MCCCD Program Description

Major: 5203 Catalog Year: 2023-2024 Effective Term: 2015 Summer Last Admit Term: 2022 Summer Award: CCL Total Credits: 24 CIP Code: 15.1102	Primary College: Initiating College: Phoenix College Program Availability: Not Found Program Availability: College-Specific (Mor) Program Availability: Field of Interest: Not Found Instructional Council: Drafting (24) GPA: 2.0
SOC Code: 17-3031.00

Description: The Certificate of Completion (CCL) in Surveying Technology is a program of study designed to provide students with skills for surveying positions of responsible charge in the field or office of local municipalities or consulting firms. Students in this program receive education and training designed to perform multiple surveying tasks related to boundaries, construction, and mapping. An Associate in Applied Science (AAS) degree is also available.

Program graduates are prepared for entry-level positions as survey instrument persons, survey technicians, or civil CAD technicians.

Suggested Course Plan Sequenced by Semester

Required Courses

ARC121 Introduction to Architectural Drafting: Manual 3
CAD100 Fundamentals of 2D AutoCAD 3
CAD186 Site Development I 3
+ CET101 Surveying I 3
+ CET102 Surveying II 3
+ CET150 Introduction to Geodesy and Map Projection 3
+ CET201 Boundary Control and Legal Principles 3
+ CET202 Writing Legal Descriptions 3

Credits: 24

Restricted Electives
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General Electives
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Program Competencies
1. Use drafting media including ink, lead, mylar, vellum, and sketching paper. (ARC121) 2. Use computer-aided drafting to produce construction drawings. (CAD100) 3. Interpret and draft construction drawings. (CAD100, CAD186) 4. Develop civil drawings using the proper linework and symbology for land plats, contour maps, land subdivisions, and profiles for land contours. (CAD186) 5. Determine topographical grades by obtaining elevations of points on a line. (CAD186, CET101, CET102) 6. Survey a parcel of land. (CET101, CET102) 7. Use transit, level and/or theodolite to make angular measurements. (CET101, CET102) 8. Define, develop, apply, analyze, and adjust transverse Mercator, Lambert conformal, and local projections. (CET150) 9. Perform calculations of the Arizona plane coordinate systems. (CET150) 10. Write a legal description of a parcel of land. (CET201, CET202) 11. Identify and describe legal rights-of-way and easements. (CET201, CET202)
+ indicates course has prerequisites and/or corequisites. ++ indicates that any suffixed course may be selected. MCCCD Governing Board Approval Date: June 24, 2014

All information published is subject to change without notice. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of information presented, but based on the dynamic nature of the curricular process, course and program information is subject to change in order to reflect the most current information available.