Registration Now Open for the ADVANCEA Academy
October 17, 2024 The “Introduction to Greenhouse Environmental Control for Crop Production” is a 14-week certificate course designed and offered by ADVANCEA, a collaborative research and extension program funded by the USDA NIFA Specialty Crop Research Initiative. The course will provide students with foundational information about the essentials of greenhouse environment control for a variety of commonly-grown crops.
Based on ADVANCEA’s previous experience offering this course, it was substantially revised and improved with the aim of making it relevant to beginner and intermediate greenhouse growers.
Who Should Take This Course?
The 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 who want to learn about environmental controls in greenhouse systems.
Designed to be equivalent to an upper-level college course, the class requires entry-level understanding of modern greenhouse production systems.
What You Will Learn
In this course, 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
Instructors for the ADVANCEA Academy in 2025
Course Instructors Include Researchers From the U.S. and the Netherlands
- A.J. Both, Ph.D., Rutgers University
- Chieri Kubota, Ph.D., The Ohio State University
- Murat Kacira, University of Arizona
- Peter Ling, The Ohio State University
- Guil Signorini, Ph.D., The Ohio State University
- Ken Tran, Koidra Inc.
- Stijn Jochems, Delphy
The course is specifically designed for individuals with a non-engineering background and entry-level understanding of controlled environment crop production in greenhouses.
The course can be taken synchronously live or asynchronously through recordings and will take place from January 9 to April 10, 2025.
If you’d like more information about the course or have specific questions, reach out to Dr. Chieri Kubota at kubota.10@osu.edu.