Practice at Survey Assistant level | Makerere University Courses

Course Code:

CES 2105

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 Discipline:

physics

Course Description & Objectives:

The Survey Assistant should be familiar, in practice, with all instruments and methods of measurement. This practical course gives the opportunity for students to practice with most types of equipment in all the common methods of measurement, both in trying out what was learned in the course on data collection and in preparing for presentations in case studies in the course on Reading the Field. The student groups are encouraged to carry out the tasks mostly on their own. Objectives:

Fixing position of unknowns from known positions
Familiarisation with methods of measurement that require different computational methods
Permanent adjustments of theodolite and other used instruments

Learning Outcomes:

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

Understand the theodolite, tachometer and total station, and how to care for them
Know how and when to use the different methods of measurement (traversing, triangulation, resection, etc.) and compute their accuracies.
Know the computational methods involved with each method of measurement (slope staking, following a gradient, trigonometric levelling).