Nova Scotia Community College (Annapolis Valley Campus)
Lawrencetown, NS
Company Overview
The Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS), is a specialized, high technology training centre of the Annapolis Valley Campus of the Nova Scotia Community College with buildings located in the neighbouring towns of Lawrencetown and Middleton, Nova Scotia, Canada. Its purpose is to train technicians and technologists in various Geomatics and Information Technology disciplines. Programs are from one to three years' duration and are extremely intensive.
Entry programs currently offered: Cartography: Digital Mapping technology, Planning: Land Information Technology, Computer Programming Technician, Survey Technician, Business Information Technology, Applied Communication Arts, Office Information Technology.
Advanced entry programs include: Geomatics Engineering Technology, Business Administration, Graphic Design, Computer Programmer/Analyst.
Post-degree programs include: Computer Programming-Advanced, Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing, Integrated Studies in GIS/RS, Business Geographics, and Marine Geomatics.
COGS is the longest established component of the Nova Scotia Community College. It has an excellent reputation as indicated by the number of employers from Canada and the US who repeatedly return to hire graduates. COGS recently celebrated its 52nd year as a specialized training institution, the only one of its kind in Canada. The institution prides itself on being in the forefront of Geomatics sector training and education since its inception.
COGS offers a small and integrated training environment with approximately 400 students and 30 instructors in full time programs. There are also additional students and instructional staff for the part time programs it offers. Training is highly intensive, demanding, and maintains high standards.
Transfer credit arrangements have been established with Acadia University, St. Francis Xavier University, University of New Brunswick, University of Calgary, the University of Maine, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and Memorial University of Newfoundland at both graduate and undergraduate level.
EXTENSION SERVICES FOR INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS
Extension Services is a division of the Centre. It is a leader in customized professional and technical training, providing key theoretical training through programs in close partnership with local business and industry and is aspiring to offer these services on an international level.
The focus of customized training is working in partnership with professional training consultants to develop programs which meet the unique needs of business and the workforce. Customized training programs can be offered anywhere, for example: on campus, at the workplace, at an independent location (host country) or through teleconferencing. These programs can be scheduled during work hours or on evenings and weekends.
The Centre can:
-Customize training to highly specific, market driven needs -Provide flexible, reliable, and cost effective solutions -Demonstrate a track record of superior quality and expertise
We can assess the specific needs of clients and provide a customized solution to meet the requirements of these clients.
Company Information
Physical Address
50 Elliott Rd
Lawrencetown, NS B0S 1M0
CA
Mailing Address
50 Elliott Rd
Lawrencetown, NS B0S 1M0
CA
Additional Details
Legal Name: Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS)
Number of Employees: 40
CA
COGS has a wide range of contemporary equipment to support its programs. Among its resources are real-time Trimble GPS equipment, a variety of total station and laser alignment apparatus. The Computer Services office supports the computer needs of all campus programs. There are five computer teaching labs at the Lawrencetown site, and there are five labs plus another two labs/classrooms at the Middleton site. All of the labs are connected with Ethernet cabling (catagory 5(CAT%) and thinnet), and run the various protocols necessary to connect to our Unix, Novell and Windows NT servers.
Included in our equipment are a Sun Ultra Enterprise 450 nserver, two Sun Ultra Enterprise 150 servers, a Sun Sparc20 server and ten Sun Sparc5 workstation, all running Solaris 2. x, a Silicon Graphics Workstation running Irix, a DEC Alpha 3000/400s server running VMS, four Pentium-class machines running Novell NetWare. We have approximately 160 Pentium-class machines and 70 486-class machines, all capable of accessing software located on our Novell, Windows NT and Unix servers. The majority of our microcomputers have Windows NT Workstation as their operating system. Also, most are capable of running software from the Unix machines using X-terminal emulation software. In addition, there are 25 Power Macs at the Middleton site. Output devices consist of various laser printers, including a Lexmark Optra C color laser, an HP DraftMaster pen plotter, an HP Design Jet 350C ink jet plotter, Epson Stylus Pro XL ink jet printers and an Iris realist 5015 ink jet printer. There are several Calcomp digitizing tables as well as digitizing tablets, various digital cameras, and color scanners.
For each program there are particular software packages that are important for training. Among these are: ARC/INFO, ArcView, SPANS, MAPINFO, IDRISI, PCI EASI/PACE, CARIS, PAMAP, ERDAS, AutoCad, C&G Survey, GPSurvey, Pathfinder, SKI, Softdesk, Autodesk 3D Studio, Oracle, Visual dBASE, INGRES, FOXPRO, MS Office 97, Corel PerfectOffice Suite, SPSS, Maple, Page Maker, CorelDraw, Fortran, C, C++, Java, Visual Basic, Pascal, Turbo Pascal.
COGS has an Internet site connected to newsgroups, electronic mail, university libraries, etc. anywhere in the world. Our home page is located at http: //www. cogs. nscc. ns. ca
Contacts
Janet Specht
Title: Regional Manager of customised training
Area of Responsibility: Management Executive
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Bruce Hicks
Title: Dept. Head, Geomatics
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Dennis Kingston
Title: Dept. Head, IT
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David Woolnough
Title: Director
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Constance Huyer
Title: Student Services Officer
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Services
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Customized Training
The Extension Services Division was established in 1995. The division will design courses to meet your specific needs. Utilizing the services of quality instructors, Extension Services offers a wide variety of courses. Training can be provided on campus, at an independent location, or through distance education.
Extension Services has a proven track record of expertise in the field of geomatics and information technology training. Some examples of courses offered include:
- GIS fundamentals
- GPS training using Trimble equipment
- Website Development
We can provide flexible, reliable, and cost-effective solutions.
We customize training to highly specific, market-driven needs.
We demonstrate a track record of superior quality and expertise.
Anything is possible...
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Education/Training
The Centre of Geographic Sciences offers three levels of programs which are outlined below:
- Direct-Entry Programs
The following programs are designated for direct entry from high school or for those with a similar background seeking a second career:
Cartography, Planning: Land Information Technology, Survey Technician, Applied Communication Arts, Business Information Technology, Computer Programming Technician
- Advanced Programs
Advanced technology programs are designed for entry after the completion of some post-secondary technology training. These programs include:
Geomatics Engineering Technology, Business Administration, Computer Programmer/Analyst, Graphic Design.
- Post-Graduate Programs
These programs are designed to provide high-tech area skills to those who possess a relevant university degree or its equivalent:
Business Geographics, Computer Programmer - Advanced, Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing, Marine Geomatics.
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Geomatics Research Facilities
COGS has recently acquired funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) which has allowed the Campus to acquire technology and information infrastructure to broaden the program thrust at COGS to interface with marine spatial interests, resulting in a centre of expertise in coastal zone geomatics.
The CFI funding supports the development of a spatial information infrastructure, which serves the immediate needs of the collective faculty and research students. It will enable on-line access to essential datasets and relevant software, and provide the image processing capability to interpret geomatics information and reproduce it for use in mapping and modelling, environmental impact and socio-economic analysis of coastal zones and the immediate offshore. Industry, academic and government collaborators are being encouraged to make extensive use of this facility.
Products
- Education And Training
NAICS Categories
Additional Information
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