Centre facilities

Several units are integrated in the Engineering Building:

  • The School of Industrial and Civil Engineering (EIIC).
  • Administration of the Engineering Building.
  • Engineering Building’s Library.
  • Department of Cartography and Graphic Expression in Engineering.
  • Department of Civil Engineering.
  • Department of Electrical Engineering.
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering.
  • Department of Process Engineering.
  • Reprographic and Binding Service.

In order to provide these services, the building is divided into the following blocks:

  • Block A: Main Building (Management, Administration, Concierge, Reprographics, Cafeteria, Auditorium and Lecture Hall.
  • Block B: Computer rooms, laboratories and classrooms.
  • Block C: Teachers’ offices, classrooms for tuition and departmental offices.
  • Block D: Laboratories.
  • Block E: Laboratories.
  • Block F: Classrooms and laboratories.

In general, the resources, equipment, resources and services available are sufficient to guarantee the development of the training activities carried out at the EIIC, as demonstrated in the following sections:

Classrooms

Laboratories

Administrative and janitorial services

Repographic and binding services

Library

WiFi

E-learning support


Classrooms

Teaching classrooms.

The Engineering Building includes six blocks. The teaching rooms are mainly distributed in A and F blocks (lecture halls).
There is a variety of furniture in the classrooms: most of them are metal-framed desks and others are chairs with tablets attached. There are also classrooms with large drawing tables for the teaching of graphic disciplines.

All classrooms are equipped with blackboards, projection screens, overhead projectors, video projectors and computers. The computers have both intranet and internet connections. This equipment is enough to guarantee the development of the educational activities.
Table 1 shows the available classrooms, their location, type and number of seats.

NameBlockFloorCapacityTable/Chair with table
A-001A05639T
A-002A0125165C
A-003A0125166C
A-101A15548T/C
A-102A110171T
A-103A112290T
A-104A15375C
A-105A15372C
A-106A15573C
A-107A15541T
A-108A15573C
A-109A15550T/C
A-110A15549T/C
A-111A15349T/C
A-112A196122C
A-113A15548T/C
A-114A13040C
B-101B19066T/C
F-001F07845T
F-002F011778T
F-003F013776T (drawing)
F-101F17025T(laptop)
F-102F17025T(laptop)
F-103F17050T
F-104F17048T
F-105F17053T
F-106F17043T
F-107F17048T
F-108F17045T
F-109F17046T
F-110F17052T
F-111F114098T
F-201F27054T
F-202F27049T
F203F27051T
F-204F27044T
F-205F2140101T
TOTAL28642452

Computer rooms.

There are four computer rooms of 75 m2 and 24 seats each, equipped with all the resources needed in a teaching classroom, as well as the required software for the teaching of the disciplines that demand these resources. These are also where the examinations for the qualification of these subjects are held.
There is also a self-service computer room (231 m2) with 40 workstations on the ground floor and another 30 workstations on the upper floor, whose working hours are from 8:00 to 20:30 from Monday to Friday, with free access and controlled by university ID card.

This room is also used during the enrolment period in order to carry out the self-enrolment process. This tool has meant that students do not have to wait in the administration office to be attended to in order to register during the corresponding periods of each academic year, although they can also register online.

Halls

There are two halls of 57 m2 each, which are mainly used for the presentation of End-of-Degree Projects, End-of-Degree Projects, Doctoral Theses, as well as for seminars, conferences, round tables, debates, etc.

Study room and multi-purpose spaces.

In the different modules, students have at their disposal various spaces for study and for
carrying out different activities.


Laboratories

The syllabus of the different degrees taught at the EIIC involves laboratory practices. For this reason, the need of laboratories is essential in this type of studies.
This building contains most of the necessary laboratories for the teaching of the degrees, however, for some subjects, students may move to buildings close to the engineering facilities to carry out some practices, mainly those related to basic science subjects.
All the equipment is maintained by the technical staff assigned to each of the Departments. For more than 20 years, the staff has been carrying out these tasks in support of the teaching of the degrees, so they have the necessary training and experience to carry out this work with high levels of effectiveness and efficiency.

List of laboratories.

Department of Chemistry
Physical Chemistry
Analytical Chemistry
Instrumental Methods
Pollution and Environment
Organic Chemistry
Fundamental Chemistry
Department of Process Engineering
Thermodynamics
Thermotechnology
Heat Engines
Industrial Chemistry
Environmental Technology
Water Technology
General Chemical Technology
Instrumental Analysis
Department of Electrical Engineering
Electrical Measurements
Lines and Networks
Faraday Cage
Electrical Machine Drives
Electrical Installations
Electrical Machines
Electrical Protections
High Voltage
Circuit Theory
Renewable Energies and Industrial Safety
Department of Cartography and
Graphical Expression in Engineering
Photogrammetry
Computer Aided Design
Industrial Design
Geomatics
Surveying Instruments and Methods
Department of Physics
General Physics I
General Physics II
Thermotechnology
Physics Extension; (Electricity and magnetism)
Nuclear Physics and Geophysics
Fluid Mechanics and Oceanography
Department of Electronic and Automatic Engineering
Electronic Components
Digital Electronics
Equipment Integration
Industrial Electronics I
Industrial Electronics II
Industrial Electronics III
Engineering Systems and Automatics
Analogue Electronics Laboratory
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Naval Architecture
Biomechanics
Transport and Automobiles
Mechanical Technology
Construction and Maintenance of Machinery
Mechanisms and Machines
Flexible Manufacturing
Rapid Manufacturing
Metrology and Calibration
Knowledge of Materials and Metallurgy
Welding
Nanoscience and Nanomaterials
Departamento de Ingeniería Civil
Concrete, Soils and Bituminous Materials (*)
Materials Testing (**)
Facilities
Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics (***)
Numerical Analysis

