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Patty Drews
Associate Professor
Education
- Ph.D.
Geography; University of South Carolina, 1999
- M.S.
Geography; The Pennsylvania State University, 1978
- B.S.
Geography; Kansas State University, 1974
Courses Taught
- Geographic
Information Systems
- Advanced GIS
- Special Topics in GIS
- Digital Image
Processing
- Population Geography
- Senior Seminar, Principles of GIS (online)
- Spatial
Analysis and Geostatistics (online)
- GIS Database Design (online)
- GIS Project
Management (online)
Academic Interests
- Geographic Information Science
- Rural-to-urban
land use conversion
- Redistricting
- GIS education
Scholarly Activity
- Hung, M. C., and Drews, P. L. 2011. Admission and retention
in an online M.S. in GIScience program. Paper presented at GIS-Pro 2011,
Indianapolis, IN, Nov. 1-4, 2011.
- Drews, P. L., and Rytting, J. R. 2010. Dialect translation in
the manuscripts of The
Reeve's Tale.
Paper presented at Medieval Translator 2010: The Cardiff Conference on the
Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages, Padova, Italy, July
23-27, 2010.
- Drews, P. L. and Haddock, G. 2009. Survey of student opinions
of electronic textbooks. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV, March 22-27, 2009.
- Drews, P. L. 2008. Comparison of attrition in an online and
on-campus Master's programs. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, April 15-19, 2008.
- Drews, P. L. 2006. Evolution of an online GIScience M.S.
degree curriculum. Paper presented at the Sixth Annual ESRI Education User
Conference, San Diego, CA, August 5-8, 2006.
- Drews, P. L. 2005. The tools and processes used for
Congressional and legislative redistricting in Missouri. Papers of the Applied Geography
Conferences, Vol. 28,
2005, pp. 377-386.
- Drews, P. L., and Haddock, G. 2005. Curriculum and support
for an online GIScience program. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of
the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 5-9, 2005.
- Haddock, G., and Drews, P. L. 2005. Use of course development
software for GIS project management. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting
of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 5-9, 2005.
- Drews, P.L. 2004. First-year assessment of an online Master's
program in GIScience. Proceedings
of the Fourth Annual ESRI Education User Conference, San Diego, CA.
- Haddock, G. and Drews, P. L. 2004. The GIS lab experience in
lecture-based and web-based settings. Paper presented at the Annual
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA,
March 14-19, 2004.
- Drews, P.L. 2003. Challenges and lessons learned in teaching
an online GIS course. Proceedings
of the Third Annual ESRI Education User Conference, San Diego, CA.
Other Professional Experiences
Professional Affiliations
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Association of American
Geographers
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National Council for Geographic Education
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Urban and Regional
Information Systems Association
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Gamma Theta Upsilon Honor Society
Other
Volunteer Activities
