Congratulations to rising senior and GIS Student Assistant Darin Rockwell, Geography/Geology '13, for landing a very competitive GIS internship for summer 2012 with Lockheed Martin. Currently ranked #58 on the Fortune 500 list, Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs about 123,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, … [Read more...]
GIS Job Opportunities – ESRI
If you are a second semester senior looking for a full-time job or a returning student considering summer internship options, check out the links below from the ESRI newsletter for students and recent graduates.If you don't already know, ESRI is more or less the Microsoft of the GIS world. Having an ESRI job or internship on your resume will open a lot of doors for you in the … [Read more...]
Coming soon to your ArcMap session – a GIANT JACKPOT OF DATA
ESRI just added Business Analyst and Community Analyst to Bucknell's site license. What that means for you is that you will soon have access to several thousand 'ready-to-map' data variables - all within ArcMap. You'll also be able to use tools from the Business Analyst extension to do site selection, customer profiling, market penetration and other types of business … [Read more...]
From the Yale Daily News… “Map on, Maples!”
The Yale Daily News has a great article about the role that the GIS Specialist, Stace Maples, plays on campus. Maples, a fellow ESRI T3G Institute alum from summer 2010, works with faculty and students on integrating GIS into teaching and research at Yale and... ... he is in high demand. Working in the three-person Map Department, a department within the Yale University … [Read more...]
More web tools for helping students understand scale
In previous posts here, here and here I've mentioned different resources that can be useful in helping students understand scale. Joseph Kerski, ESRI's Education Curriculum Development Manager, recently posted to one of the GIS in higher ed listserves about some new web-based tools for teaching students about scale. One of the websites, Scale of the Universe (created by … [Read more...]