CM 2120 - Surveying

• Develop a working knowledge of surveying equipment and techniques required to do basic construction layout
• Understand the care and handling of equipment 
• Know how to set up and operate a transit
• Understand horizontal distances taping and EDM
• Understand horizontal angles, reading, recording, and repetition
• Understand horizontal curve theory and practice
• Understand topography
• Understand construction layout, distances and angles, and error tolerance
• Understand the basics of U.S. federal land system, deeds and descriptions
• Understand differential leveling, theory and practice
• Understand traverses, closed polygon; measuring calculations and layout
• Understand how to set up and operate a total station
• Understand how to set up and operate a GPS unit

• Trigonometry

• Introduction to surveying: measuring horizontal distances; pacing, and using a cloth and steel tape
• Leveling: setting up and operating the transit as a level, reading and calculating elevations
• Measuring horizontal angles: setting up and operating the transit
• Traversing: measuring, mathematically closing and setting a traverse in the field
• Horizontal curves: computing and laying out a horizontal curve
• Earthwork volume computations: measuring earthwork quantities by x-sectioning
• Topographic surveying discussion
• Boundary survey principles and construction staking techniques will be discussed in class and a complex construction layout will be performed in the field
• Coordinate systems and construction layout techniques
• Equipment calibration and state of the art equipment discussion and demonstrations 
• Global Positioning Systems