Review of Civil Engineering Course Materials Please Review Before Class Surveying TutorialReview of Civil Engineering OUTLINE * General Information — Board for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors — Information for Examinees (test plan, etc.) — Section 6731, Business and Professions Code * Field Activities and Equipment — Definitions, Methods, and Procedures for: * Control Surveys; * Construction Surveys; * Route Surveys; and * Topographic Surveys — Types of Errors/Accuracy Standards + Field Measurements — Angular Measurements (Horizontal and Vertical) — Horizontal Measurements (Distance) — Vertical Measurements (Leveling) — Global Positioning (GPS) * Other Office Calculations ~ Use of Decimal Degrees — Trigonometric Formulae — Horizontal Curves ~ Vertical Curves — Traverse Surveying and Adjustment — Area Calculation of a Closed Figure + More “Stuff” — Metrication (International Foot vs. U.S. Survey Foot) — U.S. Public Lands Survey System (USPLSS) — Horizontal Datums — Vertical Datums — Photogrammetry — Scales — Geographic Information Systems (GIS)Review of Civil Engineering OUTLINE (Continued) * Sample Problems and Solutions + Reference Materials — CalTrans Staking Information — Abbreviations (CT-typical for CalTrans Survey Manual as source) — Field Note Topo Symbols (CT) — Curves (CT) * Horizontal, Vertical, Parabolic Flares/Tapers — Plane Geometry (CT) — Area of Polygons (CT) — Constants and Useful Data (CT) ~ Surveyors Measures (CT) — Section 8801, Public Resources Code (California Coordinate System) — Survey Datums and the California Coordinate System (CT) ¢ Horizontal Datums (1976) ¢ Vertical Datums (1976) * Califomia Coordinate System (1976-Note: there is no Zone 7 in CCS83) — Metric Quick Reference Sheet (CT) — Portion ASTM E380-92, Section 5