From WolfWikis

The site is designed to facility collaboration amongst the Geographic Information Science Faculty on GIS curriculum and program development issues, as well as research collaboration ideas. Membership is open to all graduate faculty. Additional members nominations can be made below.

GIS Faculty Mission Statement

(One of the topics that surfaced at our meeting on 2/7/2007 was the goals of the GIS Faculty and how they could be expanded beyond the focus on curriculum to become a more active collaborative environment for research. I invite you to elaborate here.)

Program Name

Since we're developing a new program in a new field of science, it's not immediately obvious what we should call it. Suggested names and arguments for/against:

• GISc&T (Geographic Information Science & Technology), the term being used by the UCGIS ^[1], has name recognition.

• Geospatial Science may be more effective at focusing attention on the computational part. Do we want to be more general than "geography"?

• GIS (Geographic Information Science) is what we'll use for now on this site, since it's easy to type, but it has the confusion of being identified with Geographic Information Systems.

• Geospatial Information Science

• Geospatial Technologies - provides a name focused on the geographical aspectic of spatial variability and the technologies available for mapping, interpreting and managing that variability...a shortened version of GISc&T.

Curriculum Topics

• GIS Fall 2007 Program Changes to the graduate certificate in GIS and the graduate minor in GIS were approved on 2/7/2007.

• Proposed programs for 2008

(Proposed) Curriculum for Undergraduate Minor in GIS

What computing coursework should be required in the undergraduate Minor?

• CSC 114/116?
• CSC 200?
• MA 324?

(Proposed) Graduate Certificate in GIS

(Proposed) Master's in GIS

(Proposed) Ph.D. in GIS

Should the Ph.D curriculum contain specializations?

GIS Graduate Level Electives

This List of Graduate Research GIS Topics, compiled by Dr. Helena Mitasova, was used to choose the electives.

Planning Proposal Documents

These are rough drafts of documents describing the proposed programs, including motivation, purpose, curriculum, and funding. At the meeting on 2/7/2007, we invited interested GIS faculty to participate in the revision of these documents. Final drafts will be submitted to the Board of Education for review.

• Compact Planning Proposal for an Interdisciplinary Graduate Program and Undergraduate Minor in Geographic Information Science and Technology, and an Undergraduate Course Series/Minor in Geography

• Appendix B

GIS Faculty List Updates

• Current GIS Faculty List
• New members as of 2/7/2007

Eric N. Wiebe, Ph.D, Professor of Mathematics, Science, and Technology Education

Gene Bressler, ASLA, Chair and Professor of Landscape Architecture

• Membership nominations

Joseph P. Roise, Ph.D., Professor of Forestry (Nominated on 2/7/2007)

Benjamin Watson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Computer Science (Nominated on 2/7/2007)

Meeting Notes

• 2/7/2007 Meeting Notes

GIS Faculty Blog

To facilitate more discourse, we have also created a GIS Faculty Blog. GIS Faculty may post new topics by:

• First, register at wolfblog (basically just enter your username).
• Second, email Laura Tateosian (lgtateos@unity.ncsu.edu) with your request to be an author on GIS Faculty Blog.

1. ↑ University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, 2006, Geographic Information Science &Technology Body of Knowledge, American Association of Geographers, Washing ton, DC.