Center for Digital Agriculture

Master's Degree in Engineering with Concentration in Digital Agriculture
Become a Digital Agriculture expert

The U of I offers the first 100% online Master’s Degree in Engineering and professional certificates programs in Digital Ag.

These programs are an interdisciplinary effort between CDA, College of ACES, and The Grainger College of Engineering.

Cultivating Functional Safety Workshop
Cultivating Functional Safety Workshop

In collaboration with Balanced Engineering, we are hosting the Cultivating Functional Safety Workshop this summer from June 4th to 6th. Register by May 29th to attend.

New Leadership to Take CDA Into the Future
New Leadership to Take CDA Into the Future

Exciting updates to the leadership team at the Center for Digital Agriculture, including naming UIUC Research Professor John Reid as our new executive director.

CDA Celebrates Five Years of Success
CDA Celebrates Five Years of Success

Since our launch in 2018, our center has grown tremendously. Check out some of our key milestones from the last five years.

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We’re helping researchers, educators, farmers, and industries keep pace with the ways technology is transforming how we feed and support a growing global population.

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We’re researching everything from the nature of the data itself—its collection, storage, transmission, and analysis—to how the data might be used to optimize areas from precision agriculture to food manufacturing to water use and treatment.