ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Agroforestry Engineering, Plant Production and Engineering Projects
Areas: Agroforestry Engineering, Engineering Projects
Center Higher Polytechnic Engineering School
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
Know how to organize activities and design efficiency in different production systems of dairy farms.
Specific skills: adequate knowledge and ability to develop and apply proprietary technology in production systems and work organization.
The Degree Title Memory for this subject includes the following contents:
Extensive dairy cow farming systems: grass-based systems, low-concentrate systems. Intensive dairy cow farming systems: unifeed systems, dry mix, wet mix, “concentrate only” systems. Technical-productive effectiveness and efficiency. Quality of life. Organization of work teams. Efficiency analysis. Organization and planning. Organization of facilities in the dairy cow farm. Occupational hazards in agricultural work. Safety and health in dairy cow farms. Insurance.
These contents will be developed according to the following list of topics (the duration assigned to each activity may vary depending on the content development):
1.-LECTURES (9 hours)
Session 1: Evolution in farming/production systems (1 h).
Session 2: Production systems: classification and characterization (1 h).
Session 3: Production systems: application standards, animal welfare assessment (1 h).
Session 4: Improvement of efficiency in design (1 h).
Session 5: The environment in production systems (1 h).
Session 6: Evolution and improvement in working systems in dairy farming (1 h).
Session 7: Methods Engineering (1 h).
Session 8: Occupational risks in agricultural work (1 h).
Session 9: Planning activities on a farm (1 h).
2.-PRACTICES (12 hours)
Practice 1: Animal welfare assessment (2 h).
Practice 2: Regulatory requirements and efficiency in layout design (2 h).
Practice 3: Optimization of operation on environmental variables (2 h).
Practice 4. Practice risk analysis in a dairy farm (2 h).
Practice 5. Practice decomposition of a regular process on the farm (2 h).
Practice 6: Programming the production process with Project (2 h).
3.-GROUP TUTORING (3 hours)
1. Scheduling tutoring activities, practices and course work.
2. Follow-up mentoring activities.
3. Follow-up mentoring activities.
Additionally it is considered a voluntary (not evaluated) field practice where students will visit the CIAM (Mabegondo Agricultural Research Centre, A Coruña) to see first-hand as address the organization of work in its livestock facilities.
Student’s self-work (indicative reference):
Reading and preparation of subject contents (10 h).
Preparation of practice activities (15 h).
Preparation and conduct of the course work (15 h).
Preparation of assessment activities (9 h).
BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Bickert, W.G. (et al.). (2000). Dairy freestall: housing and equipment. Ed. Midwest Plan Service, Ames, Iowa.
- Blanco, I.; Cantalapiedra, J.J.; Carreira, X.C.; Fernández, Mª.E.; Mariño, R.; Méndez, M.; Pereira, J.M.; Pérez, X.C.; Veiga, J.A.; Torres, M.L. (2013). Benestar animal e instalacións. Gando vacún leiteiro. Xunta de Galicia. Consellería do Medio Rural e do Mar. Santiago de Compostela.
- BTPL (Bureau Technique de Promotion Laitière). 2011. Le logement du troupeau laitier. Ed. France Agricole, Paris.
- Callejo Ramos, A. (2009). Cow comfort. Ed. Servet, Zaragoza.
- Callejo Ramos, A. (2016). Bioseguridad en las granjas de vacuno de leche. Ed. Servet, Zaragoza.
- Van Waveren W. (2009). Cost comparison report. (3º part) European Dairy Farmers Congress 2009. Quality of Life and Labour Management in Dairy Farming. 24 to 26 June, Cork, Ireland.
COMPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Carreira Pérez, X. C. (1996). Aloxamentos para gando vacún de leite. Xunta de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela.
- Donham, K.J.; Thelin, A. (2016). Agricultural medicine: rural occupational and environmental health, safety, and prevention. Ed. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey.
- Iglesias Vázquez, C.; Rega Piñeiro, J. (coord.) (2010). Prevención de riscos laborais no agro galego. Xunta de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela.
- International Labour Office. (2011). Safety and health in agriculture ILO code of practice. ILO, Ginebra.
- Levallois, R. (2018). Gestion de l'entreprise Agricole: de la Theorie a la Pratique. Ed. Presses de l’Université Laval, Quebec.
- Palmer, R.W. (2001). Dairy modernization planning guide. Dairy Business Communications, cop.
- Proceedings from Building freestall barns and milking centers: methods and materials Conference (2003). Natural Resource, Agriculture and Engineering Service, Ithaca.
