Specific Goals of the Pro-M.S. Degree in GIS/RS:
The goal of this program is to train a new class of professionals with strong scientific and
geospatial qualifications, as well as managerial and business skills. These professionals occupy
leadership positions in corporations that run extensive scientific operations or whose activities
are affected by advances in technology. These future leaders and skilled professionals require
analytical skills beyond what is offered by traditional curricula at the bachelor's or Master's level.
The Department of Geology and Planetary Science created the M.S. program quickly and efficiently
based on the stengeth of its well-established undergraduate certificate and internship connections to
local/regional/national industries. We are attracting students from corporate sources, undergraduate
and non-traditional populations. The proposed courses and internships have been carefully combined
to reflect the real-world requirements needed for careers in the geospatial sciences. The specific
goals of the Internship Program are:
- to solve a challenging problem using GIS/RS, becoming proficient in the software and data analysis
- to prepare and edit a working project document
- to present this history verbally
- to digitally-publish these data/results on CDROM and the web
General Program Rationale:
The broad-based goal of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Initiative is to explore
and, if successful, bring into being, a new type of two-year Professional Master's
Degree in the Sciences that equips people for work outside academia. The programs
now recruiting are of three kinds:
- those that deepen a student's knowledge beyond what can be learned in
a four-year course of study, but stay within a disciplinary domain
- those that fuse scientific fields at a level of depth and complexity hard for
undergraduates to achieve; in many cases, the fusion may be with computer or information
sciences
- those that integrate study in the natural sciences and mathematics with
knowledge and training in management, law, or other professional domains
Further details on the Professional M.S. Degree:
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