Geospatial Technician Education-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (GeoTEd-UAS)

多个组织最近完成的无人机系统(UAS)劳动力研究表明，UAS技术在工作场所的使用在国内和国际市场上呈爆炸性增长。UAS技术有可能影响到几乎每个经济部门，并正在给制造业、应急管理、情报、农业、土木工程、公用事业系统监测和包裹递送带来革命性的变化。由于UAS和相关技术能够更安全地完成传统上危险的工作，更容易完成困难的工作，因此UAS和相关技术正在改变这些任务的执行方式。无人机对几乎每个经济部门和每个教育学科都有贯穿各领域的影响。为了利用这一新兴部门提供的机会，为期三年、侧重于地理空间技术的“地理空间技术员教育--无人驾驶飞机系统”项目将开发和实施学术课程和途径，使无人驾驶飞机系统业务技术员能够在地理空间数据获取、分析和利用等新兴领域取得成功。该项目还将提供教师专业发展和指导、课程开发和大学预科活动，以增加UAS的劳动力管道。GeoTEd-UAS将在两所合作的社区学院建设学院和教职员工的能力，并支持这些教职员工为UASOT培训开发途径。活动包括劳动力需求和技能分析，汇编UASOT的职责和职责，召开领导力和教师发展研讨会，教师指导，课程开发和招生。合作的社区学院代表农村和城市地区，使该项目扩大了许多代表性不足的群体的参与。项目材料和资源将通过岩土技术中心和GeoTEd网站(http://geoted.org).)在全国共享GeoTEd-UAS项目合作伙伴包括托马斯·纳尔逊社区学院、山地帝国社区学院、弗吉尼亚社区学院系统、弗吉尼亚理工大学和弗吉尼亚空间赠款联盟(VSGC)。该项目将由VSGC领导和管理。通过GeoTEd-UAS项目开发的创新的UASOT课程和途径将极大地推动这一领域的发展，并成为国家典范。

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) workforce studies recently completed by various organizations show that the utilization of UAS technology in the workplace is exploding in the domestic and international markets. UAS technology has the potential to impact nearly every sector of the economy and is revolutionizing manufacturing, emergency management, intelligence, agriculture, civil engineering, utility systems monitoring and package delivery. Because they have the ability to complete traditionally hazardous jobs more safely and difficult jobs more easily, UAS and related technologies are changing the way these tasks are performed. UAS have a cross-cutting impact on nearly every sector of the economy and every educational discipline. To take advantage of the opportunities provided by this emerging sector, the "Geospatial Technician Education-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (GeoTEd-UAS)" project, a three-year effort that focuses on geospatial technologies, will develop and implement academic courses and pathways to prepare Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operations Technicians (UASOT) to succeed in the emerging fields of geospatial data acquisition, analysis and exploitation. The project will also provide faculty professional development and mentoring, curriculum development, and precollege activities to increase the UAS workforce pipeline. GeoTEd-UAS will build college and faculty capacity at two partnering community colleges and support these faculty to develop pathways for UASOT training. Activities include workforce needs and skills analysis, compilation of the duties and responsibilities of a UASOT, convening of leadership and faculty development workshops, faculty mentoring, curriculum development and student recruitment. The partnering community colleges represent rural and urban locations allowing the project to broaden the participation of many underrepresented groups. Project materials and resources will be shared nationally through the GeoTech Center and the GeoTEd website (http://geoted.org). GeoTEd-UAS project partners include Thomas Nelson Community College, Mountain Empire Community College, the Virginia Community College System, Virginia Tech, and the Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC). The project will be led and administered by the VSGC. The innovative UASOT courses and pathways being developed through the GeoTEd-UAS project will advance the field significantly and serve as national models.