 My name is John David Chronix. I go by JD, and it's my belief that in order to understand how to truly apply spatial technologies to a particular area, whether it's transportation or health or some other area, you need to understand that area to some degree, and you need to understand the problems that people in that area face. Each week we will look at a particular transportation organization. So we'll look at one week, we'll look at the Federal Highways Administration, another week we'll look at a State Department of Transportation, a State DOT, AASHTO is an important organization in transportation. So by the end of the course, you'll have a flavor for the important players in the transportation industry and those organizations that utilize spatial technologies and transportation. Another component of the course that I think I've gotten a lot of positive feedback on is each week we have a webinar with a professional in the transportation industry, generally people that use spatial technologies and transportation. So for example, in the last course offering we actually had 13 presentations from different transportation professionals. These were interactive presentations where the students could ask questions, and I know the students that have taken the course each time I've offered have really liked that aspect of the course. And also one other thing I've really tried to focus on in the course, because I am myself a graduate of the MGIS program through Penn State, an online program, is I've tried to structure things in a way that we kind of close the gap between some of the online experience and classroom experience. So I think the webinars themselves, the live interactive webinars that we have each week, to give the students a chance to interact live with each other and myself and the transportation professionals. And also I typically have one-on-one sessions each week where I ask students to pair up and interact with each other in one-on-one sessions for a half an hour to get to know each other. So I really look forward to meeting you in the class and I hope we have fun together.