Civil Engineering and Surveying Technology

This course is an introduction to basic fundamentals of civil engineering and surveying. Emphasis is placed on familiarization, reading and understanding highway/heavy plans, specifications and contracts. (F)

Introduction to Civil 3D software focusing on the user interface of the software, points and point management, lines and curves, annotation, styles, surfaces, figures, and grading objects. During this course, the student will work on projects that will be used in future course work in courses such as Land Use Planning and Highway and Street Design. Software utilized will be Civil 3D. Prerequisite: CAD 120. (S)

Instruction and practice in the use of surveying instruments and equipment. Types of surveys, units of measure, elementary leveling, transit problems, basic building layout, field notes and benchmarks are included. Equipment utilized will be automatic levels, transits and total stations. (F)

Advanced survey traverse and triangulation calculations and adjustments including error analysis, error distribution, subdivision of sections, contouring, route locations, grade determinations, earthwork measurements, map plotting, and coordinate geometry such as inversing between points and line intersections. The course will include fieldwork such as; traversing, direct and reverse angles, property corner searches, EDM calibration, construction location and grade staking, building layouts with offset stakes. These labs will be done using Total Stations, Data Collectors, and GPS. Prerequisites: CT 121 and MATH 136. (S)

This course covers the field testing procedures that are prominent in highway/heavy construction projects and commercial construction projects. The materials consist of soils, aggregates, portland cement concrete, and asphalt. This course's main focus is on standardized testing procedure of the most commonly performed field testing procedures and includes background of the need for testing, conducting measurements, performing calculations, and recording results of testing. Results of the various reports will be explained so students will have the ability to interpret and understand the results for each report. (S)

This course will cover safety related to Civil Engineering and Surveying Technicians. Student will cover the content and have the opportunity to earn the OSHA 10-Hour certification. Most of the course will be lecture, video and group discussion. (F)

This course looks at Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and how they are used. Students will look at all aspects of GIS in terms of design, maintenance, analysis and industry usage. This class will teach students GIS concepts while applying those concepts to unit assignments using Esri ArcGIS. Students will apply all concepts to a final project. Prerequisite: CAD 120. (S)

This course will provide the general knowledge and applications a student will need to perform advanced analysis of data, data management and file transformation, data collection and compilation of spatial data, web mapping and data in the cloud. This course will be based on hands-on projects using Esri and ArcGIS software. Prerequisites: CT 211. (S)

This course covers the fundamentals of highway and street design. Included in the course are design safety considerations, design cost effectiveness, geometric features, construction plan development, print reading, and other highway design criteria. A construction design project will be developed during the course using Autodesk Civil 3D. Prerequisite: CT 215. (F)

This course will take an undeveloped parcel of land and develop it into a residential subdivision. The parcel boundary will be surveyed in an earlier surveying class using GPS, Total Stations and Data Collectors. The point files will be downloaded into the latest version of Civil 3D for design and drafting use. Each student will create his or her own subdivision given the parcels boundary. In addition to the subdivision, the student will create contour maps, drainage plans, subdivision plats, etc. Prerequisite: CT 113. (F)

This course covers the fundamentals of water supply and distribution, sanitary sewage and collection methods, and storm water collection and management. Included in the course are topics on hydraulics, hydrology, water distribution and collection systems, and storm water management. Fundamentals in Civil 3D drainage design and analysis, as well as the creation of water, storm, and sanitary pipe networks. A final project will be rendered using Autodesk 3DSMax. Prerequisite or Corequisite: CT 214. (S)

This course is comprised of field work, with emphasis on data collection procedures, and drawing with Civil 3-D, following standards set by ALTA. The students will collect boundary and topographic data utilizing the latest technology in equipment, such as Total Stations, GPS, Robotic Total Stations, etc. The students will take a project, divide it up between groups, perform survey work, merge data files and draw the entire project following ALTA Standards. Prerequisites: CT 113 and CT 122. (F)

This course is comprised of field work and classroom work. The classroom work includes theoretical work in highway and railroad curve alignment, compound curves, reverse curves and vertical curves. The field work includes advanced GPS such as static networks, advanced alignment stakeout, infill surveys, and 3D scanning. A student project performed on their own following procedures taught for boundary research, data collection, data analysis and the creation of a certificate of survey for the project. Prerequisite: CT 221. (S)

The study of the laws and systems of land description and subdivision, including: history of land ownership; terminology used in Real Property Law; methods of property transfer; abstracts of titles; types of titles; filing and recording deeds; legal principles of retracements; reversion of rights; riparian and littoral rights; mining claims; Public Land Survey System; and the preparation of metes and bounds descriptions and records of surveys. (F)

This class serves as a capstone class and will focus on land and real property ownership. Students will research original survey notes and plats, will gain an understanding of recording practices and will conduct research projects in the County Recorder's Office and NDRIN, research railroad and highway plats, monument records, easements, etc. Students will perform calculations of the restoration of lost corners by single and double proportion. (S)

This course will provide the skills necessary to set up control on a construction site, recreate 3d models for proper equipment operation, provide proper data for machine control, compute volumes of project and what is needed for quality control of a project. Students will learn equipment set-up and operations on a skidsteer with GPS guided attachment. Prerequisite: CT 216. (S)

A course designed to meet special departmental needs during new course development. It is used for one year after which time the course is assigned a different number.

Cooperative Education offers students the opportunity to integrate career, social and personal development into the educational process. The cooperative education program allows students to integrate classroom study with a paid work experience related to their fields of study. It is recommended that a student has successfully completed one year of academic study.

A course designed to meet special departmental needs.