Geog 464 GIS-based Decision Support Lab Summary and Schedule

Updated January 31, 2012

Lab Summary and Schedule

Assignment	Sections	Start dates	Due Dates
Creating a Wastewater Recycling Functional Plan
ArcCatalog tutorial (optional) Lab 1 Geodatabase Developmen for Gray Water Facility Siting - 25 points Students scope a problem, complete a database design and implement that database design for a functional planning decision situation associated wastewater recycling facilities.	AC AA	1/4 1/5	1/11 1/12
Monday, January 16th Holiday -- Martin Luther King Day
Lab 2 Preliminary Analysis - 25 points Students perform a preliminary analysis for a wastewater recycling facilities plan.	AC AA	1/11 1/12	1/18 1/19
Lab 3 Final Analysis - 25 points Students perform final analysis for a wastewater recycling facility plan	AC AA	1/18 1/19	1/25 1/26
Formulating a Capital Improvement Program
Lab 4 Natural Capital Improvement Programming - 25 points Students perform tradeoff analysis as part of a wastewater capital improvement programming decision situation as a way of prioritizing anticipated expenditures for the community.	AC AA	1/25 1/26	2/1 2/2
Moving Forward with Natural Capital Project Implementation
Lab 5 Database Development for Capital Project Implementation - 25 points Students extend the planning database to address capital project implementation. More data details are needed to characterize various impacts such as those related to traffic and wetlands.   Stakeholder perspectives	AC AA	2/1 2/2	2/8 2/9
Lab 6 Assessing Traffic and Environmental Impacts - 25 points Students perform traffic and wetlands impact analysis for a wastewater recycling facility site.	AC AA	2/8 2/9	2/17 2/17
Monday, February 20th Holiday -- Presidents' Day
Final Project in 4 parts – total 50 points Students in two- or three-person groups are mandatory will choose a GIS topic of interest to them and execute the project in multiple phases.	AC AA		To be scheduled
Final Project Report	AC AA	Peer Review	hard copy due at the time of exam 2