Adding Full-Featured GIS Capability to an Undergraduate Curriculum

地理信息系统(GIS)培训对于任何优秀的环境/资源本科学位来说都越来越重要。该项目购买了必要的设备，以实现：(1)在几个现有班级中增加ARC/INFO培训；(2)实施新的空间数据课程；(3)向完成所需本科生研究论文的学生提供ARC/INFO；以及(4)与更广泛的本科生教育界分享经验。六台基于奔腾的PC和一台大幅面绘图仪将被添加到现有的工作站和ARC/INFO的6席位许可证中。该项目可以作为一个模式，将高水平的地理信息系统教学和研究与本科水平的自然资源领域相结合，这是一个相对较新的努力。

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) training is increasingly essential to any strong environmental/resource undergraduate degree. This project acquires the needed equipment to allow: (1) adding ARC/INFO training to several existing classes; (2) implementing new classes in spatial data; (3) having ARC/INFO available to students doing the required undergraduate research thesis; and (4) sharing experiences with the broader undergraduate education community. Six Pentium-based PCs and a large-format plotter are being added to the existing workstation and 6-seat license for ARC/INFO. This program can serve as a model for combining high-level GIS instruction and research with the natural resource field at the undergraduate level, which is a relatively new endeavor.