6. Surveying Course Structure: Lectures: 2 /
Labs: 1 Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisites: None
Objectives: The purpose of this course is to present the material to
familiarize the students with introductory surveying. Time will be spent on
acquisition of theory and practical field skills reinforcement. Principles and
applications are designed for use by civil engineers as well as those in civil
technology.
Course Outline: Overview of surveying, objects and classifications of
surveying, scales, survey tasks, survey principles and methods, accuracy
and precision, measurement and errors, coordinate systems and
computation, direct distance measurements, errors in measurement of
distance and corrections, height measures, leveling and its types, bench
marks, leveling staff, sources of errors in leveling and accuracies, angular
measurements, reading systems of optical theodolites, measuring angles
and adjustments, indirect distance measurements, contouring plans by level
and staff, section and cross-sections, precise and reciprocal leveling,
traverse survey, triangulation and trilateration, GPS survey.
