Joe Betit

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  Cover Story : Balancing the Education Equation - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/22/2002    Last Visited: 8/22/2002  

  Joseph W. Betit, PLS, surveying coordinator at ODU, says the students get to see and use state-of-the-art equipment provided by vendors.
  
  "They [the vendors] love it because they get to meet the end users," Betit says."They don't have to advertise; their name is on the equipment."
  
  At East Tennessee State University, classroom, laboratory and outdoor field space is provided in and around the campus.Total stations, first-order theodolites, precise levels, GPS units, photogrammetric stereoplotters and Pentium computers are all available for students to experience and use.Surveying and mapping software from several companies has been either donated or purchased at educational discounts through special vendor offers.A 20-station second-order network of stations covers the main campus.
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  "What I had hoped for," Betit says."The Holy Grail for surveying was distance education."
  
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  Hopefully, more students will be making their way to Collins, Clark, Betit and other administrators of distance education programs.

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  Cover Story : Balancing the Education Equation - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/29/2001    Last Visited: 12/29/2001  

  Joseph W. Betit, PLS, surveying coordinator at ODU, says the students get to see and use state-of-the-art equipment provided by vendors.
  
  "They [the vendors] love it because they get to meet the end users," Betit says."They don't have to advertise; their name is on the equipment."
  
  At East Tennessee State University, classroom, laboratory and outdoor field space is provided in and around the campus.Total stations, first-order theodolites, precise levels, GPS units, photogrammetric stereoplotters and Pentium computers are all available for students to experience and use.Surveying and mapping software from several companies has been either donated or purchased at educational discounts through special vendor offers.A 20-station second-order network of stations covers the main campus.
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  "What I had hoped for," Betit says."The Holy Grail for surveying was distance education."
  
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  Hopefully, more students will be making their way to Collins, Clark, Betit and other administrators of distance education programs.

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  GEO Resources - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/29/2001    Last Visited: 12/28/2001  

  The Land Surveying Instructional "Dream Team" is to be led by Program Coordinator Joe Betit, PLS.Betit currently serves as the Surveying Coordinator in the Engineering Technology Department at Old Dominion University, where he worked to transfer all of ODU's geomatics/surveying courses into distance education formats.Betit says, "It's apparent that access to surveying education will be a continuing problem for the profession in the years to come.Through Professional Surveyor and RedVector.com, we'll work to provide online solutions that bring education to today's Land Surveying and Geomatics professional, at their location, as needed."

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  GIS News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/17/2001    Last Visited: 2/10/2002  

  The Land Surveying Instructional "Dream Team" is to be led by Program Coordinator Joe Betit, PLS.Betit currently serves as the Surveying Coordinator in the Engineering Technology Department at Old Dominion University, where he worked to transfer all of ODU's geomatics/surveying courses into distance education formats.
  
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  News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/8/2005    Last Visited: 8/8/2005  

  Team" is to be led by Program Coordinator Joe Betit, PLS.Betit currently serves as the Surveying Coordinator in the Engineering Technology Department at Old Dominion University, where he worked to transfer all of ODU's geomatics/surveying courses into distance education formats.Betit says, "It's apparent that access to surveying education will be a continuing problem for the profession in the years to come.

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  News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/16/2002    Last Visited: 8/16/2002  

  Team" is to be led by Program Coordinator Joe Betit, PLS.Betit currently serves as the Surveying Coordinator in the Engineering Technology Department at Old Dominion University, where he worked to transfer all of ODU's geomatics/surveying courses into distance education formats.Betit says, "It's apparent that access to surveying education will be a continuing problem for the profession in the years to come.Through Professional Surveyor and RedVector.com, we'll work to provide online solutions that bring education to today's Land Surveying and Geomatics professional, at their location, as needed."

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  News - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/12/2001    Last Visited: 2/9/2002  

  Team" is to be led by Program Coordinator Joe Betit, PLS.Betit currently serves as the Surveying Coordinator in the Engineering Technology Department at Old Dominion University, where he worked to transfer all of ODU's geomatics/surveying courses into distance education formats.Betit says, "It's apparent that access to surveying education will be a continuing problem for the profession in the years to come.Through Professional Surveyor and RedVector.com, we'll work to provide online solutions that bring education to today's Land Surveying and Geomatics professional, at their location, as needed."

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  Professional Surveyor Archives - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/12/2004    Last Visited: 2/12/2004  

  Joe Betit, LS
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  Joe Betit left private practice in 1993 to focus on the advancement of access to educational opportunities for surveyors.He has just left Old Dominion University after six years as Surveying Coordinator where he transferred the entire surveying curriculum to delivery by distance education technologies.

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  Professional Surveyor Archives - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/11/2003    Last Visited: 11/11/2003  

  Joe Betit, LS
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  Joe Betit left private practice in 1993 to focus on educational opportunities for surveyors.He recently left Old Dominion University after 6 years as Surveying Coordinator where he transferred the entire surveying curriculum to delivery by distance education technologies.

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  Professional Surveyor Archives - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/19/2002    Last Visited: 10/19/2002  

  Joe Betit, LS
  
  This summer the U.S. surveying profession has suffered the loss of two of its premier university surveying and geomatics programs.These two programs, University of Maine, Orono and Ohio State University, are also two of the three primary doctoral and research programs.The severe budget problems all of the states are now experiencing are driving these program closures.A recent governors' conference revealed how difficult the current state budget problems are.Many states canceled attendance because their budget shortfalls are so deep that their governors could not afford the expense or the time away from budget work.Hopes that the shortfalls will be turned around in 2-3 years now seem optimistic.
  
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  Joe Betit left private practice in 1993 to focus on the advancement of access to educational opportunities for surveyors.He has just left Old Dominion University after six years as Surveying Coordinator where he transferred the entire surveying curriculum to delivery by distance education technologies.
  
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