The College of Agricultural Engineering (FEAGRI) was established in 1985, although the program on undergraduation in Agricultural Engineering was being taught at UNICAMP since 1975 on the College of Food Engineering in the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP).
The graduation activities began in 1978 with the M.Sc. program. Consequence of the quantitative and qualitative research development, the Ph.D program was offered for the first time in 1993. The master and doctoral programs are very dynamic and offer five major areas of concentration:
- Soil and water engineering;
- Rural construction for animal and vegetal production;
- Post harvest technologies;
- Farm machinery and equipment design; and
- Farm planning and production management.
Research focusing on sustainable system design using natural resources, adaptation of conventional and alternative energy resources, precision agriculture is also carried out.
Located at the UNICAMP main Campus in Campinas (State of Sao Paulo), the College of Agricultural Engineering occupies an area of 13 ha, being 10 ha used as experimental field. The college has 6,600 m2 of constructed area, divided in laboratories, classrooms, academic sectors (Under graduate, Graduate, Computer Lab and Prototypes) and administrative section.
The staff of the College Agricultural Engineering counts with 37 academic staffs, being 98% with doctor degree, 64 qualified technicians, and around 600 students.
FEAGRI´s mission is “to graduate engineers and researchers capable to work in the Agricultural Engineering areas and characterized for having a diversified background with technical, social, economical and environmental concerns. To generate and to spread out agricultural technical knowledge, proposing viable alternatives which attend the needs and demands of the society, and respecting the sustainability principles.” |