Administrative and janitorial services

Administration

The administration of the building is in charge of an Administrator. It is divided into two sections, an economic section and an academic section, with their corresponding managers who are in charge of 8 administrative staff.
There are areas for the individual attention of both teachers and students. There is also an area for documentation archiving and individual offices for the administrator and managers, all equipped with furniture and computer equipment that is renewed periodically, so that the work can be managed in a satisfactory way.
In addition, the school has a management secretary’s office to carry out the more immediate tasks of the management team.

Janitorial office

The building’s caretaker’s office staff has two common areas distributed in a main area in module A and other in the classroom of block F where students and teaching staff are attended and oriented. There is another room for the storage of different materials.
There is a person in charge of the Concierge’s Office, who is responsible for 7 concierges.
The general organization chart of this service can be found at the following web address: web: http://www2.ulpgc.es/index.php?pagina=adm_ei&ver=organigrama


Reprographics and Binding Services

The Engineering Building has one of the best Reprographic Services in the entire ULPGC. In fact, it is where the different governing bodies of the University work, as well as most of the published texts and teaching manuals are edited and printed. It has modern machines and equipment that are periodically renewed to achieve this task effectively.
Reprographics and Binding Service website: http://www.ulpgc.es/index.php?pagina=servicioreprografia&ver=inicio

The binding service is provided in a room run by two assistants who are responsible for the binding and presentation of the University’s official publications as well as books and notes that the teaching staff would like to publish.


Library

The Engineering Building has one of the largest and most complete libraries in the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria’s library system. It is located in Block F. Covering a surface area of 1,134 m2, it has three floors and meets the bibliographic and documentary needs of the teaching staff and students of the EIIC, where 12 official degrees adapted to the EHEA are taught. The library also serves the needs of researchers belonging to the five departments located in the building and those of other
users from nearby centers.

The usual business hours are from 8:30 am to 8:30 pm, Monday to Friday, and the services it provides include three study rooms with a total of 198 workstations, home loans which can be renewed via the Internet, photocopier service, Internet and Intranet access via 17 computers on the ground floor (one of which has a DIN A3 scanner connected). The library also loans laptops, which is one of the most requested services.

On the first floor, in addition to the aforementioned study room, there is a computer room with 16 computers and a group study room with a blackboard and two tables for six users each. On the same floor is the newspaper library, which still has 67 titles of newspapers and periodicals in paper format that are in the process of being bought.

The collection, which is organized according to the CDU, is spread over the three floors and is freely accessible. Usually, all those titles recommended in the bibliographies of the teaching projects and which are not already available in the collection, whether books, DVDs, videos, multimedia material, maps, etc., are acquired.

It is particularly important that users can print whatever they need from any computer at any time, whether it is their own work or any electronic material obtained from the dozens of electronic resources offered by the University Library through the Intranet.

For further information on the digital resources that the Engineering Library has available and which are the services common to all the libraries of the University Library System, you can access the following URL: http://biblioteca.ulpgc.es/portada

There is much closer and more enriching contact with users through the Virtual Campus, a tool through which we are able to improve and enhance the services provided by the Library thanks to your questions and suggestions. It is an extremely useful tool for disseminating information quickly and efficiently. The library is managed by the Thematic Library Commission of the Engineering Building.


WiFi

Free WiFi is available in the Building ( as is the case in all other buildings on all University Campus) allowing students to connect to the Internet or the Intranet wherever they are in the building using both loan laptops or their own laptops.


E-learning platforms to support face-to-face teaching:

Con el objetivo de dar soporte a la adaptación de los estudios de la ULPGC a las directrices del Espacio

With the aim of supporting the adaptation of the ULPGC studies to the guidelines of the European Higher Education Area,the face-to-face courses have at their disposal an e-learning platform (Moodle) called Virtual Campus through which the students are able to supplement their face-to-face education. They can consult all the documentation for each of the subjects, contact their teachers, ask questions, send their work and receive their marks. It can be consulted at the following web address:
http://www.ulpgc.es/index.php?pagina=campusvirtual&ver=campusvirtual

This platform is also a tool for collaborative work, allowing groups or teams from the
university community to work together on projects of different kinds (management,
research, teaching, society, etc.), without the need for the physical presence of its
members, or reducing it considerably.