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

最近由各种组织完成的无人机系统（UAS）劳动力研究表明，在国内和国际市场上，UAS技术在工作场所的应用正在爆炸式增长。无人机系统技术几乎有可能影响到经济的每一个部门，并正在彻底改变制造业、应急管理、智能、农业、土木工程、公用事业系统监控和包裹递送。由于无人机能够更安全、更轻松地完成传统的危险作业，因此无人机系统和相关技术正在改变这些任务的执行方式。无人机系统对几乎每一个经济部门和每一个教育学科都有交叉影响。为了利用这一新兴领域提供的机会，“地理空间技术人员教育-无人机系统（geoed - uas）”项目是一个为期三年的项目，重点关注地理空间技术，将开发和实施学术课程和途径，以培养无人机系统操作技术人员（UASOT）在地理空间数据采集、分析和开发等新兴领域取得成功。该项目还将为教师提供专业发展和指导、课程开发和大学前活动，以增加UAS的劳动力管道。GeoTEd-UAS将在两所合作社区学院建立学院和教师能力，并支持这些教师开发UASOT培训途径。活动包括劳动力需求和技能分析、编制UASOT的职责和责任、召集领导力和教师发展研讨会、教师指导、课程开发和学生招聘。合作的社区学院代表了农村和城市地区，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GeoTech中心和GeoTEd网站（http://geoted.org）在全国范围内共享。GeoTEd-UAS项目的合作伙伴包括托马斯·纳尔逊社区学院、山帝国社区学院、弗吉尼亚社区学院系统、弗吉尼亚理工大学和弗吉尼亚太空资助联盟（VSGC）。该项目将由VSGC领导和管理。通过GeoTEd-UAS项目开发的创新型UASOT课程和途径将显著推动该领域的发展，并成为国家模式。

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.