NRM: LAND SURVEYING
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

A graduate of this program will:

1. Study the elementary surveying measurements and computations and the opportunities and responsibilities in the surveying profession.

2. Write property descriptions to include descriptions, interpretation, and application to boundary line retracement and the writing of different types of property descriptions.

3. Study methods of boundary line establishment by unwritten methods, registration of surveyors, professionalism, liability of surveyors and other case and statute law related to property surveying.

4. Evaluate economic, political and social concepts impacting sustainable development and the use of natural resources.

5. Study different methods and instruments used to measure angles, distances and differences in elevation, and also study making traverse adjustments, area computations and various position computations.

6. Study error propagation in survey measurements and computations, design of horizontal and vertical control nets, meridian determination, map projections, and introduction to least square adjustment.

7. Apply measurement and computational techniques and boundary law to the retracement of property boundary lines.

8. Develop an understanding of land-based renewable resources including forests, rangeland, farmland, outdoor recreation, and wildlife.

9. Study runoff volume, culvert selection, storm water, pond design, flood routing and subdivision design principles.

10. Study state and federal mining, oil and gas regulations as related to surveying and the production of maps and plans and an applied study of the surveying and measurement techniques peculiar to the mining and the oil and gas industry.