A Laboratory for Undergraduate GIS Education

本建议书中要求的计算机设备将构成 地理学本科新课程分支核心 东华盛顿大学的信息系统（GIS） 地理系。新的GIS实验室将允许 新的本科课程在空间的发展 分析技术和更新现有课程。 学生将受益于综合性的多样性 培训。这些设备也将有助于我们的 通过提供技术背景， 研究地理信息系统在经济中的使用和误用， 政治，科学和社会环境，它是 应用。

The computer equipment requested in this proposal will form the core of a new undergraduate curriculum branch in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) at Eastern Washington University's Department of Geography. The new GIS laboratory will allow both the development of new undergraduate courses in spatial analysis techniques and the updating of existing courses. Students will benefit from the diversity of comprehensive training.The equipment will also contribute to our undergraduate curriculum by providing the technical backcloth for studying the uses and misuses of GIS in the economic, political, scientific, and social environments in which it is applied.