The document discusses the FME grant program which supports educators and students by providing licenses for using FME software in academic settings. It highlights various use cases in university projects that enhance student learning and research capabilities, especially in fields like GIS and data integration. The upcoming 'Peak of Data Integration' event in Seattle from May 6-8, 2025, is also announced, offering early registration and free certification opportunities.

1. Bridging Classroom and
Career: FME Grant Licenses
for Academic Innovation

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4. Peak of Data Integration
Seattle, WA | May 6–8, 2025
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○ Early Bird Pricing until Feb 7, 2025.
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○ 2 exams offered on Wednesday, May 7.

5. Agenda
1 Introduction
2 Real World Use Cases ft. Guest Speakers
3 Next Steps: How to Apply for a Grant
4 Resources
5 Q&A
Agenda

6. 1
Introduction

7. Our Grant Program
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Whether you’re a student using FME for your
post-secondary education, an instructor at an
accredited post-secondary institution, or you’re using
FME to make the world a better place, there may be an
option for you.

8. Empowering
Future
Professionals…

9. …with employable
skills-led education at
295 universities &
non-profit companies
around the world.

10. Challenges Faced in Education & Research
Education
● Funding makes it difficult to acquire and teach leading edge tools.
● Large numbers of licenses needed to support student population
● Education material needed that is associated with tools.
Research
● Data Fragmentation: data is scattered across formats and systems making it
difficult to consolidate.
● Data Preparation: Transforming data so it is ready for analysis can be costly.
● Skills Gap: Many data tools require advanced programming skills.
● Gen AI: AI is Driven by data. Getting all data to Any-AI is changing everything.
● Isolated Research: Challenges in sharing data across teams

11. The benefits:
● Value of Data: Students have more time to
experience the value and fun of discovery.
● No-Code Data Access: Focus on data skills
rather than how to write code.
● Research: spend more time on analysis.
● Innovation: Brings all-data and any-AI
capabilities to students.
● Experience with Industry tools: Practical
skills in data handling desired by industry.
Enter FME! for Education

12. The only all-data
any-AI integration
platform.
Simplify your data journey
and imagine new
possibilities with FME.
See How

13. One platform, two technologies
FME Form FME Flow
Data Movement and transformations
workflows are built here.
Brings life to FME Form workflows
FME Flow Hosted
SaaS version of FME Flow
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FME Enterprise Integration Platform
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14. Over 500+ systems supported by FME.
Unrivalled Data Support
GIS
CAD
Database
XML
Raster
3D
BIM
Web
Point
Cloud
Cloud
Big Data
IOT
Gaming
BI
Indoor
Mapping
AR/VR
Generative
AI
Cloud
Native
Tabular

15. 2
Real World
Use Cases

16. FME Grant Licenses at
University of Wollongong
● Overview: FME Grant Program at UOW
● Supporting student learning and cutting
edge research projects
● Impact on both undergraduate education
and post graduate and doctoral research
Overview

17. FME in Action:
Enhancing Student
Learning
● Group project involves a design for a
community development supporting
~300 “at-risk” indigenous people.
● Site selection and conceptual level
access, housing, power, water,
wastewater and facilities design suitable
for presentation and report to a notional
humanitarian organisation client.
● Students are encouraged to produce
designs using software tools and place
them in the real world.
Undergraduate level
● Visuals: Screenshots or diagrams
from student projects or student
interaction during labs.

