This seven-week intensive course will prepare students to take the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) Fundamentals of Surveying (FS) examination - "the FS Exam". Concepts and topics covered over the seven weeks will include: the Public Land Survey System (i.e. section, township, and quadrangle layout, single and double proportioning, closing corners, meander lines), easements, title, deeds, descriptions, evidence, simultaneous conveyances, records research, rules of construction, riparian rights, order of operations, quadratic equations, triangles, degree to decimal degree conversions, bearing to azimuth conversions, magnetic declination, horizontal and vertical curves, area calculations, intersection of lines/slope, photogrammetry, statistics and probability, field measurements and corrections, differential level loops, geodesy, state plane coordinates, grid/ground calculations, least squares and traverse adjustments.
Syllabus
Course Text: Fundamentals of Surveying: Exam Study Manual (2nd Edition) - Dane Courville, PLS