Duration
12h Th, 12h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in environmental bioengineering (120 ECTS) | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Mitigation of agricultural practices aims at reducing the adverse impacts of agriculture on environment and public health.
The course presents the concept of mitigation through the description of plant protection product application
The students are asked to transpose concepts seen at theoretical classes to an original agricultural problematic of their choice
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
After completing the course, the student is expected to be capable to apply the mitigation concept to a new agricultural problematic.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Physics (fluid mechanics,..)
Biology (plant physiology,.. )
Systems dynamics (dynamic modelization)
Programming
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
On the basis of theoretical concepts illustrated through the plant protection products application, the student is asked to transpose these concepts to an other probelmatic as livestock effluents of soil fertilisation. ,
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Face-to-face
Recommended or required readings
Dumont, B; Vancutsem, F Seutin, B. & Destain, M.-F. (2012) Simulation of wheat growth using crop models: A review of the methods, potential and limitations. Biotechnology, Agronomy, Society and Environment [=BASE], 16(3), 376-386
Lebeau, F., Verstraete, A., Stainier, C., & Destain, M.-F. (2011). RTDrift: a real time model for estimating spray drift from ground applications. Computers & Electronics in Agriculture, 77(2), 161-174. http://hdl.handle.net/2268/89684
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral presentation to the classroom