CIV205

Course Description

This course covers plane surveying, topographical surveying, horizontal and vertical curves, topographic surveys, construction surveys, earthwork, route surveying. Use of specialized software for earthwork calculations, site grading, site layout, adjusting measured quantities, calculating coordinates and areas, and locating points for design grades and planned roadways. Mathematical topics for surveying andconstruction including probability, error and precision; matrix operations; allocation theory; network analysis; and constraint based optimization.Applications of global positioning systems and geographical information systems to civil engineering projects. Brief coverage of the fundamental concepts of the systems.

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