A NEW MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAM IN GEODESY

Paweł Wysocki; Dominika Wróblewska

doi:10.21125/iceri.2019.2378

A NEW MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAM IN GEODESY

Abstract

Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering (WILiS) at Gdansk University of Technology (GUT) offers studies in the fields of Geodesy and Cartography. The bachelor program (7 semesters) was started ten years ago in 2009. It provides the student with the basic skills and knowledge in the fields of surveying, geodesy and more generally geomatics and cartography. It is strongly related to expertise knowledge of civil building (geodetic monitoring systems) and environmental engineering (photogrammetry and laser detection). During 2014 - 2017 years students were able to continue studying at postgraduate course and get MSc degree at Surveying Techniques in Engineering, an inter-faculty course. The observation of the labour market requirements indicated the need for graduates prepared to solve specific knowledge enabling solving engineering problems and with wide set of soft skills. As a response, a new master degree program in the field of geodesy and cartography was prepared and started in 2017 in specialization of geomatics and geoinformatics. This studies prepare the graduate for employment in surveying and research companies with interdisciplinary knowledge and a special focus on geomatics and geoinformatics or photogrammetry and remote sensing. The curriculum is also prepared to enable graduates to gain professional qualifications in the field of photogrammetry and remote sensing. The article presents objectives, structure and contents of a new master degree level studies and its relation to the labour qualifications and research conducted by academic teachers employed in Department of Geodesy