Committee

The Geospatial Engineering Advisory Committee

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board requires Austin Community College to establish separate industry-based advisory committees for each workforce education program. The broad purposes of an advisory committee are:

to help a college document the need for a workforce education program; and
to ensure that the program has both adequate resources and a well-designed curriculum to provide students with the skills, knowledge, and behaviors necessary to successfully meet the needs of business and industry.

The advisory committee is one of the principal means of ensuring meaningful business and industry participation in program creation and revision. See the ACC GIS Advisory Committee Bylaws for a complete description of the committee's purpose, function, and membership; and the ACC GIS Strategic Plan for our vision statement and program-level workforce competencies and outcomes (summarized from the Department of Labor's Geospatial Technology Competency Model (GTCM).

Committee Members

See the Advisory Committee Members Biographies for a brief biography of each member and their committee tenure status.

Private Sector

Coleen Johnson, RPLS, WGI, Inc.

Bobby Hempfling, AllTerra Central

Joe Webber, Jr., RPLS, PLS, McGray & McGray

Carey Johnson, S.I.T., 4Ward Land Surveying

Public Sector

Joe Breaux, RPLS, TxDOT

Mike Gard, RPLS, TPWD

Dave Klotz, RPLS, LSLS, Texas GLO

Matt Morse, RPLS, PMP, LCRA