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CEE-5120: Emerging Tools for Environmental Field Research

Description: Development and use of custom measurement tools using microcontrollers, low-cost sensors, and emerging technologies. Evaluation of the capabilities, limitations, and specifications of sensors. Design and execution of real-world environmental research with low-cost environmental sensing technologies. Acquisition interpretation of analog and digital data from an environmental sensor. Troubleshooting a circuit and instrument. Design, construction, and use of a prototype instrument. Experimental design for real-world field research. Propose, evaluate and optimize a prototype instrument. Pre: Graduate Standing.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: N/A

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 1

Average GPA: 4.00 (A)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 100.00%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

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