CIVIL TECHNOLOGY

Catalog description

Combines lectures, assignments and lab work to give the student a basic understanding of civil technology including civil drafting, basic surveying, and mapping procedures. The student will develop skills in the use of AutoCAD Civil 3D for civil design and drafting applications as well as the use and maintenance of survey equipment. Covers basics of mapping including contours, symbols, topography, curve geometry, and curve data. Methods of calculating angles, bearings, distances, areas, quantities, and slope. Practical problems given in cross-sections and profiles, cuts and fills, grades, earthwork, and horizontal alignment layout and simple curve layout. Concepts of survey, leveling procedures, traverse closures and areas, triangulation, construction surveys, and computations by various methods. Mastery of correct methods of note-taking and electronic data collection. Pre-requisites: ENGTE-105 , ENGTE-154 , and MTHPT-137 .