CEE 5984 : (SPRING 2020) EMERGING TOOLS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL FIELD RESEARCH
Course Description :

The primary goals of the proposed course are to provide students with experience: (1) developing and building custom measurement tools, (2) designing and conducting real-world research, and (3) understanding the capabilities and limitations of emerging tools being wides used by academic, commercial, and citizen scientists. The proposed course will be a project-based experience in which students learn about available technologies, then design, test and evaluate measurement tools by using them to collect data in self-designed field and lab experiments. Students will work in small groups to design and build a prototype instrument and use it to collect real-world data. which tell will analyze to evaluate their design capabilities, as well as the environmental parameters they choose to measure.

Specific Course Objectives :
  • Describe the availability, strengths and weaknesses of various low-cost measurement technologies.
  • Demonstrate the collection of analog and digital data from environmental sensors
  • Design tools to make environmental measurements
  • Collaborate with a small group to build a tool for environmental measurements
  • Design a field research experiment to meet specific goals
  • Analyze and visualize real-world environmental data
  • Evaluate the capabilities and limitation of a measurement tool
Hours & Credits :
3H, 3C
Semester Offered :
Spring