0 or 3 credits
Fall 2026 Lecture Laboratory Upper Division
This course is designed to provide undergraduate (senior level) and graduate students with the knowledge of a wide range of environmental and plant sensors and automation devices for horticultural crop production, especially controlled environment production. Lectures will focus on the theory and application of different plant and environmental sensors, electronic devices and computer programming for automation and environmental control using sensors while the laboratory activities provide hands-on experience on the application of sensors and automation devices to control below and above-ground environment during production.
Learning Outcomes1Examine theory associated with different environmental and plant sensor measurements.
2Implement methods to interface sensors to measurement devices such as dataloggers and micro-controllers and program them for automated and continuous sensor measurements.
3Examine digital sensing technologies based on image analysis.
4Demonstrate knowledge and practice hands-on experience with precision environmental control using datalogger and microcontrollers.
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