Material Resources
The Faculty of Chemical Sciences at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid has numerous services that include facilities such as classrooms, meeting rooms, laboratories, library, pilot plant, etc. in the different buildings that comprise it.
Building A is essentially occupied by the faculty departments and the academic and administrative management area.
Building B houses more departments, the catering area, and several computer rooms, teaching classrooms and meeting rooms.
Building C is the classroom building and, as such, is dedicated to teaching, with numerous teaching rooms and a large computer room.
Finally, Building D houses the "Enrique Moles" library and periodicals room (https://biblioteca.ucm.es/qui/). The Chemical Sciences Library was inaugurated on June 12, 2003 and is part of the network of Libraries of the Universidad Complutense (BUC, https://biblioteca.ucm.es/). The building has 3 floors:
- At the entrance of the Ground Floor is the loan and information desk, as well as computers for consulting the Library catalogue. On this same floor there is a Reading Room, several Group Work Rooms and the Media Library.
- On the First Floor there is the second Reading Room, the Exhibition Room and a Meeting Room.
- In the Basement there is the Deposit and the Mendeleiev Room, equipped with tables for group work and also as an exhibition space.
More information can be found on the Faculty's website (https://quimicas.ucm.es/instalaciones).
The doctoral programmes taught at the Faculty of Chemical Sciences are held in classrooms with a minimum capacity of 40 students, equipped with air conditioning systems, conventional blackboard, computer projection system, screen, desktop computer, sound system and overhead projector for transparencies.
For working meetings and for the development of tutorials, there are smaller classrooms with a capacity for 18 to 25 students and with identical equipment to the larger classrooms. In both cases, the classroom can be reserved at the Personnel Section.
In addition to conventional classrooms, there are computer rooms with 15 to 60 workstations equipped with desktop computers with wired internet connection (100 Mbps) and wireless (Wi-Fi 53g). These rooms have projection equipment, screens and sound systems to facilitate practical teaching. To guarantee the availability of these resources there is a reservation system, both online and in person. In addition to these spaces, specific computer programs adapted to the teaching needs of each Degree Plan are available. IT services are also available, whose main purpose is to provide technical support to the university community and the technological management of various activities such as teaching, administrative management, communication services and computer support. These functions are accessible to all members of the university community and the service catalogue is available at https://ssii.ucm.es/. Notable services include training courses, the Moodle intranet teaching system within the Virtual Campus, multimedia workshops and cloud-based email accessible to staff and students.
For the presentation and defence of Doctoral Theses and for the delivery of lectures by visiting professors, the Faculty has an Auditorium for 100 people and a Degree Room for 40 people, in addition to the classic Main Hall. All spaces are soundproofed and have a presidential table to accommodate Tribunals and Evaluation Committees.
The Faculty of Chemical Sciences has technicians specializing in IT and audiovisual equipment. In addition, the Universidad Complutense also has Central and Area IT Services that are responsible for the maintenance, updating and installation of equipment and software necessary for the development of teaching and the presentation of research seminars.
The intervention of technicians from these IT services can be requested online through the "SITIO" application (https://www.ucm.es/helpdesk), accessible from the university's web portal (https://ssii.ucm.es/sitio-...).
Research resources of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials
The Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials at UCM (https://www.ucm.es/diqm), located in the Faculty of Chemical Sciences, has 26 research laboratories with numerous facilities and equipment to develop its research lines. Their supervision and maintenance are largely carried out by the five specialist technicians working in the department (https://www.ucm.es/diqm/Recursos). It also has a pilot plant (https://quimicas.ucm.es/planta-piloto).
