Professional Development Series 2022
2022 Winter Seminar Brochure/Registration Form (pdf)
Winter Seminar
December 10, 2022
8:30 am - 12:30 pm
Lincoln Firefighter's Reception Hall
241 Victory Lane
Lincoln, NE 68528
Featuring
Dr. Joseph Paiva - Principal and CEO of GeoLearn
Schedule
8:00 - Registration
8:25 - President’s Welcome
8:30-9:25 - Session 1 Begins
9:25-9:35 - Break - Refreshments
9:35-10:25 - Session 1 Continues
10:25-10:35 - Break - Refreshments
10:35-11:25 - Session 2
11:25-11:35 - Break - Refreshments
11:35 -12:30 - Session 2 Continues
12:30-12:45 - Business Meeting
Business Meeting Agenda
1. Minutes
2. Treasurer’s Report
3. Old Business
4. New Business
5. Adjourn
Speakers
Dr. Joseph Paiva - Principal and CEO of GeoLearn
Dr. Joseph V.R. Paiva is the principal and CEO of GeoLearn, LLC (www.geo-learn.com), an online provider of professional and technician education since February 2014. He also works as a consultant to lawyers, surveyors and engineers, and international developers, manufacturers, and distributors of instrumentation and other geomatics tools, as well being a writer and speaker. Some of his many previous roles include Asst. Prof. of Civil Engineering at Univ. of Missouri-Columbia, teaching surveying, VP at Sokkia and Trimble in product development and general management, managing director of Spatial Data Research Inc., a partner in a surveying/civil engineering firm, and COO at Gatewing NV, a Belgian manufacturer of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for surveying and mapping during 2010-2012.
Joe continues his formal teaching as an adjunct instructor of online credit and noncredit courses at the State Technical College of Missouri. He has served in similar positions at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi and the Missouri University of Science and Technology. His key contributions in the development field are the design of software flow for the SDR2 and SDR20 series of Electronic Field Books, project manager and software design of the SDR33, and software interface design for the Trimble TTS500 total station. He holds several patents.
He is a Registered Professional Engineer and Professional Land Surveyor. He was an NSPS representative to ABET, serving as a program evaluator, where he previously served as team chair and commissioner. And he has more than 30 years experience working in civil engineering, surveying and mapping. Joe writes for POB, The Empire State Surveyor, and many other publications and has been a past contributor of columns to Civil Engineering News. He has published dozens of articles and papers. He has presented over 150 seminars, workshops, papers, and talks in panel discussions, including authoring the positioning component of the Surveying Body of Knowledge published in Surveying and Land Information Science. Joe has B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri Columbia. Joe’s past volunteer professional responsibilities have included being president of the Surveying and Geomatics Educators Society (SaGES) 2017-19 and various ad hoc and organized committees of NSPS, the Missouri Society of Professional Surveyors, ASCE, and other groups.
GeoLearn is the online learning portal provider for the Missouri Society of Professional Surveyors, and several other surveying professional societies including New York and Oklahoma.
Dr. Paiva can be reached at joepaiva@geo-learn.com or on Skype at joseph_paiva
