Recursos Materiales y Apoyo Disponible para los Doctorandos en Ing. Mecatrónica
> LIST OF MATERIAL RESOURCES AND SERVICES.
LIST OF MATERIAL RESOURCES AND SERVICES
Major Infrastructures:
High-Performance Computing Laboratory
Responsible: Prof. Dr. Emilio López Zapata. Located in the Bioinnovation building at the University of Málaga.
- An IBM cluster with 512 (256 blades with 2 Power 970 processors) and 1TB of RAM. Myrinet and Gigabit Ethernet communication network. 9.4 TB of disk storage.
- An HP (Superdome) multiprocessor with 128 Itanium cores. 387 GB of RAM and 1TB of disk storage.
- 6 HP Proliant 360 servers with 2 Xeon processors and fiber access to the storage RAID. 10 GB of RAM and 72 GB of redundant storage per server.
- 7 HP Proliant servers with 8 Xeon cores with 32GB RAM and fiber access to shared storage RAID.
- A tape robot with 6 reading heads capable of handling 700 tapes of 800GB each, totaling 560 TB.
Aerohydrodynamics Laboratory for Unmanned Vehicles
Responsible: Prof. Dr. Alfonso J. García Cerezo and Prof. Dr. Ramón Fernández Feria. Located in the Aerohydrodynamics Laboratory for Unmanned Vehicles building, adjacent to the EII.
- 2 UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles)
- 1 Micro-Submarine
- Hydraulic Tunnel:
- Measurement section: 50 x 50 cm
- Measurement section length: 500 cm
- Fluid speed range: 0 - 0.75 m/sec
- Impeller groups: 2
- Unit flow rate: 400 m3/h
- Pressure: 18.0 m.c.a
- Installed power: 2 x 24 Kw - 380/660 V AC
- Flow regulation: 40 to 650 m3/h
- System: Electronic regulator
- Magnetic flowmeter with 0.5% f.e. resolution
- Linear cart with Hepco automatic positioner for visualization
- Stereo PIV system to measure the three velocity components in any section
- Air Tunnel:
- Measurement section: 100 x 100 cm
- Usable length: 400 cm
- Fluid speed range: 0 - 50 m/sec
- Impeller groups: 4 fans with 15 kW installed power and 95 dB sound pressure level
- Maximum flow rate: 72000 m3/h
- INSTRUMENTATION:
- Automatic flow control
- Load cell to measure Schunk forces
- One-component thermal anemometry system from KIMO
- Pitot tube system from KIMO
- Instantaneous temperature measurement with PT10 probe
Renewable Energy Laboratory (School of Industrial Engineering). Located at EII
- Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine with a power between 2000 and 4000 W
- Vertical Axis Wind Turbine with a power between 1000 and 2000 W
- Batteries
- Photovoltaic pumping system
- Tanks for solar pumping installation
- Weather station composed of:
- 1 Remote Acquisition Station, Local Processing, and Data and Image Transmission; Teleprogrammable, mounted in a metal cabinet. 16 analog input channels; 2 digital micro-relay inputs; 2 digital micro-relay outputs; 4 digital 16-bit counters (for rain gauges, anemometers, and other sensors with pulse output); 4 Serial Ports (RS232/422/485, Ethernet, etc.). Display and front keyboard. Data transmission with device server for Ethernet communications. Interconnection cables for linking sensors to the station, external recharging, and communications.
- 1 solar panel for power supply. Automatic Solar Tracker for measuring direct solar radiation with a Pyrheliometer.
- 1 3m high turret for supporting the Station and weather sensors.
- 2 high precision Thermoelectric Pyranometers for measuring Global Solar Radiation. ISO Classification: Secondary Standard (ISO 9060). Spectral range: 305-2800nm
- 2 mounts for the thermoelectric pyranometers.
- 1 dual-axis automatic solar tracker to align pyrheliometers with direct solar radiation, equipped with motor-driven movements for precise sun tracking, with a support structure.
- 1 shading band for pyranometer for measuring Diffuse Radiation, using a global solar radiation sensor.
