ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.25 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.5
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Agroforestry Engineering
Areas: Agroforestry Engineering
Center Higher Polytechnic Engineering School
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
Enter to the students in the knowledge of the mechanical means employees in the mountain, regarding morphology, operation, security and application in the main forest works
The memory of the title contemplates the following contents for this matter:
Alternative engines of internal combustion:
Theoretical and real cycles. Fuels. Power and performances. Characteristic curves. Supercharging. Lubricants. Fuel systems, lubricating and cooling systems.
Forestry tractors:
Evolution, types and uses. Engine. Tests. Transmission. Dynamics of traction. Mechanization of the main forest works
These contents will be developed in accordance with the following program (h. face-to-face teaching - h. non-face-to-face teaching)
I. Engine
1: Introduction. Thermodynamics (1 h.) - 2 h.).
2: Alternative engines of internal combustion. Morphology (1 h. - 2 h.).
3: Theoretical cycles and real cycles of the alternative endothermic engines (2 h. - 4 h.).
4: Fuels (1 h. - 2 h.).
5: Engine performance (1 h. - 2 h.).
6: Characteristic curves (2 h. - 4 h.).
7: Two-stroke engine (1 h. - 2 h.).
8: Transmission (2 h. - 4 h.).
II. Machines
9: The forest tractor (3 h. - 6 h.).
10: Chain saw, brushcutter (2 h. - 4 h.).
11: Safety (2 h. - 4 h.).
Practises:
1. General functioning of four-strokes-cycle engines (1 h. - 2 h.).
2. Basic parts of the diesel engine of four strokes (1h. - 1.5 h.).
3. Filtering of air and valve train (2 h. - 4 h.).
4. Order of functioning, balanced (2 h. - 4 h.).
5. Fuel system (2 h. - 4 h.).
6. Lubrication, refrigeration (2 h. - 4 h.).
7. Supercharging (2 h. - 4 h.).
8. Two-stroke-engine (2 h. - 4 h.).
9. Chain saw (2h. - 4 h.).
10. Tractor (2 h. - 4 h.).
Basic bibliography:
Giacosa, D. (1988). Motores endotérmicos. Ed. Dossat, D.L. 1988
Maza, J. (1981). Manual del motoserrista. 2ª ed Mapa. Madrid. 199 pp.
Nieto, R. (2001). Manual de mecanización forestal. Ed. Rufino Nieto. Jaén. 477 pp.
Complementary bibliography:
Arnal, P. V., Laguna, A. (1996) Tractores y motores agrícolas / 3ª ed. rev. y ampliada. Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentacin, Mundi-Prensa. Madrid.
Hernanz, J.L. (2002). El par motor. Ed. Agrotécnicas. Revista Terralia. Madrid. pp 24-29.
John Deere (1980). Motores. Colección Fundamentos de Servicio. Ed. Deere & Company, Moline-Illinois. 182 pp.
Ortiz-Cañavate, J.; Hernanz, J.L. (1989). Técnica de la mecanización agraria. 30 edición. Ed. Mundi-Prensa, Madrid. 642 pp.
Spinelli, R. (2000). Meccanizzazione forestale intermedia. Calderini Edagricole. Bologna.
Varios.(1999). Tecnología automoción. : Edebé, D.L. Barcelona.
Vignote, S.; Martos, J.; González, M. A. (1993). Los Tractores en la explotación forestal. Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación. Madrid. 150 pp
In this subject the student will acquire or practice a series of generic competences, desirable in any university degree, and specific, typical of engineering in general or forest engineering in particular. Within the competency table that was designed for the degree, the following will be worked on:
Basic and general skills:
CG9 - Knowledge of hydraulics, construction, electrification, forest roads, machinery and necessary mechanization
for the management of forest systems as for their conservation
CB3 - That students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (normally within their area of study)
to make judgments that include a reflection on relevant issues of a social, scientific or ethical nature
Transversal competences:
CT2 - Capacity for reasoning and argumentation
CT3 - Ability to work individually, with a self-critical attitude
CT4 - Ability to work in a group and cover problematic situations collectively
CT12 - Ability to solve problems through the integrated application of their knowledge
Specific competences:
CECF9 - Ability to know, understand and use the principles of Forest Machinery and Mechanization
Face-to-face teaching:
- Expository classes of big group: In the theoretical classes the expository method will be used, so that the pupil receives an essential theoretical base for the application of the dialectic and heuristic methods, which need of some minimum knowledge.
