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| Date | Topic | Objective |
Reading
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Homework
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Due
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| Apr 24 | Introduction Class and GIS | Virtual Campus 1, 2, 4 | GIS Modules 1, 2, 4 (lab) | ||
| Surveying Introduction: Methods and Instruments | Chapter 1, 2 | 2 Prob 19, 25, 27, 30, 35, 36, 37 | |||
| Apr 26 | Accuracy, Precision, Field Work, Horizontal Measurements | Chapter 4 | 4 Prob 4, 7, 9, 18, 19 | ||
| Trigonmetry Review | Chapter 3 | 3 Prob 6a, 7c, 9acf, 11ac, 16, 20, 21, 24, 29, 40 | |||
| May 1 | Vertical Distances & Leveling | Chapter 5 | 5 Prob 1ce, 3a, 8a, 12b, 14, 16 | ||
| Angles and Directions | Chapter 6.1-6.3 | 6 Prob 1, 5, 10, 12, 14 | |||
| May 3 | Measuring Horizontal Angles | Chapter 6 | 6 Prob 17, 20 Extra Homework a&b |
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| Traverses and more Azimuths and Bearings | Chapter 7.1-7.2 | 7 Prob 1, 4 (compute azimuths and bearings of each side) | |||
| May 8 | GIS - Coordinate Systems | Virtual Campus 3 | GIS Modules 3 | ||
| GIS - Data sources, Layouts and Cartography | Virtual Campus 5, 8 | GIS Modules 5, 8 (lab) | |||
| May 10 | Open Traverses - Latitudes and Departures | Chapter 7 | |||
| Public Land Survey System | Chapter 8 | 8 Prob 2, 8, 17, 18 | |||
| May 15 | Closed Traverses | Chapter 7 -Compass Rule & Coordinate Method |
7 Prob 7, 11, 19 | ||
| May 17 | More on closed traverses - exam review | Chapter 7 | 7 Prob 28, 30, 36, 38 | ||
| May 18-21 | Midterm | ||||
| May 17 | Topographic map introduction, 2 point resection | Chapter 9 | 9 Prob 12a, 18, 20 |
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| May 22 | 3 point resection | Chapter 9 -3 point resection help -3 point resection example problem |
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| May 22 | GIS - TINS and topographic maps - breaklines - extracting values | ||||
| GIS - More data sources and DEMs | |||||
| May 24 | Highway construction design overview and horizontal curves | Chapter 10.1-10.3 | 10 Prob 2, 4, 10, 14,16 | ||
| Don't Do | Layout, additional highway applications (stationing of multiple curves, compound curves, and other) | Chapter 10.4, 10.6 | 10 Prob 12, 22 |
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| May 29 | Vertical curves | Chapter 10.5 | 10 Prob 26, 28, 30, 34 | ||
| Cross sections and earthwork, Borrow pits | Chapter 10.7 | 10 Prob 42, 44, 46 |
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| May 31 | Construction Stuff | ||||
| Jun 5 | GPS | ||||
| GIS - More map making | Lab Manual Ch. 13 | Sample Map Layout | |||
| Jun 7 | Professional Licensure | ||||
| Review | |||||
| Jun 12 | Reading Day | ||||
| Jun 14 | 7 - 9 am Final Exam |