Gee… I’m not so lofty in my goals. I just ask that my students remember that it’s pronounced <<JEE-I-EHSS>> and NOT <<GHIS>>

 

 

 

Hopefully what they really leave with is “Maybe someday I too can be as brilliant as Jarlath…if I use obscure lidar software and agree with everything he says.”

 

That’s my strategy – except for the lidar software part.

 

 

 

Learning a major software package may open you up to more jobs, but being good with an obscure package might make you a top candidate for the job you really want. ArcGIS may land you 30 job interviews, but get you no jobs whereas having experience with some rather obscure lidar package will get you one interview and the job.

 

The most important thing I instill in my students is my general brilliance in the field of geospatial technology. I want them to leave my class thinking “I may not have learned anything, but Jarlath is a genius.” (sarcasm)

 

 

 

Leslie, thank you so much for setting up this survey. As an educator, I’m very curious to see the results and I hope you can parse them by industry. I often wonder if gov agencies still strongly prefer ArcGIS whereas a start-up might prefer QGIS, etc. I also agree with Jarlath that things will change rapidly and focusing on one thing is helpful. But, students always ask for guidance in making that choice (ex, we teach both ArcGIS and QGIS here) and I try to help them decide based on their career goals – perhaps this survey will enlighten me on a different approach.

 

Thank you,

Jessie Braden

 

 

Jessie Braden | Director, SAVI

 

PRATT INSTITUTE

Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative

200 Willoughby Avenue | ISC Lower Level | Brooklyn, NY 11205

718.399.4414 | [log in to unmask] | www.pratt.edu/savi

@jessiebraden | @prattsavi 

 

 

 

 

 

I agree 100% with Jarlath, but it also occurs to me to ask the members of the listserv Christina’s real question. As an employer – do you care greatly whether a potential employee has geospatial software experience with a particular product or just enough experience to apply their knowledge and learn any product? Since I have gotten in trouble before for asking questions that end up causing too much email traffic…I will make a simple survey monkey to collect some responses…..And then report back the results.

 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LMD9VCS

 

LP

 

 

 

Honestly I don’t think it matters, whatever you teach it will have radically changed in 2-3 years. The software packages have such similar capabilities, the challenge is not overloading students with so many different geospatial solutions that they spend more time learning the buttonology than doing things.

 

Blog: http://letters-sal.blogspot.com/

 

------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list (NEARC-L) is an unmoderated discussion list for all NEARC Users.

If you no longer wish to receive e-mail from this list, you can remove yourself by going to http://s.uconn.edu/nearcsubscribe.

------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list (NEARC-L) is an unmoderated discussion list for all NEARC Users.

If you no longer wish to receive e-mail from this list, you can remove yourself by going to http://s.uconn.edu/nearcsubscribe.

------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list (NEARC-L) is an unmoderated discussion list for all NEARC Users.

If you no longer wish to receive e-mail from this list, you can remove yourself by going to http://s.uconn.edu/nearcsubscribe.

------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list (NEARC-L) is an unmoderated discussion list for all NEARC Users.

If you no longer wish to receive e-mail from this list, you can remove yourself by going to http://s.uconn.edu/nearcsubscribe.

------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list (NEARC-L) is an unmoderated discussion list for all NEARC Users.

If you no longer wish to receive e-mail from this list, you can remove yourself by going to http://s.uconn.edu/nearcsubscribe.

------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list (NEARC-L) is an unmoderated discussion list for all NEARC Users.

If you no longer wish to receive e-mail from this list, you can remove yourself by going to http://s.uconn.edu/nearcsubscribe.