Overview

To view overview information, please select an offering from the drop-down menu above.

Academic contacts

To view unit coordinator information, please select an offering from the drop-down menu above.

Offerings

MURDOCH-S2-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING

To view more information about assessments, contacts and learning activities specific to one of these offerings, please select an offering from the drop-down menu above.

Other learning activities

To view other learning activity information, please select an offering from the drop-down menu above.

Learning activities

To view learning activity information, please select an offering from the drop-down menu above.

Learning outcomes

1.

Critically review, analyse, consolidate and synthesise knowledge related to technological solutions for practicality and economic advantage

2.

Apply and communicate knowledge of how contemporary and future agricultural technologies will advance sustainable food and fibre production

3.

Apply knowledge of technologies to solve and manage specific problems in the context of sustainable food and fibre production

4.

Demonstrate proficiency in the collection, analysis, visualisation and application of digital data to solve and manage problems associated with sustainable food and fibre production

5.

Effectively articulate agricultural technology concepts to scientific peer groups and the broader community

Assessments

To view assessment information, please select an offering from the drop-down menu above.

Additional information

Unit content:

This unit is to ensure that you have knowledge and experience of the most up-to-date methods in agricultural and environmental technology practice that we can offer. Today’s precision farming can achieve great efficiency, productivity and environmental protection if sufficiently detailed and current information about the land, the weather, the soil and the plants is collected, analysed and acted upon. A number of important key technologies, such as sensor networks, GIS mapping systems, data analytic and visualisation tools, automated weather stations, and robots are now becoming part of modern farming practice. Agricultural and environmental scientists need to understand, use and critically evaluate these technologies. The different technology systems will be introduced in lectures. Practical exercises in a computer lab and real, instrumented test crops on Murdoch’s farms will rehearse the necessary skills. Your project will bring together your knowledge and skills to produce an assessable package.