AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

OBJECTIVES

The Master in Agricultural Engineering aims to provide:

• Technical and scientific know-how to enable professionals to resolve problems and design solutions in the agronomy, agro environmental and agro industrial sectors;
• Expertise to fulfill management responsibilities in the agricultural and agro industrial fields
• Skills necessary for the design and implementation of projects and innovative studies in the agronomy and agro industrial fields

STRUCTURE

The cycle of studies leading to the Master’s degree in Agricultural Engineering is composed by:

• a specialization, consisting of an organized set of curricular units corresponding to 78 ECTS credits. It confers a Specialization in Agricultural Engineering;
• a dissertation of original scientific nature and specially carried out for this purpose, or a professional internship, subject to a final report, corresponding to 42 out of the total of 120 ECTS credits in the Master, whose public defense may award the Master’s Degree in Agricultural Engineering.

CURRICULAR PLAN

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ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

• Holders of a Bachelor degree, or legal equivalent, in Agronomic Engineering, Agronomy or related areas;
• Holders of a foreign higher degree in one of the areas described in the previous paragraph;
• Holders of any degree or legal equivalent who have successfully completed the Continuing Education in Agronomy course at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto;
• Other graduates with complementary training in the area of Agricultural Sciences of at least 42 ECTS will be admitted.
• Holders of an academic, scientific or professional curriculum that the scientific committee of the Master recognizes as sufficient to attest the capacity to carry out this cycle of studies.

SELECTION CRITERIA

Candidates who have a Bachelor’s degree, will be placed first.

Placing will be done according to the following criteria and subcriteria:

• Area of studies (40%):
  • Agriculture Engineering and Agricultural Engineering – 100%
  • Forestry Engineering, Zootechnical Engineering and Biology – 90%
  • Landscape Architecture, Biochemistry, Food Engineering and Veterinary Medicine – 80%
  • other – 20% to 90%
• Average of the degree (final grade of the Bachelor’s degree in 20 values) (30%)
  • If the student has a Master’s degree or a Bachelor’s degree (equivalent to the current Master’s degree), the classification obtained in the Master’s degree (base 20 values) plus 2 values will be considered.
• Academic, scientific and technical curriculum (20%)
  • relevant curriculum easily verifiable by the jury by documents attached to the application or other – 100%;
  • for other situations – 0% to 100%
• Professional experience (10%)
  • relevant experience in the area for two or more years – 100%
  • relevant experience between two months and two years – 80%
  • work experience not relevant or in another area – 50%

Criteria for the tie-break of candidates:

• Priority being given to those who have obtained a Bachelor’s degree in the most recent year.

Candidates who do not yet hold a Bachelor’s degree and/or have an academic, scientific or professional curriculum that is recognized as attesting to the ability to carry out this Master by the statutory scientific body, will be serialized according to the criteria and sub-criteria indicated above, but replacing the final grade point average by the weighted average of the curricular units performed.