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Welcome to GIS at the FAST


The Facility for Advanced Spatial Technology is a multi-disciplinary resource lab for teaching in Geographic Information Sciences at the University of Colorado Denver on the Downtown Campus at Auraria Campus North Classroom, Suites 5033 and 5032.

UCD Students from all disciplines studying the spatial information technologies are invited to come to the FAST and share our vision.

Faculty, Staff and Community Resources...

Scheduling:
1) Check the FAST Calendar for the vacancy you require.
2) Email to to the Coordinator  and CC your FAST Faculty representative, for endorsement. You may telephone to the Coordinator at 303-556-4172 with questions regarding scheduling, but all formal reservations must be made via email for documentation purposes. Reserve your space early! Most classes are reserved a year or more in advance.

Community Events:
Download the forms HERE. Return completed Contract, Indemnification Agreement, and Insurance Certificate to the Coordinator for approvals.

Lab Software:
Please make software requests via email to the Coordinator. Software requests that require a purchase of licenses require the approval of the FAST Faculty Committee. Please contact your FAST Faculty Representative to request a software license purchase.

ESRI Software...

Any Faculty/Staff of UC Denver (either campus) may request free ESRI GIS software (ArcGIS, ArcInfo, IMS, SDE, etc.) for use on University-owned computers.

Server Maintenance
FAST Servers will reboot daily between 4 and 5 AM, for maintenance and updates. Online users at this time of the morning must be prepared. Save early, save often!

The FAST servers occasionally need maintenance. The hours between 9 PM on Saturday evening and 9 AM on Sunday morning during sessions and all hours during inter-sessions are reserved for server maintenance. You may use the lab, but if maintenance is required, you may be asked to save your work and log off the system during those hours. Announcements will be posted to the link called Server Status. Check this page before planning to use the lab late on Saturday, or during inter-session.
 
 

 

 

FAST Faculty                                
The FAST as an academic resource is managed by the FAST Faculty Committee.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Dr. Deborah Thomas - Geography and Environmental Science

College of Engineering and Applied Science
Dr. Lynn Johnson - Civil Engineering

College of Architecture and Planning
Dr. Brian Muller - Urban and Regional Design

The FAST Mission

FAST Coordinator -
Sue Hawkins MEng GIS
The Coordinator's telephone is 303.556.4172. Fax documents to the attention of the FAST at 303-556-4861. Office hours are Monday through Thursday, 12 PM to 4 PM. A bell is located to the right of the bulletin board in the hall outside the FAST.

The best way to contact the FAST is an email to Sue.Hawkins@UCDenver.EDU.

If you are having trouble accessing the servers or opening the software, call the Coordinator's at 303-556-4172. If you are a first-time FAST user, see Set up Your Access for first-time user instructions.

FAST Students - New! 2009 MEng GIS Presentations!

FAST Administrative Documentation
FAST Administrative Documentation is restricted to the FAST Faculty Committee and their designees.