- 1 set of cup anemometer and vane, with support arm. Ranges: 0-50 m/s and 360º (limit 60 m/s).
- 1 combined Ambient Temperature and Relative Humidity sensor.
- 1 natural ventilation solar radiation shield for temperature and humidity sensors.
- 1 software for computer installation and station control.
- 1 installation and commissioning of the complete system at the designated location.
General facilities
The School of Industrial Engineering (EII) hosts the PhD program in Mechatronics Engineering.
The school has a building that accommodates the official degrees in Industrial Engineering, Automatic and Industrial Electronics Engineering, Industrial Organization Engineering, Electronics Engineering, as well as the corresponding EEES bachelor's degrees, including the degrees from the ANDALUCIA TECH campus of excellence.
The EII serves 4500 students and has approximately 40,000 m² of facilities, including a workshop building, departmental laboratories, classrooms, departmental areas, administrative areas, and services.
- Classrooms: 24 with a capacity for 100 students, 28 with a capacity for 40 students
- Drawing rooms: 5
- Computer rooms: 9 (36 workstations per room)
- Workshops and laboratories: 36 workshops and laboratories, of which 12 are industrial-type halls equipped with overhead cranes
- Offices: Offices for 186 professors distributed in two wings, and additional offices for tutoring in the classroom area
- Library: Over 1500 m² of facilities including reading rooms, a periodicals section, a storage area, study areas, and group work areas
- Open Access Room: Contains reference works, manuals, and more specialized works recommended in course bibliographies with a total of 28,527 monographs. The storage area contains the "Final Degree Projects," ordered by year and within each year by current number.
- Periodicals Section: 90 titles of periodicals available for open access and 100,000 titles of electronic journals where the summaries and, in many cases, the full text of the articles can be consulted.
- Information and Reference Service: Provides and disseminates all types of information related to the areas of knowledge specific to the E.T.S.I. Industriales. The library has access to the collective catalog of the University of Málaga and the network of CD-ROM databases, as well as other library and institutional catalogs. There is also a webpage where users can find specific Internet resources for the field of Technical Sciences. The collective catalog of the University of Málaga provides information on all types of documents (monographs, journal titles, videos, microfiches, maps, etc.) and includes works entered in all the university's libraries. Searches can be conducted using various fields, allowing the combination of search terms. The library of the E.T.S.I. Industriales has 3 public access terminals (OPAC) for consultation.
- Common University Services: The University also has services such as videoconferencing and virtual classrooms, as well as the Central Support Services for Research (www.scai.uma.es). All of these offer excellent experimental means available for the training of students in the PhD programs at UMA.
Mechanisms for Review and Maintenance of Materials and Services at the University and Collaborating Institutions, and Mechanisms for Their Update
The University of Málaga has a centralized maintenance service whose objective is to keep the facilities and services in perfect condition at each of the centers. This service operates in three main ways:
- Preventive Maintenance
- Corrective Maintenance
- Technical-Legal Maintenance
To ensure adequate attention at each center, a campus-based structure has been created, allowing for a faster and more personalized response. The team consists of 60 university staff members, distributed across the 2 current campuses: Teatinos Campus and El Ejido Campus, along with the existing buildings in El Palo, Martiricos, Convento de la Aurora, Rectorate, Technology Park, and the Experimental Center Grice-Hutchinson. Each campus has a Maintenance Manager with a team of officials and technicians from various trades. This structure is known as the Maintenance Unit, which also has the support of an Architect and is directed by an Engineer.
Given the large number of existing facilities, the university's own staff is distributed between morning and afternoon shifts. Additionally, specialized companies are contracted for various types of installations to provide more specific attention along with the corresponding legal requirements.
The University of Málaga has established various bodies responsible for the review, maintenance of facilities and services, and acquisition of materials. The main responsible body is the Vice-Rectorate for Campus and Sustainability, which includes a secretariat related to the management of material resources:
- Secretariat of Works, Conservation, and Sustainability (Conservation, Sustainability, and Maintenance Services)
- The responsibilities attributed to these management bodies are:
- Planning and supervising the execution of new infrastructures or improving existing ones.
- Managing common infrastructures.
