Study Programmes 2015-2016
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| Controlled environment agriculture | ||||||||
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Duration :
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| 24h Th, 24h Pr, 24h AUTR | ||||||||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Frédéric Lebeau | ||||||||
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| French language | ||||||||
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January | ||||||||
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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | ||||||||
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Course contents :
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| Controlled environment agriculture is a new agronomic paradigm that aims at a crop production fully independant from outdoor conditions. If space eploration has been the fist technical field to be work on this for long stay, recent technological developments bring this agriculture closer to economical viability. Furthermore, this technology may offer some environmental virtues as water savings, pesticide free agriculture, very high yields or easy integration in urban environment for short food supply chain.
The course aims at the investigation on such developments by an imersion in research and development of the laboratory on this subject. |
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| The course train students to the design of technological solutions that aims to define equipments, systems and infrastructure of food production that respect the environment
The student must succeed to conduct a project whose specifications are complex and interlinked without any predefined methodology on the basis of partial information The student aims to achieve engineering objectives in the strategic context of the project |
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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| Physics
Mathematics Biology Chemistry |
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| Research and project-based learning | ||||||||
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| Face to face
Project |
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Recommended or required readings :
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| Written report and oral examination | ||||||||
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| The project requires a face-and is not subject to an assessment in second session | ||||||||
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Contacts :
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