Geographic Information Systems Workshop for Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement

密歇根理工大学将在地理信息系统（GIS）领域举办一系列讲习班。这些研讨会对于保持本科教职员工掌握地理信息系统的新思想和新技术至关重要。这将导致地理信息系统课程的更新。因此，本科生将获得作为GIS专家就业所需的适当知识和培训。两个为期两周的讲习班将在密歇根州霍顿市密歇根理工大学林业和木材产品学院举行。研讨会将为参与者提供一个会面的机会，接收最新的信息，获得实践经验，交流想法，并为本科GIS课程开发适当的讲座和实验练习。此外，与会者将会见几位GIS经理，了解GIS在日常基础上是如何运作的，并确定员工认为对GIS本科学生来说重要的是什么。项目的成功将由一份问卷来决定，该问卷将评估研讨会的质量以及作为研讨会一部分而开发的讲座和实验手册的效用。除了国家科学基金会的资金外，参与机构还将为项目的运营提供大约15%的差旅费用。

Michigan Technological University will operate a series of workshops in the area of geographic information systems (GIS). The workshops are critical to fill a need in keeping undergraduate faculty members abreast of new ideas and techniques utilizing geographic information systems. This will result in the updating of GIS courses. Hence undergraduates will have the appropriate knowledge and training for employment as a GIS specialist. Two two-week workshops will be held at the School of Forestry and Wood Products, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan. The workshops will provide the participants with an opportunity to meet, receive state-of the art information, gain hands-on experience, exchange ideas, and develop appropriate lectures and laboratory exercises for undergraduate GIS courses. In addition, attendees will meet with several GIS managers to see how a GIS operates on a day-to-day basis, and determine what employees deem important for undergraduate GIS students to know. Success of the project will be determined by a questionnaire assessing both the quality of the workshop and the utility of the lecture and lab manual developed as part of the workshop. In addition to the NSF funds, participants institutions will provide about 15% in travel costs toward the operation of the project.