Center for Digital Agriculture
This fully online, interdisciplinary program includes classes in the Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Computer Science, and Crop Sciences departments at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
To earn the certificate, students must successfully complete 12 credit hours of courses, all of which can be transferred to the master’s degree program.
General Certification requirements:
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- Bachelor’s degree
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- Complete at least 12 credit hours. See individual certificate requirements below.
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- Take courses for academic credit and earn a minimum average GPA of
- Students must apply and be accepted to the non-degree program before registering for classes that are part of the certificate
- Coursework cannot be used to qualify for multiple certificates but can count towards the M.Eng in Digital Ag program.
Become a leader in Digital Ag with a professional certificate from our program.
CERTIFICATE TITLES:
This certificate does not require the CS prerequisite like the M.Eng or other certificates. If a student opts to transfer into the M.Eng in Digital Agriculture program they will need to meet the CS prerequisite before being admitted to the M.Eng program.
Required Courses:
ABE 440 Applied Statistical Methods I (4 hrs)
CPSC 444 Introduction to Spatial Analytics (4 hrs)
Pick one:
CPSC 541 Regression Analysis (5 hrs)
CPSC 542 Applied Statistical Methods II (5 hrs)
CPSC 543 Applied Multivariate Statistics (4 hrs)
Required Courses:
ABE 526 Autonomous Decision Making (4 hrs)
ABE 426 Principles of Mobile Robotics (4 hrs)
Pick One:
ABE 498 Machine Vision for Agricultural and Industrial Applications (4hrs)
CS 437 Internet of Things (4 hrs)
ABE 425 Engineering Measurement Systems (4hrs)
Required Courses:
CS 441 Applied Machine Learning (4hrs)
ABE 498 Machine Vision for Agricultural and Industrial Applications (4hrs)
Pick at least 4hrs:
CS 598 Practical Statistical Learning (4hrs)
ABE 526 Autonomous Decision Making (4 hrs)
CS 410 Text Information Systems (4 hrs)
ABE 498 Understanding Human Impact of A.I. (2 hrs)
CS 437 Internet of Things (4 hrs)
ABE 498 Machine Vision for Agricultural and Industrial Applications (4hrs)
Pick One:
CS 425 Cloud Computing Concepts (4 hrs)
ABE 526 Autonomous Decision Making (4 hrs)
CS 498 Cloud Computing Applications (4 hrs)
CS 498 Cloud Networking (4 hrs)
Required Courses:
CPSC 499 Data Processing and Analysis (4hrs)
CS 412 Introduction to Data Mining (4 hrs)
Pick one:
CS 598 Practical Statistical Learning (4 hrs)
CS 410 Text Information Systems (4 hrs)
ABE 498 Data and Uncertainty Analysis (4 hrs)
This certificate allows students some customization if the other certificates do not meet their needs. Student will need to select 12 hours of coursework from the approved list. Students must take at least 4hrs CS classes from that list and at least 4hrs of classes from either ABE or CPSC on that list. The remaining hours are up to the student to select courses that best fit their needs.
Certificates #2-6 require that students have the CS prerequisite to be eligible.
Tuition rates for the Digital Agriculture Certificates follow the Online Graduate Professional rate. The rates for the current academic year are listed here.