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Title conferred: Master of Science
Duration of program:
Minimum time: Two years, full-time students
Maximum time: Four years, part-time students
Plan: Semesters

 
 
Entrance Profile    
Students with a bachelor’s degree in agronomic engineering, biosystems engineering, rural engineering, automation engineering, mechanical engineering, electric engineering, biology, applied mathematics, or similar fields.
  
  • Design of environmental control systems for biosystems, i.e. plants, animals, and agricultural products.
  • Greenhouse engineering
     
  • Design of structures, installations, equipment and machines related to biological processes
  • Application of automation in agricultural and agroindustrial processes
  • Energy sources in biological systems
  • Modeling and simulation of biological processes and systems
Graduate Profile  
Specialists in biosystems work in areas where there is an emphasis on the balance between innocuous food supply, natural resource extraction, and environmental protection. Graduates will have the training necessary to provide original, economic, and safe solutions for the problems of the primary and secondary sectors, such as:
  
       
   
       
Basic Block (required)
Credits
Primary Block (Biosystems)
Credits
Advanced Mathematics
6
 Climate Control
5
Research Methodology
4
 Greenhouse Design & Construction
5
Thesis Seminar I
6
 Advanced Computation
6
Thesis Seminar II
6

Statistical Methods (Experimental Design)
6
Scientific Writing
S/C
 Modeling & Simulation
6
    Elective I
6
    Elective II
5
       
Electives I & II
      
Socioeconomic Impact of Greenhouse Technology      
Commercialization of Agricultural Products      
Electronics Applied to Biosystems      
Precision Agriculture      
Remote Monitoring      
       
SPECIALIZED BLOCK (Biosystems)
       
Area of Greenhouse Agricultural Production
Credits
Area of Aquatic Engineering
Credits
Plant Physiology
4

Biology & Pathology of Aquatic Organisms
4
Plant Nutrition
8
 Aquaculture I
8

Comprehensive Blight & Infestation Management
8
 Aquaculture II
8
Elective III
8
 Elective III
8
Elective IV
6
 Elective IV
6
       
Courses in the Area of Livestock Engineering
Credits
Electives III & IV
  
Veterinary Physiology
6
 R.A.S.P.A  

Environment, Natural Resources, & Integration with Livestock Production
6

Intensive Horticulture

  

Planning & Evaluation of Livestock Businesses
6

Seminar

  
Elective III
8
 Organic Production  
Elective IV
8
 Biological Control  
    Plant Health and Safety  

Admissions period: Each semester, in July

Last updated:
November 30, 2006
Creation of program:
November 30, 2006

 

   Post-Harvest Management  
 

Advanced Engineering of Irrigation Systems

  
  SRA Systems  
 

Organism Reproduction and Development

  
  Aquatics  
  Ruminant Nutrition  
  Monogastric Nutrition