Practice at Chainman level | Makerere University Courses

Course Code:

CES1105

Course Credit Units:

4

Semester:

Semester 1

Year of Study:

Year 2

Undergraduate or Graduate Level:

Undergraduate Level

Academic Programs:

Diploma In Civil Engineering and Surveying

College:

College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology

School:

School of Engineering

Department:

civil engineering

Course Description & Objectives:

This course is a basic to the profession. It uses what has been learned in CES1101, CES1102 and CES1104. Practice should come instinctively, as with riding a bicycle. It must be flexible to cater for an international private sector (mostly) clientele. The practice of surveying cannot be taught by handouts and assessed by written examinations, nor made to comply with a single method of record keeping.The chainman is characterised by having the right people and right equipment and materials in the right place at the right time.The student groups are taught how to carry out tasks and then supervised as they work on their own. Objectives:

The purpose of this course is to give practice with the instruments that can be handled at this level in the field
To teach a methodical approach to field work at this level
Face the problem of collecting field data relevant to a civil engineering proposal.

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

Write up the field sheets orderly and legibly with reading in tabulated form.
Carry out simple tape site surveys efficiently and speedily, including foreseeing what is to be done next and having the equipment in the right place ahead of time
Be familiar with the instrumentation.
Reduce for slope in the tape readings
Plot the control to scale, determining accuracy and adjusting small misclosures