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):

10416 (v.2) Survey Computations 185 or any previous version
AND
10418 (v.2) Plane and Construction Surveying 181 or any previous version

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 and 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.

** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **

Field of Education:

031100 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
2007	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	Y	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