JANUARY 9 - APRIL 10, 2025
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
🗓️ January 9 - April 10, 2025
🕖 Participating two live online lectures every Thursday from 6:00 – 8:00 PM Eastern US Time, or taking the recorded lectures
✏️ Course Fee: $499
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“Introduction to Greenhouse Environmental Control for Crop Production” is a 14-week certificate course designed and offered by ADVANCEA.
The course will provide students with foundational information about the essentials of greenhouse environment control for a variety of commonly-grown crops.
Based on our previous experience offering this course, it was substantially revised and improved with the aim of making it most relevant to beginning and intermediate greenhouse growers.
Who Should Take This Course?
This course will provide a strong understanding of greenhouse environment control to those who are already employed in the industry, or those enrolled in an academic program with desire to learn about environmental controls in greenhouse systems.
The course is designed to be equivalent to an upper-level college course and requires 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 Delivery Method
- Live lectures are scheduled weekly (two lectures per week). All lectures will be recorded for those students who wish to take this course based on recorded lectures.
- Course content management system (D2L Community) will be used.
Learning Materials for Students Access
- Individual login to course site (D2L Community)
- Lecture recordings
- A PDF file of slides used for each lecture
- 10-12 quiz questions for knowledge check for each lecture
- Additional links for reading materials or digital contents/tools
Certificate
- A certificate of completion from The University of Arizona will be granted to students who complete the course.
- Lecture specific quizzes will be used to assess the completion of course.
Course instructors include researchers from the U.S. and the Netherlands (Delphy):
- A.J. Both, Rutgers University
- Chieri Kubota, Ohio State University
- Murat Kacira, University of Arizona
- Peter Ling, Ohio State University
- Guil Signorini, Ohio State University
- Ken Tran, Koidra Inc.
- Stijn Jochems, Delphy
Course Testimonials
“The program was incredibly well-structured and comprehensive, offering a thorough overview of the topics covered. I was particularly impressed by the variety of examples provided, which made the understanding of the presented concepts more accessible.”
“I know I'll refer back to the course materials for years to come”
“The various speakers, including professors and researchers from various companies, provided excellent clarity and demonstrated genuine enthusiasm in their approach to research and sharing their findings. This made the course not only instructive but also extremely engaging.”
“Every aspect of the course was managed with professionalism and attention to detail, ensuring a seamless learning experience.”
“….very useful and practical management strategies….”