18. FME in Action: Enhancing Student Learning
● Student projects using FME - project site selection and conceptual design
● Teaching fundamental GIS concepts through hands-on exercises
○ Coordinate systems
○ Vector vs
raster data
○ Basic clipping
and spatial joins
○ DEMs for
reducing options
● Students' development
and application of
in-demand skills
for future careers
Undergraduate level

19. Advancing Mine Safety
Research with FME
● Leveraging FME for data integration in
cutting edge research
● Examples of workflows developed for
research include production of high
resolution seam DEMs and 3D
exploration and gas drainage boreholes
● FME used in handling large datasets and
automating analysis.
● Research determined high resolution
depth of cover, slope and aspect data is
critical to fundamental calculations
required for gas emission prediction.
Postgraduate research

20. Patrick Booth
patrick@mecee.com.au
Research Fellow | School of Civil, Mining and
Environmental Engineering
Thank you
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21. FME Grant Licenses at
RMIT University &
Teacher / Assessor
Introduction
● Cert IV in Surveying and Spatial
Information
● Diploma in Surveying
● Advanced Diploma in Surveying
● Pathway to the geospatial, Remote
Sensing and Surveying Degree programs

22. Manipulate spatial data
and imagery
● Create polygons from line datasets
○ Correct data issues
○ Convert to polygons
○ Include a picture
○ Output to KML
Data Manipulation

23. Mapping
● Pirate Map
Mapping
Christopher Sikari - RMIT Student
Tony Vowels RMIT Student

24. Terrain Modeling
● Create the following from Lidar (LAS) dataset
○ Digital Elevation Models (DEM)
○ Hillshade (Shaded Relief)
○ Aspect
○ Slope
○ Aspect-Slope
○ Contours with Elevation values
● Convert the data into a 3D model
2D and 3D Terrain Visualisation
Hillshade (Shaded Relief)
DEM
Aspect Slopes
Aspect-Slope
Contours

25. 3D Models
2D 3D Terrain Visualisation

26. Remote Sensing
● Conduct NDVI Analysis – Heathy Vegetation
2D 3D Terrain Visualisation

27. Analyse Datasets
● Create graphs with scatterplots

28. Process GNSS Survey
Data

29. Solve a Maze
● Alan Hatcher created an FME
workspace that solved the
maze
Alan Hatcher - Previous Student
https://hub.safe.com/publishers/spatialtransformation/transformers/mazesolver

30. Greg Patterson
gregory.patterson@rmit.edu.au
VE Teacher and Assessor
Building Surveying and Land Management
Thank you
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31. FME Grant Licenses & Site Subscription at UMass
Lecturer Introduction
● 32,000+ students
● 6,000+ Faculty and Staff
● #26 Public University
● M13+ sq. feet of space
● 200+ Maror Buildings
○ (main Camus)
● 1,450 acre Campus
● GIS/IT Manager, A&F IT
● Adjunct Faculty, GIS Technology Program

32. Teaching with FME: Grant Program
● Teaching "Spatial Databases and Data Interoperability" since 2019 (GIS-T).
● Course goals:
○ Geospatial computations/analysis at the database level.
○ Integrating spatial databases with other systems using modern technologies.
■ FME: primary tool for data exploration/integration.
● Students from diverse disciplines (Geography, Planning, Environmental Conservation,
Engineering) with varying GIS/IT skill levels.
● FME license usage:
○ Individual licenses for students and instructors/TAs.
○ Concurrent licenses for 40+ workstations in Holdsworth Hall 302.
○ Post-graduation licenses.

33. Teaching with FME: Grant Program
● FME offers natural learning curve, supported by Safe Software training resources.
● Exploratory Data Engineering
○ FME provides REPL (Read-Evaluate-Print Loop) analog, similar to exploratory
programming
○ Caching | Data inspection at any point/time | Ability to rerun a part of a workflow
● Intuitive Graphical Interface with bookmarks and annotations for self-documentation
○ Easy to share, maintain and support workflows.
○ Easy to provide feedback or instructions to students directly in the workflow.
WHYFME IS AN EFFECTIVE TEACHING TOOL

34. Teaching with FME: Grant Program
● Powerful concept of READERS and WRITERS | makes very complex steps doable
○ hides complexity of authentication
○ Intuitive way of dealing with SQL Databases (creating/dropping tables, establishing
attributes and indexes) - otherwise it may be intimidating for students to add data to
PostGIS.
○ Powerful transformers for Python and R integrations
○ FME Hub for specialized transformers
● Re-enforces class motto of being “Data Centric and Format Agnostic”
WHYFME IS AN EFFECTIVE TEACHING TOOL

