Stephan Winter
winter@unimelb.edu.au
Tertiary Education Updates:
The University of Melbourne
The Geomatics team
M Vasardani
M Duckham
I Jazayeri
C Ogleby
A Rajabifard
J Leach
S Bleisch
S Winter
A Kealy
N Ronald
M Kalantari
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 and
spatial 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
2011
2012
2013
2014
ME
5
11
9
5*
SI
10
10
30
31*
Total
15
21
39
36*
* Semester I only
(should re-balance with changes 2015)
Accreditations
Institution
Market
Course
Accreditation
cycle
SRBV
Victoria
ME
2014
EA
Washington Accord
ME
2018
http://www.washingtonaccord.org
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:
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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