Adding Full-Featured GIS Capability to an Undergraduate Curriculum

地理信息系统（GIS）培训对任何强环境/资源本科学位都越来越重要。该项目获得了所需的设备，以便：(1)在几个现有课程中增加ARC/INFO培训；(2)在空间数据中实现新的类；(3)有ARC/INFO提供给学生做要求的本科研究论文；(4)与更广泛的本科教育界分享经验。六台基于奔腾的个人电脑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座许可证中。本项目可作为高等地理信息系统教学与研究与本科自然资源领域相结合的典范，这是一个相对较新的尝试。

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.