Teaching Assistant - URBP 505 Geographic Information Systems

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The teaching assistant will be responsible for conducting weekly 3-hour lab sessions from11:35 am to 2:25 pm on Fridays and for grading students' lab assignments.

- Experience in spatial analysis, including the following areas:

                - Thematic mapping

                - Areally weighted interpolation

                - Geometric operations, including re-projection, casting, and feature manipulation

                - Cluster and hotspot detection and analysis

                - Network analysis

                - Transport routing and cost surfaces

                - Spatial statistics and regression

- Knowledge of and experience with the application of GIS to urban planning research and policy

- Experience with a variety of GIS platforms, including some of QGIS, R, Python, and ArcGIS

Hiring Unit:
School of Urban Planning

Course Title and Course Number:
Geographic Information Systems - URBP 505

Estimated Number of Positions:
1

Total Hours of Work per Term:
150

 

Hourly Salary:

$36.25

Position Start Date:

2025-01-06

Position End Date:

2025-04-11

Deadline to Apply:

2024-11-08

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