Murat Kacira

Interim Head, Department of Biosystems Engineering
Director, Controlled Environment Agriculture Program
Member of the Graduate Faculty
Professor, Agricultural-Biosystems Engineering
Professor, Applied BioSciences - GIDP

Shantz, 403

520-626-4254
mkacira@cals.arizona.edu

Murat Kacira is director of the Controlled Environment Agriculture Center and he is a professor in the Biosystems Engineering Department at the University of Arizona. He received his B.S. degree in Agricultural Engineering in Cukurova University in Turkey and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering from The Ohio State University in USA. His research involves automation, environmental control, alternative energy integrated CEA systems and resource use optimization in controlled environment agriculture systems including greenhouses and vertical farming based plant factories with artificial lighting. He is a member of American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) and International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS). He serves as Chair of the Division Precision Horticulture Engineering under ISHS.

Research Interest
Phytomonitoring, machine vision for plant health and growth monitoring, resource use optimization in CEA systems, aerodynamics analysis of CEA systems using computational fluid dynamics, alternative energy integrated CEA systems.
Offering Research Opportunities
Yes
Prerequisite Courses
None
Majors Considered
Biosystems Engineering, Biosystems Analytics and Technology, Sustainable Plant Systems, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Systems and Industrial Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Types of Opportunities
Paid
Volunteer
For credit
Description of Opportunity
No description given
Start Date
End Date
College
College of Engineering
Primary Department
Biosystems Engineering
Affiliated Departments
Biosystems Engineering
Department of Biosystems Engineering
Research Location
Tucson main campus