Duration
24h Th, 48h Pr
Number of credits
| Master in environmental bioengineering (120 ECTS) | 6 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
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.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
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 and applies multidisciplinary knowledges and skills (systems dynamics, mechanics, control engineering, building physics and special techniques, irrigation, plant physiology, environmental metrology, image analysis,...)
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Physics
Mathematics
Biology
Chemistry
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Research and project-based learning
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Face to face
Project
Recommended or required readings
Kozai Toyoki, Niu Genhua, Takagaki Michiko, 2015, Plant Factory - An Indoor Vertical Farming System for Efficient Quality Food Production, ISBN : 0-12-801775-9
Kozai Toyoki, Fujiwara Kazuhiro, Runkle Erik S., 2016, LED Lighting for Urban Agriculture, ISBN 978-981-10-1848-0
Assessment methods and criteria
Written report and oral presentation
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
The project requires a face-and is not subject to an assessment in second session