Teaching

The GEOME Lab contributes to the education of environmental engineers by enabling them to accept the challenges of territorial management, teaching them the knowledge necessary to acquire, manage,  analyse and disseminate territorial information as well as establishing information technologies.

The main goal is to train environmental engineers able to:

• know characteristics and value of geographic information;
• choose and use relevant information to support their decisions;
• know the capacities and the limits of existing geographic information systems and tools;
• exchange information with GI systems developers.

To strengthen their competences in geographical information management, future environmental engineers should also be able to:

• choose and adapt an adequate approach to implement a GI system for a corresponding issue to solve;
• choose and use adequate geographic information engineering tools;
• to define specifications, and to select the appropriate computer and GI system, and to implement it.

The GEOME lab offers a MOOC in french (Introduction aux Systèmes d’Information Géographique) and the following Bachelor and Master courses:

Stéphane Joost

• Border Forensics
  
  

  This course introduces forms of violence linked to state borders and social boundaries in Switzerland. Drawing on the work of Border Forensics, it presents transdisciplinary investigative methods—from geostatistical analysis to (auto-)ethnography—used to document and contest this violence.

  
  
  AR
  Teachers: Stéphane Joost, Stéphane Joost
  Language: En
  Academic term: Bachelor semestre 6
  

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• Border Forensics
  
  

  This course introduces forms of violence linked to state borders and social boundaries in Switzerland. Drawing on the work of Border Forensics, it presents transdisciplinary investigative methods—from geostatistical analysis to (auto-)ethnography—used to document and contest this violence.

  
  
  AR
  Teachers: Stéphane Joost, Stéphane Joost
  Language: En
  Academic term: Bachelor semestre 6
  

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• Exploratory data analysis in environmental health
  
  

  This course teaches how to apply exploratory spatial data analysis to health information. Teaching focuses on the role of GIS and spatial statistics in spatial epidemiology. It proposes a context to investigate the relationship between health, quality of life, and environmental characteristics.

  
  
  SIE, SIE, SIE, SIE, SIE, SIE, SIE
  Teachers: Stéphane Joost, Stéphane Joost
  Language: En
  Academic term: Master semestre 1, Semestre automne, Semestre automne, Master semestre 1, Semestre automne, Semestre automne, Master semestre 1
  

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• Exploratory data analysis in environmental health
  
  

  This course teaches how to apply exploratory spatial data analysis to health information. Teaching focuses on the role of GIS and spatial statistics in spatial epidemiology. It proposes a context to investigate the relationship between health, quality of life, and environmental characteristics.

  
  
  SIE, SIE, SIE, SIE, SIE, SIE, SIE
  Teachers: Stéphane Joost, Stéphane Joost
  Language: En
  Academic term: Master semestre 1, Semestre automne, Semestre automne, Master semestre 1, Semestre automne, Semestre automne, Master semestre 1
  

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• Geographic information system (GIS)
  
  

  Acquisition of basic concepts and skills of (geographic) data structures and of their storage in (geographic) database systems. Learning of relevant geographic data analysis processes for environmental and civil engineers (spatial autocorrelation, spatial interpolation, digital elevation modeling).

  
  
  SIE, SIE, SIE, SIE
  Teachers: Stéphane Joost, Stéphane Joost, Stéphane Joost
  Language: Fr
  Academic term: Master semestre 2, Semestre printemps, Bachelor semestre 6, Bachelor semestre 4
  

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• Geographic information system (GIS)
  
  

  Acquisition of basic concepts and skills of (geographic) data structures and of their storage in (geographic) database systems. Learning of relevant geographic data analysis processes for environmental and civil engineers (spatial autocorrelation, spatial interpolation, digital elevation modeling).

  
  
  SIE, SIE, SIE, SIE
  Teachers: Stéphane Joost, Stéphane Joost, Stéphane Joost
  Language: Fr
  Academic term: Master semestre 2, Semestre printemps, Bachelor semestre 6, Bachelor semestre 4
  

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• Geographic information system (GIS)
  
  

  Acquisition of basic concepts and skills of (geographic) data structures and of their storage in (geographic) database systems. Learning of relevant geographic data analysis processes for environmental and civil engineers (spatial autocorrelation, spatial interpolation, digital elevation modeling).

  
  
  SIE, SIE, SIE, SIE
  Teachers: Stéphane Joost, Stéphane Joost, Stéphane Joost
  Language: Fr
  Academic term: Master semestre 2, Semestre printemps, Bachelor semestre 6, Bachelor semestre 4
  

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