Surveying Technology - Sandhills Community College

Surveying Technology from Sandhills Community College is a Campus Associate Surveying Engineering degree that prepares you for a Engineering career. Careers in Surveying Technology Surveyors are involved in land surveying, route surveying , construction surveying, photogrammetry, mapping, global positioning systems, geographical information systems, and other areas of property descriptions and measurements. Our graduates qualify for jobs as survey party chiefs, instrument persons, surveying technicians, highway surveyors, mappers, GPS technicians, and CAD operators. Graduates will be prepared to pursue the requirements necessary to become a Professional Land Surveyor in North Carolina. Employment Prospects The increasing demand for fast, accurate, and complete geographic information will be the main source of growth for occupations in Surveying Technology . Surveyors, cartographers, photogrammetrists, and surveying and mapping technicians should have favorable job prospects. Employment in these occupations is expected to increase by 21 percent from 2006 to 2016, which is much faster than the average for all occupations. In addition to openings from growth, job openings will continue to arise from the need to replace workers who transfer to other occupations or who leave the labor force altogether. Many of the workers in these occupations are approaching retirement age. Opportunities for surveyors, cartographers, and photogrammetrists should remain concentrated in engineering, surveying, mapping, building inspection, and drafting services firms. However, employment may fluctuate from year to year with construction activity or with mapping needs for land and resource management. The increased popularity of online mapping systems has created a higher demand for and awareness of geographic information among consumers. An increasing number of firms are interested in geographic information and its applications. For example, GIS can be used to create maps and information used in emergency planning, security, marketing, urban planning, natural resource exploration, construction, and other applications. Our Programs Our Surveying Technology curriculum provides training for technicians in the many areas of surveying. Course work includes the communication and computational skills required for boundary, construction, route, and control surveying , photogrammetry, topography, drainage, surveying law, and subdivision design, with emphasis upon applications of electronic data collection and related software including CAD. View more details on Sandhills Community College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Surveying Engineering courses.