- Adapting infrastructures to the needs of the university community.
- Managing the maintenance of infrastructures.
- The responsibilities attributed to these management bodies are:
This Vice-Rectorate has established a procedure called the request manager to process all types of equipment and/or maintenance requests via the Internet.
The center responsible for the program is part of the university's buildings and therefore has all the support described here, and its facilities are included in those maintained by the University of Málaga.
ACCESSIBILITY CRITERIA
The Law 51/2003, of December 2, on equal opportunities, non-discrimination, and universal accessibility for people with disabilities, highlights the concepts of non-discrimination, positive action, and universal accessibility. The law also provides for the regulation of the use of sign language, the strengthening of social dialogue with associations representing people with disabilities by including them in the Royal Board on Disability, and the creation of the National Disability Council. It establishes a timeline for accessibility requirements for all new and existing environments, products, and services. The law mandates that all environments, products, and services must be progressively and gradually open, accessible, and usable by all people, setting deadlines for necessary adaptations.
Regarding Information Society products and services, the law establishes in its Seventh Final Provision the basic conditions of accessibility and non-discrimination for access to and use of technologies, products, and services related to the information society and social communication media. The Tenth Final Provision promotes training in design for all, referring to the curriculum on universal accessibility and training of professionals that the Government must develop in "design for all" across all educational programs, including university programs, to train professionals in the fields of design and construction of the physical environment, buildings, infrastructure, public works, transport, communications, and information society services.
The University of Málaga has always been sensitive to issues related to equal opportunities, making it a priority to make university buildings and their access environments accessible by removing architectural barriers.
Therefore, it is important to highlight that both current and future university infrastructures adhere to the design considerations prescribed by the aforementioned Law 5/2003. In addition to complying with this law, all other current state regulations on accessibility are also considered.
In particular:
- Royal Decree 1612/2007, of December 7, regulating an accessible voting procedure to facilitate the right to vote for visually impaired persons.
- Law 27/2007, of October 23, recognizing Spanish sign languages and regulating means of support for oral communication for deaf, hearing-impaired, and deafblind people.
- Royal Decree 366/2007, establishing accessibility and non-discrimination conditions for people with disabilities in their interactions with the General State Administration.
- Law 39/2006 on the Promotion of Personal Autonomy and Care for Dependent Persons.
- The National Accessibility Plan, 2004-2012.
- Action Plan for Women with Disabilities 2007.
- II Action Plan for People with Disabilities 2003-2007.
- Law 39/2006, of December 14, on the Promotion of Personal Autonomy and Care for Dependent Persons.
- Royal Decree 290/2004, of February 20, regulating work enclaves as a measure to promote employment for people with disabilities.
- Law 1/1998 on Accessibility and the Elimination of Architectural, Urban Planning, and Communication Barriers.
- Law 15/1995 of May 30 on property limits to eliminate architectural barriers for people with disabilities.
- Law 5/1994, of July 19, on the elimination of architectural barriers and promotion of accessibility.
- Law 20/1991, of November 25, on the promotion of accessibility and elimination of architectural barriers.
- Royal Decree 556/1989, of May 19, on minimum accessibility measures in buildings.
- Royal Decree 248/1981, of February 5, on measures for the distribution of housing reserved for disabled people, established in Royal Decree 355/1980, of January 25.
- Royal Decree 355/1980, of January 25. Ministry of Public Works and Urban Planning. Official protection housing reserve and allocation for disabled people.
- Order of March 3, 1980, on the characteristics of access, elevators, and interior conditioning of official protection housing for disabled people.
- Royal Decree 2159/1978, of June 23, approving the planning regulations for the development and application of the law on land use and urban planning. BOE of 15 and 16-09-78.
Additionally, for students with special educational needs arising from disability, the University of Málaga has a specialized office for them: the Support Service for Students with Disabilities (SAAD). Viewing disability as a distinction and enrichment to the university, addressing the educational needs of students with disabilities is a recognition of their personal values and their right to higher education and training. This office provides the appropriate support and advisory services, evaluating the need for possible curricular adaptations, alternative pathways, or alternative studies for doctoral students.
