability Board Canon Internet Overhead projector
Offices 14 14 x 5 – – Yeah –
Classrooms 2 12 2 2 Yeah 2
Library 1 12 – – – –
Practical Laboratory 5 25 4 1 Yeah 1
Space for tutoring 2 10 1 – – –

Area of Petrology and Geochemistry

Description No. Ability Board Canon Internet Overhead projector
Offices 8 8 x (2-2) – – Yeah –
Classrooms 1 30 1 1 Yeah 1
Library 1 10 – – – –
Practical Laboratory 1 25x2 1x2 1 – 1x2
Study room 1 10 – – – –
Sieve 1 4 – – – –
Thin sheet workshop 1 5 – – – –