National Geospatial Technology Center (NGT Center)

国家地理空间技术中心（NGT中心）

• 批准号: 0801893
• 负责人: Phillip Davis
• 金额: $ 500万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0801893&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: National; Geospatial; Technology; Center; NGT

The National Geospatial Technology Center (NGT Center) is a partnership of seven community colleges, a community and technical college system, and a four-year university in collaboration with industry and state and local governments representing all regions of the country. In order to better prepare America's 21st century workforce, the vision of the NGT Center is to provide leadership to community and technical colleges in all aspects of emerging geospatial technology. To help increase the number, diversity, and quality of geospatial technology professionals, the mission of the NGT Center is to improve geospatial technology education at the community and technical college level. Intellectual Merit: The NGT Center has the potential to transform the preparation and continuing education of geospatial technicians to meet national workforce demand through its goals to: (1) create a national clearinghouse of exemplary geospatial curriculum materials, resources, and national geodatabase web services; (2) provide a unified voice for two-year colleges and increase their capacity to educate geospatial technicians through new partnerships and collaborations; (3) increase the quantity, quality and diversity of geospatial technicians to meet U.S. workforce needs; (4) increase the number of community and technical college geospatial faculty and secondary school teachers participating in geospatial professional development; and (5) create a self-sustaining center for geospatial technology. Broader Impacts: The institutional partners of NGT serve a diverse student population and include two Hispanic Serving Colleges and two in the Southeast with significant African American enrollment. These partners continue to expand their networks for Hispanic and African American students throughout their service regions and beyond. Individuals with disabilities, especially disabled veterans, provide an untapped resource for geospatial technology workers. The NGT Center is working with various disability agencies to better meet the needs of this population, including the integration of assistive technology devices. The NGT Center partners are actively presenting at a variety of events to increase awareness of resources available to educators, maintain ties to industry workforce instruction needs, and become a unifying voice for two-year programs. The team is dedicated to reaching not only the traditional outlets, but also to new and nontraditional groups such as the League for Innovation, the Association for Career and Technology Education, the National Association of Counties, the Geological Society of America, the American Geological Union, the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development, the National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science, and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

国家地理空间技术中心（NGT中心）是七所社区学院，一个社区和技术学院系统以及一所四年制大学的合作伙伴关系，与代表全国所有地区的行业，州和地方政府合作。为了更好地准备美国的21世纪世纪劳动力，NGT中心的愿景是在新兴地理空间技术的各个方面为社区和技术学院提供领导。为了帮助增加地理空间技术专业人员的数量，多样性和质量，NGT中心的使命是改善社区和技术学院层面的地理空间技术教育。智力优势：NGT中心有潜力通过以下目标改变地理空间技术人员的准备和继续教育，以满足国家劳动力需求：（1）创建示范地理空间课程材料、资源和国家地理数据库网络服务的国家信息交换中心;（2）为两年制学院提供统一的声音，并通过新的伙伴关系和合作提高其教育地理空间技术人员的能力;（3）增加地理空间技术人员的数量，质量和多样性，以满足美国的劳动力需求;（4）增加社区和技术学院地理空间教师和中学教师参与地理空间专业发展的数量;（5）创建一个自我维持的地理空间技术中心。更广泛的影响：NGT的机构合作伙伴服务于多样化的学生群体，包括两所西班牙裔服务学院和两所东南部的非裔美国人入学人数。这些合作伙伴继续扩大他们的网络，为西班牙裔和非洲裔美国学生在他们的服务区域和超越。残疾人，特别是残疾退伍军人，为地理空间技术工作者提供了一种尚未开发的资源。NGT中心正在与各种残疾机构合作，以更好地满足这一人群的需求，包括辅助技术设备的整合。NGT中心的合作伙伴积极出席各种活动，以提高教育工作者对可用资源的认识，保持与行业劳动力教学需求的联系，并成为两年制课程的统一声音。该团队不仅致力于接触传统的渠道，而且还致力于接触新的和非传统的团体，如创新联盟、职业和技术教育协会、全国县协会、美国地质学会、美国地质联合会、美国印第安人企业发展国家中心、全国妇女贸易、技术和科学研究所、和美国退伍军人事务部