Environmental Engineering Applications of GIS

1.961 Special Graduate Studies in Civil and Environmental Engineering

Fall 2001 Term

 

Instructor: Daniel Sheehan

TA: Christiaan Adams

 

Course Syllabus

 

The class will meet twice a week for five weeks from 9/10/01 through 10/17.  Students will work on group projects for a two weeks.  Students will present the results of their group projects starting on November 7.

 

Introduction to GIS Guest Speaker, Enrique Vivoni, Course 1 PhD Candidate, Introduction to Athena

9/10/01

Class cancelled, 9/11/01

9/12/01

Student Holiday

9/17/01

Introduction to Arcview, Arcview lab exercise

9/19/01

Representing and using terrain data in a GIS, acquiring DEM, watershed delineation exercise

9/24/01

Using remotely sensed data in a GIS, Guest Speaker, Sarah Williams, MIT Libraries GIS Specialist, remotely sensed data exercise

9/26/01

Using GIS for Site Selection, Guest speaker: Scott Fitzgerald, MEng 1998, Site selection exercise

10/01/01

Site selection exercise, continued

10/3/01

Columbus Day Holiday

10/8/01

Acquiring Data, Metadata, and Map Projections, map projection exercise

10/10/01

Introduction to ArcGIS 8.1 hydrologic modeling tools

10/15/01

Introduction to group projects

10/17/01

Independent work on group projects

10/22/01

Independent work on group projects

10/24/01

Independent work on group projects

10/29/01

Independent work on group projects

10/31/01

Group presentations

11/07/01

Group presentations

11/09/01