- Proceedings from Dairy Housing and Equipment Systems: mananaging and planning for profitability Conference (2000). Natural Resource, Agriculture and Engineering Service, Ithaca.
Basic, general and transversal competences:
• CB7 - That the students know how to apply their knowledge and their ability to solve problems in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their field of study.
• CB8 - That students are able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of formulating judgments based on information that, being incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments.
• CG1 - Ability to plan, organize, direct and control the production systems and processes developed in the agricultural sector and the agri-food industry, within a framework that guarantees the competitiveness of companies without forgetting the protection and conservation of the environment and the improvement and sustainable development of rural areas.
• CG4 - Ability to apply acquired knowledge to solve problems formulated in new situations, analyzing information from the environment and summarizing it in an efficient way to facilitate the process of decision making in companies and organizations in the agri-food sector.
• CT1 - Capacity for analysis and synthesis.
• CT2 - Capacity for reasoning and argumentation.
• CT12 - Ability to solve problems through the integrated application of their knowledge.
Specific competences:
• CE17 - Appropriate knowledge and ability to develop and apply appropriate technology in the specific languages and techniques of the organization and management of the agri-food business.
Quarterly subject, with 9 hours of participatory lectures. Practices are held in groups of 20 students, with application of methodologies and techniques to specific cases. 6 sessions of laboratory practice (2 hours each) are performed. The practical classes are classes in the computer classroom in which technical problems, with application for students to develop their professional life, will be addressed. Also referred to three hours of tutoring in small groups where students jointly address problems of the topics addressed.
Using the platform of the virtual USC will streamline the information flow bidirectionally between student and teacher, giving agility to the teaching of the subject, and facilitating access to documentation by the student.
The applied teaching methodologies will be:
Participatory lectures. Seminars and conferences (CE17).
Laboratory or field practices. Computer classroom practices (CE17).
Use of classic and digital whiteboards. Use of the virtual classroom (CE17).
Making presentations using a computer (CB7, CB8, CG1).
Problem resolution. Preparation and presentation of course work/s (CB7, CB8, CG1, CT12).
Learning based on the resolution of practical cases and projects (CB7, CB8, CG1, CT2).
Individualized and collective tutorials (CG4).
Autonomous work and independent study of students (CT1, CB7, CB8, CG1).
Group work and cooperative learning. Active discussion session(s) (CT1).
The system includes a continuous evaluation (attendance and active participation and completion of course work and exercises) combined with a final test (complementary to continuous evaluation), as described below:
- Attendance and active participation (20%). Evaluated competences CT1, CT12 and CE17.
- Written test (50%). Evaluated competences CG1, CB7, CG4, CT12 and CE17.
- Carrying out exercises (10%). Evaluated competences CB8, CG1, CT1, CT2 and CE17.
- Works submitted/exposed (20%). (Analysis of conditioning factors of production models - with handling of bibliographic and technical information in foreign languages). Evaluated competences CB8, CG1, CT1, CT2 and CE17.
Observations:
The evaluation system will be the same in the first and in the second call of each course, both for first-year students and repeater students. To pass the subject, a score of 5 out of 10 must be achieved in the sum of all the sections of the assessment system. Also, for all students, the qualifications obtained in any of the sections of the evaluation system will be valid in all calls for the academic year in which they are reached and will not be valid in subsequent courses.
Students who have a recognized class attendance dispensation under the conditions indicated in Order 1/2017 of the General Secretariat of the USC to pass the subject, must take the written test (an exam that will represent 80% of the final qualification and obtain in it a qualification of 5 out of 10) on the official date established by the Center and do a course work (that will represent 20% of the final qualification and having to achieve in it a minimum qualification of 1 point out of 2).
In cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions of the "Regulations for evaluating students' academic performance and reviewing grades" will apply.
The student will receive 9 hours of expository teaching and participate in 12 hours of practice (interactive teaching). In addition, there are three face-to-face hours of tutoring in small groups. Also, the student must develop additional individual self-work, preparing documentation for classes, doing course work and exercises, preparing the written test and doing this test. These tasks will be devoted 51 hours of personal work.
• Attendance at all teaching activities.
• Consultation of the recommended bibliography.
• Make frequent use of tutorials for any question relating to the subject.
María Elena Fernández Rodríguez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Agroforestry Engineering
- Area
- Agroforestry Engineering
- melena.fernandez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
José Francisco Vaamonde Longueira
- Department
- Plant Production and Engineering Projects
- Area
- Engineering Projects
- josefrancisco.vaamonde [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOSU (Organic Law Of University System) Associate University Professor
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