Courses Handbook 2008

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
    OR
    310084 (v.1) WASM Mine Surveying and Mapping 142 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 trigonometricheighting. 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)
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
2008 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

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