2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Environment and Society Undergraduate major in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Practice in Surveying
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Nobuyuki Utsumi / Amadou Syll
- Class Format
- Experiment
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Class
- -
- Course Code
- CVE.M230
- Number of credits
- 001
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course consists of guidance in the classroom and field works (intensive course). At first, this course reviews fundamentals which have been learned in the lecture "Surveying", and gives instruction of techniques of surveying using basic equipment. In the latter part of the course, advanced equipment will be introduced. Through the practising surveying with them, students will learn characteristics difference with the basic equipments. This course also shows most-advanced equipments that are supported by computers and GPS (global positioning system). This course develops communication skills as well as the surveying skills.
Course description and aims
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
1. Treat errors by appropriate method.
2. Conduct levelling, traverse survey, topographical survey, and detail mapping with other people.
3. Describe difference between characteristics of basic surveying equipments and ones of advanced surveying equipments.
Keywords
levelling, traverse survey, topographical survey, detail mapping, total station
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Students must attend guidance of which date will be notified by the notice board of the department of civil and environmental engineering. The guidance will give overall instructions, and the course will be held in the field from class 2 as an intensive course. Students perform the practice of surveying in groups. Teamwork and communication skills are essential elements to acquire good achievement.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Guidance | Understand the procedure and evaluation criterion of this class. |
| Class 2 | Lecture on fundamentals of surveying | Practice of surveying using basic equipments Levelling and angle measurement |
| Class 3 | Practice of surveying using advanced equipments 1 | Levelling |
| Class 4 | Practice of surveying using advanced equipments 2 | Traverse survey and topographical survey |
| Class 5 | Practice of surveying using advanced equipments 3 | Topographical survey and detail mapping |
| Class 6 | Seminar: Frontier of surveying equipments | Understand function of most-advanced equipments |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend a certain length of time outside of class on preparation and review (including for assignments), as specified by the Tokyo Institute of Technology Rules on Undergraduate Learning (東京工業大学学修規程) and the Tokyo Institute of Technology Rules on Graduate Learning (東京工業大学大学院学修規程), for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
None required.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
"Introduction of practice of survey" are provided during class.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Students will be assessed on their attendance, precision of surveying, and considerations in reports. The precision of surveying will be evaluated in respective groups. The considerations in reports are evaluated in every student.
Related courses
- CVE.M203 ： Surveying
Prerequisites
Take a credit of "Surveying," or equivalent knowledge is desirable.