Registration for Advancea Academy's upcoming online course, "Introduction to Greenhouse Environmental Control for Crop Production" is open. This certificate course will provide students with foundational information about the essentials of greenhouse environment control for various commonly grown crops.
Course details:
- 9 January - 10 April
- Weekly live sessions with a Q&A on Thursdays.
- Sessions from 6PM to 8PM EST
The course fee is $499.
If you wish to view the course schedule, click here
If you wish to register for the course, click here
Who should take this course?
This course will provide a strong understanding of greenhouse environment control to those already employed in the industry, or those enrolled in an academic program who want to learn about environmental controls in greenhouse systems.
The course is designed to be equivalent to an upper-level college course and requires an entry-level understanding of modern greenhouse production systems.
What you will learn?
In this course with newly updated contents, you will:
- Review various greenhouse crop production systems
- Be able to describe why and how important environmental parameters are controlled using sensors and control systems
- Gain sufficient insight in the basics of energy and mass transfer to understand the key plant-environment interactions in greenhouses
- Learn the basics of sensors and control logic to optimize greenhouse conditions
- Become familiar with recent developments in greenhouse control strategies
Course instructors include researchers from the U.S. & the Netherlands (Delphy)
- A.J. Both, Rutgers University
- Murat Kacira, University of Arizona
- Chieri Kubota, Ohio State University
- Peter Ling, Ohio State University
- Guil Signorini, Ohio State University
- Ken Tran, Koidra Inc.
- Stijn Jochems, Delphy
For more information:
AdvanCEA
Dr. Chieri Kubota, Project Director
[email protected]
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