Nova Scotia – Annapolis County – Lawrencetown
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www.nscc.ca
Nova Scotia
Annapolis County
Lawrencetown
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Operating name: Nova Scotia Community College Annapolis Valley Campus
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.
Country of Ownership: Canada
Year Established: 1946
Exporting: Yes
Primary Industry (NAICS): 611210 - Community Colleges and C.E.G.E.P.s
Primary Business Activity: Services
Number of Employees: 40
Services:
Education/training, Customized training, Geomatics research facilities
Products:
Education and training
Technology:
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
Hicks Bruce
Huyer Constance
Kingston Dennis
Specht Janet
Stanley Jim
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