The institution
On January 9, 2009 will be conducting the conference for Skidmore College’s educators. This is an institution located in New York, to get an idea of this center, these are its numbers information:
- Year of foundation: 1903
- 2,400 Students
- 44 states represented
- 32 countries represented
- Student to Faculty Ratio 9:1
- 59% Women
- 41% Men
- 241 full –time teachers
- Average Class Size: 16
- 100 StudentsClubs
- 19 Athletic Teams
- 43 Academic Departments
- 24,000 alumni
The conference
This is the fourth time that this conference takes place; it aims to promote knowledge and exchange of experiences through the involvement of technical institutions, educators and service providers of geographic information.
In past events, the exhibitors showed topics such as urban planning, GPS systems operation, use of Google Earth in different disciplines and the use of GIS to display the local history.
Although Skidmore GIS Center for Interdisciplinary Research uses ArcGIS 9.2 as primary software for use by students, this year it is including in the Conference theme Manifold GIS.
A good sign that this software is being well received in the educational community, much better if, within the theme will be talking about the sustainability of the use of applications in universities.
The theme of this year.
In this year, the topics of interest are focused towards:
- The use of GIS in the statistical field
- The use and sustainability of the GIS on a University campus
- the using of GIS for visualizing potential development
- GIS y Mercury in the Adirondack Park
- Manifold internet mapping
- Using ESRI Builder Model to automate demographic analysis
- web-based GIS systems