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AOM 6735: Irrigation Principles & Management

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This course is designed to teach graduate students about irrigation such that they would have the skills to evaluate an irrigation system, identify parts of a system, and develop an irrigation schedule based on system characteristics. This course is designed for non-engineers although quantitative ability will be required for calculations and analysis.

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Topics covered by the course: 

• Soil and water relationships (infiltration, soil moisture release curves).

• Components of the hydrologic cycle and how they can be measured or estimated.

• Evapotranspiration calculation process and modeling.

• Pros and cons of different irrigation systems and their function.

• Calculating irrigation rates, irrigation efficiency, and plant water use efficiency.

• Irrigation scheduling.