Course Overview
This course starts with the study of engineering survey properties, basic survey equipment errors and their mitigation techniques, the application of optical and electromagnetic measuring principles and techniques, and the associated safety issues. It then continues with student skill development in the techniques of vertical control surveys by exploring appropriate standards and specifications; symmetric and non-symmetric transition curves, including terminal curves; mining and tunnelling surveying, including underground control point transfer and azimuth determination with gyro equipment. The course ends with an introduction to offshore engineering survey. Students learn through lectures, assignments, and hands-on labs.
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Explain different classes of surveys and how they are related.
- Explain the principles, concepts, observing techniques and instrumentation involved in engineering surveys.
- Identify safety issues involved in engineering survey projects.
- Discuss general error properties of measurements, including precision and accuracy indicators, survey standards and survey specifications, and how to minimize the effects of these errors.
- Use high-precision surveying equipment (geodetic level, precision total station) according to specifications and guidelines.
- Apply appropriate standards and specifications in carrying out vertical control surveys.
- Define some commonly used terms in mining surveys.
- Compare different techniques for transferring positions and orientation from surface points to underground points in underground mining or tunnelling projects.
- Use gyro equipment (based on gyro orientation principles in space) to determine astronomic azimuth, including the reduction of the astronomic azimuth to its grid azimuth equivalent.
- Analyze positions and positional uncertainties in mining and tunnelling surveys.
- Compute data for layout of symmetric and non-symmetric transition curves and terminal curves.
- Analyze surveying techniques in offshore engineering surveys.
- Discuss the capabilities and limitations of some survey techniques and instrumentation in transferring positions and orientations underground in underground mines or in tunnelling projects.
Effective as of Winter 2025
Related Programs
Engineering Surveying (GEOM 4060) is offered as a part of the following programs:
- Indicates programs accepting international students.
School of Construction and the Environment
- Geomatics Engineering Technology
Diploma Full-time
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