Land Surveying Technology - Glenville State College

Land Surveying Technology from Glenville State College is a Campus Associate Surveying Engineering degree that prepares you for a Engineering career. Mission Statement Graduates of the program will have the field and computer skills necessary to begin careers in land surveying including property surveys, route surveys, mineral surveys and construction stakeout, preparation of surface mine permits and others including sewer and water projects. The program is the only one in West Virginia and maintains an active advisory committee. Goals Include: Graduates will be able to obtain licensing as a Professional Land Surveyor after qualifying field experience and passing the national and state test. Graduates will operate SurvCadd and other computer programs to efficiently draft and analyze field data. Objectives Students will: 1. Review surveying history and methods of early American surveying history. 2. Be able to locate and identify property monuments, such as living trees, dead trees and wood from trees or stumps. 3. Be able to utilize courthouse documents including, but not limited to, grantor-grantee indexes, will books, plat books, land books, etc. 4. Become knowledgeable of mineral and timber surveys and computations associated with them. 5. Become knowledgeable of the field use of compasses, transits, theodolites, and global positioning systems. 6. Become proficient in computations that are commonly done and utilized in field surveys. 7. Gain a use of boundary law principles as applied to retracement surveys. 8. Gain knowledge of ethics and integrity in professional interactions. 9. Utilize state-of-the-art software for data collection, processing and mapping as related to various surveying projects. 10. Take field trips to government or industry entities to broaden the knowledge of the subject material in various classes. 11. Become knowledgeable of remote sensing materials and their use in land surveying projects. View more details on Glenville State College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Surveying Engineering courses.