In any case, this didactic method will not be used in a rigid way, questions being inserted so that they encourage the reasoning and estimate the level of understanding of the exhibition.
The theoretical class must act as an introduction to the learning of a specific question and not as a substitute of his personal work, which has to be achieved by other means, to the student body. Competences: CG9, CECF9.
- Practices: It will be considered also the accomplishment of practices in which the knowledge acquired in the theoretical classes will be applied, that mechanics constitutive of the engines and machines will be complemented here with the handling of the engine elements. For the accomplishment of these practices the existing equipments will be used in the Agricultural and Forest hall of Mechanization. Competences CG9, CT3, CT4, CT12, CECF9.
For the Face-to-face hours not defined as theoreticians a methodology of learning based on the work in group is suggested, the dialectic method applying, completely participative method that it takes to the student body to reason and to formulate questions correctly, stimulating the critical attitude and proving the need to doubt and to ask himself.
- Tutorials: Besides making a direct contact professor-student body possible, they allow the orientation on any type of problem related to the development of the matter. They allow the individual orientation in order to achieve a bigger efficiency in the personal work of the student body. Tutorials in group are also provided, although these are designed specifically for when the problem that they formulate refers to the set of the student body. Competences: CB3, CG9, CT2, CT4
The virtual campus will be used and, in general, the new technologies (e-mail, etc.) as support to traditional tutorials, making use of the infrastructure of the center and the availability of the student body.
- Tests of evaluation: The pupil will carry out written tests constituted by question and exercises of the set of the subjects of the matter. In these tests, the theoretical knowledge will be evaluated so much as the resolution of problems. Likewise the work of course will have to be exposed orally. Competences: CG9, CT2, CT3, CT12, CECF9
Non-contact work
Throughout the course, the student must prepare the following works:
- Report on the development of all practical classes.
- A work to be delivered at the end of the course on one of the following topics, to choose:
o Use of biomass energy at the level of Galicia, Spain and Europe.
o Study of the rolling in forest land
- Halfway through the course, a summary work and comparative analysis of various characteristics of tractors dragging 3 different brands.
- Competencies: CB3, CG9, CT3, CT4, CECF9
Test or written tests: the competences CG9, CT2, CT3, CT12, CECF9, with 60% of the qualification, are evaluated.
Delivered and/or exposed works: they evaluate the competences CB3, CT3, CECF9, with 40% of the qualification.
In the extraordinary opportunity of recovery, the written tests and/or works that did not surpass the qualification of pass in the ordinary opportunity will have to be carried out. In any case, the relative weight of every indicated report would keep in the previous paragraph.
In the case of repeating students, the assessment system will be identical to the one mentioned above.
Students who have been granted the attendance waiver, according to Instruction 1/2017 of the Secretaría Xeral, must take the official exams and submit all the activities and work carried out throughout the be available on Campus Virtual. In this way, their evaluation will be under the same conditions as the rest of the students.
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the “Regulations for the evaluation of student academic performance and review of grades” will apply.
Eyewitness work in the classroom (41 hr.):
Theoretical classes (expository, of big group) 18 hr.
Practices (with reduced groups): 18 h.
Tutorials in group (with very reduced groups): 2 h.
Activities of evaluation: 3 h.
Personal work of the student body (71,5 hr.):
Reading and preparation of subjects: 20 h.
Accomplishment of exercises: 15 h.
Previous preparation of the practices and subsequent work on them: 18 h.
Elaboration of the works of course (in group or individually): 8,5 h.
Preparation of evaluation tests: 10 h.
The help of the reading, base for the use of the interactive and practical teachings, is very important. The assistance to the expository and interactive classes is essential to reinforce the teaching-learning process of the pupil. In this way he is going to develop the learning and is going to be conscious of the level that he keeps acquaring and his limitations, always with the help and support of the professor.
The addition of the tutorials, for groups and individual, is going to allow him to do in the face of the difficulties that the matter can present.
Maximo Antonio Dugo Paton
Coordinador/a- Department
- Agroforestry Engineering
- Area
- Agroforestry Engineering
- Phone
- 982823213
- maximo.dugo [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University School Lecturer
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| 01.17.2025 16:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 11 (Lecture room 3) |
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