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Transcript of Tertiary Education Updates: The University of Melbourne Stephan Winter [email protected].
The Geomatics team
A Kealy
A Rajabifard C Ogleby
M Duckham
M Kalantari
J Leach
S Winter
I Jazayeri
S Bleisch
M Vasardani
N Ronald
150 years counting
• 1862:– first professor for surveying / first surveying program
• 2008:– new generation 5 year degrees,
world-wide accredited
• 2011:– new department
• 2014:– just graduated second cohort
Today
• Challenge:– Sell surveying to a different cohort:
changed expectations
• Solution (2015):– ME (Spatial)*
surveying andspatial information
– MIT (Spatial)spatial information and IT
“The primary focus of the discipline has moved from measurement science, which could be considered the data acquisition aspect, to the management and enhancement of the spatial dimension of information technology”
(Williamson, in Bervoets et al., 1999, p. iii)
* pending approval of Academic Board
People voting by feet
(should re-balance with changes 2015)
ME SI Total2011 5 10 152012 11 10 212013 9 30 392014 5* 31* 36*
* Semester I only
Accreditations
Institution Market Course Accreditation cycle
SRBV Victoria ME 2014
EA Washington Accordhttp://www.washingtonaccord.org
ME 2018
RICS Commonwealth ME, MSISc annually
EUR-ACE European Union ME, MSISc 2015
• Advanced benchmarking and mobility– Individual graduate attributes and
professional competencies
• Practice virtually anywhere in the world
ASIERA
• Your representing body in tertiary education– several hundred people in fundamental and
applied research and innovation, and educating the future generations of professionals
– accesses the international networks of similar international institutions
• Objectives– To foster and promote tertiary education and
research in geospatial information
• Research@Locate (7-9 April 2014)
© Copyright The University of Melbourne 2012
The Melbourne Geomatics graduate
Industry is transforming … facing hypes, disruptive technologies, economic pressures:
– Specialist knowledge moves into software– Novel sensors speed up processes (LiDar, Citizen)– Real-time demand, fusion of sensors– Automation and digital workflow– Cadastre for securing the economy
• 65% of the land surface not in a cadastre• Design of LA systems, refinement of systems