35. Teaching with FME: Grant Program
COURSE TRADITION: TO START A SEMESTER WITH GUEST LECTURE BY DMITRI BAGH
● Demonstrate what is possible
● 10 years ago - you would need
to have specialized degree in
CompSci, Image Processing,
Natural Language Processing
or 3D Graphics
● Now - you can do these type of
analysis with FME
● FME as a “Skill Amplifier”

36. Teaching with FME: Grant Program
WHYFME IS AN EFFECTIVE TEACHING TOOL
TERM PROJECT GOALS
● We use Term Project as a tool to activate knowledge/skill set
● Projects have the following themes:
○ Real world application
○ From A to Z - from data sources to actionable information for stakeholders
○ System Integration - use components/functionality of existing system
○ Automation
○ Reproducibility
● FME is a natural environment to address these themes
● Here are some examples of students’ projects.

37. Teaching with FME: Grant Program
PROJECT EXAMPLES: BASEBALL ANALYTICS BY JOHN HARTSHORNE, Fall 2023
● FME
● ArcGIS Online
● APIs
● JSON
● Libraries to create
charts/graphs
● 3D generation of Stadium
Walls
● Reproducible workflows

38. Teaching with FME: Grant Program
PROJECT EXAMPLES: BUILDING ENERGY ANALYSIS by CATHERINE SHEA, Fall 2023
● FME
● ESRI AGOL
● APIs
● JSON
● LIDAR
● 3D Libraries
● Process or
Logic Diagram

39. Teaching with FME: Grant Program
PROJECT EXAMPLES: DATA PREP FOR FLOOD SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING BY JOHN SLAFF, Fall 2022
● Automated Data
Retrieval
● FME
● ArcGIS Online
● APIs
● Data Integration
● Rasters
○ Analysis
● Bulk Processing

40. Facilities Management: Site Subscription Model
● A&F Information Technology Group
○ Support for business operations, and Facilities Campus Services (FCS)
○ A&F IT-GIS group provides support for geospatial products and infrastructure.
● FME users since 2009 ( Data InterOp Extension, then FME Desktop and later FME Server)
● FME Higher Ed Site Subscription
○ Since 2021 | Renewed this year | Long-term partnership with Safe Software
○ Unlimited number of desktop, server and engine installations/users
○ Intended also for administrative use (e.g Facilities Management and Operations)
● Working with staff and FCS students
INTEGRATION WITH GIS TECHNOLOGY STACK

41. Facilities Management: Site Subscription Model
● FME
● APIs
● JSON
● ArcGIS Online
○ HFS
○ Dashboards
● Reproducible
workflows
PROJECT EXAMPLES: STREETSWEEPER ANALYTICS by BRETT BERNARD, FALL 2020

42. Facilities Management: Site Subscription Model
PROJECT EXAMPLES: UAS/DRONE IMAGERY DATABASE by MICHAEL OLDHAM, FALL 2021
● FME
● APIs
● MS SharePoint
● MS SQL Server
● JSON
● ArcGIS Online
● Google Earth
● Reproducible
workflows

43. Facilities Management: Site Subscription Model
PROJECT EXAMPLES: CAMPUS ARCHEOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT by ALEX LOW, FALL 2022
● FME Flow/Form
● APIs
● Rasters
● ArcGIS Online
● Reproducible
workflows

44. Alexander (Sasha) Stepanov, Ph.D.
stepanov@umass.edu
GIS/IT Manager, A&F Information Technology
Adjunct Faculty, GIS Technology Program
Thank you

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46. 4
Next Steps

47. Application Hub:
FME Grant Program
Instruction License Grant
● Ongoing licenses for teaching students.
Student Use License
● Students anywhere in the world can get a
4-month free license of FME!
Apply Now

48. Peak of Data Integration
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