10457 (v.4) Engineering and Control Surveying 281


Area: Department of Spatial Sciences
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Fieldwork: 1 x 4 Hours Fortnightly
Prerequisite(s): 10418 (v.2) Plane and Construction Surveying 181
AND
10416 (v.2) Survey Computations 185
 
Syllabus: Geometric aspects of road and railway design, terrain modelling, measurement and computation of volumes. Adjustment and maintenance of surveying instruments. Planning and surveying of local control networks for construction surveying and as constructed surveys. Set-out techniques for construction surveying. As constructed surveys. CivilCad surveying software. Use and calibration of survey instrumentation - total stations, electronic distance measurement (EDM) devices, spirit levelling and trigonometric heighting. Field checks. Introductory least-squares adjustment of control networks. Assessment includes a one-week survey camp.
 
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Field of Education: 31100 Geomatic Engineering (Narrow Grouping)
Funding Cluster: 08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2005 Bentley Campus Semester 1   Y      
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially
Online
Internal
refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully
Online
refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External