The College of Architecture and Planning has secured a $4.7 million grant which will allow the university to experience the latest and greatest in software.
The software licensing grant comes from the Intergraph Corporation which is the leading producer of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software, which is an industry that can be used by many profession dealing with spatially based information.
GIS can be used by urban planners, geologists, biologists, politicians, manufacturers and economists, said urban planning professor and grant coordinator David Schoen.
"We have always had Intergraph software but this is state of the art," Schoen said.
The software is for academic purposes, including teaching and student use, Schoen said.
Any faculty member can use it as well as students who are taking classes involving the software.
"The software manipulates data into a two-dimensional form," Schoen said.
The grant from Intergraph was awarded to the college as part of its innovative use of GIS in the classroom, said Dan Ruscheinski of Intergraph in a recent news release.
"We have a track record with Intergraph and have been a client for 15 years," Schoen said.
Schoen said that most people will not have problems learning how to use the software.
"One needs training to use the software though it is not that complex," Schoen said. "This is the most intuitive software out of any other product on the market."
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