Surveying
Degree level:
Associate
Before any home, office building, store or even a sidewalk is built, the land needs to be surveyed.
An associate degree in surveying combines the skills of mapping with your love of being outdoors to provide you with great career opportunities. During the program, much of your time is spent outdoors doing field surveying, construction layouts, data collection and additional advanced survey projects that are required in the surveying profession. And all the while, you’ll be developing the math and field skills needed for surveying in the horizontal and vertical planes.
Our surveying program will also build your board drafting and computer-aided drafting (CAD) skills, which help you communicate the results of field projects and supplement the in-field classes you’ll be taking. Visits to survey project sites and other surveying-related facilities are also included in the coursework. Courses that give you knowledge about the public land surveying system, state plane coordinate systems and advanced surveying math calculations help round out your education so that when you graduate, you’ll have the skills to compete for a position in surveying, such as a survey technician, instrument man or rod man.
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Did You Know?
- Our accelerated approach can help you earn your bachelor’s degree in as little as 3 years.
Surveying Course Information
A surveying degree opens up a world of possibilities. Course topics include:
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Upon successful completion of the program, you will be able to:
- Apply knowledge in plane and advanced surveying necessary for an entry-level position in the mapping profession and surveying
- Utilize hands-on training in field surveying, construction layouts, data collection and advanced survey projects
- Apply theoretical surveying techniques essential to the industry and produce the technical drawings necessary to convey the results of field projects
- Use career management techniques to advance your career
Locations offering the associate degree in
Surveying
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Our graduates receive hands-on, career-focused training. Don't wait another day; start transforming your life into the one you've always wanted.
Did You Know?
- Our accelerated approach can help you earn your bachelor’s degree in as little as 3 years.
Where could your Surveying degree take you?
Take a look at a few of the career paths that might be yours with an associate degree in surveying from Westwood College.
Instrument Man
- Measure angles, elevations or distancing using the tranist, theodolite, level or other instruments.
Rodman
- Operate basic tools including rod, measuring tapes and prisms in assisting the crew in gathering of information for engineering design and boundary determination
Survey Technician
- Assist the party chief by adjusting and operating surveying instruments, such as the total station, which measures and records angles and distances simultaneously
- Help position and hold the vertical rods, or targets, that the operator sights on to measure angles, distances or elevations
- Compile notes, make sketches and enter the data obtained from surveying instruments into computers, either in the field or at the office
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Our graduates receive hands-on, career-focused training. Don't wait another day; start transforming your life into the one you've always wanted.
Did You Know?
- Our accelerated approach can help you earn your bachelor’s degree in as little as 3 years.
Westwood has prepared our surveying graduates for careers with employers such as:
COLORADO REGION*
| Baseline Land Surveying | Pitsker & Associates |
| Buckhorn Geotech | Power Surveying |
| Flagstaff Surveying | R&R Engineers and Surveyors, Inc. |
| Intermap | Trimble Navigation Ltd. |
| King Surveyors | Zumwalt Construction |
*Westwood College must track the initial employers of its graduates for regulatory and accreditation purposes. This list is a taken from a compilation of employers of Westwood College graduates from each region from June 2007 to June 2008. This is not intended to represent an endorsement of Westwood College by the listed employers.
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