Task 3

Tasks

Task 1
Production and Marketing

Task 2
Educational Programs

Task 3
New Degree Paths

Component 3 - Task 3

GPS Sensor Engineering

The field of Geospatial Engineering is one of the most rapidly expanding fields in all of academia. Geospatial Engineering is devoted to mapping in (X, Y, Z) coordinates anything and everything medical, environmental, and geological. This is breaking new ground world wide, as atlases of everything from the human body to hurricanes are being made digital and accessible.

Our idea incorporates knowledge already popular and used frequently in this field; however, our idea takes the theory and implementation a few steps further. Our new research will move the field forward in leaps and bounds. Our research can be applied to multiple places. It is no great leap to place a beacon/sensor in, say, a blocked blood vessel, as it is on a road in Iraq. Our research will open up new degree programs in medicine or geospatial engineering.

This Program, called GPS Sensor Engineering, will use our ideas and the ideas of geospatial engineering to create new ways to measure, sense, and transmit data from inaccessible places. The implications are infinite: GPS technologies used to map blocked arteries, GPS technologies which measure situations within tornados, the conditions of the Hudson River at a dumping site. Our technologies could become the basis for a full degree which can permanently influence the way scientists measure and organize data.

Task One

Provide a forecast of what the workforce demand would be over a five-year period to produce and market your team’s technical application or process. Include the impact such production would have on the marketplace.

	Task Two

Give two examples of undergraduate or graduate degree programs in science or engineering that directly relate to your team's NCT technical application. For each program, be sure to include the following: + the URL address of the institution, + the department (for example, chemical engineering, electronic engineering) where the program is offered, and + a brief description of the program of study.

	Task Three

Propose and describe a new product or new process based on your team's NCT technical application.