GTECH 70800 - Seminar in GeoInformatics

This seminar is an introduction to the wider GeoInformatics field/industry. Students will be exposed to a number of professionals and researchers in the NYC area, and each student will be required to organize their own speaker from the community. The goals of this seminar course are twofold: to introduce students to the wider GeoInformatics community, and to promote networking and lasting interactions with local and regional GeoInformatics professionals. Students will identify, approach, and invite local and/or regional GeoInformatics professionals to give a talk in one of the weekly seminar sessions for this course. Each student will be responsible for bringing in a speaker, and at the end of the course, the student will be required to discuss the speaker’s work, and the research, news, or information that the speaker presented.

Hours 1 hr.
Credits 1 cr.