MCCCD Program Description

Major: 3011 Catalog Year: 2024-2025 Effective Term: 2015 Spring Last Admit Term: 2015 Spring Award: AAS Total Credits: 60 CIP Code: 15.1102	Primary College: Initiating College: Phoenix College Program Availability: Not Found Program Availability: College-Specific Program Availability: Field of Interest: Not Found Instructional Council: Drafting (24) GPA: 2.0
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Description: The Associate in Applied Science (AAS) 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. A Certificate of Completion (CCL) is also available.

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

Suggested Course Plan Sequenced by Semester

Required Courses

Certificate of Completion in Surveying Technology (5203) 24
+ CET205 Photogrammetry 3
+ CET250 Public Land Surveying System 3
+ CET257 Route and Construction Surveying 3
+ GBS220 Quantitative Methods in Business 3
+ MAT206 Elements of Statistics 3

Credits: 39

Restricted Electives
Any 100/200 level ARC or CAD prefixed courses may be selected, except courses used to satisfy the Required Courses area. 1-2 CIS+++++ Any CIS Computer Information Systems course 1-2 CNS+++++ Any CNS Construction courses 1-2 PED+++++ Any PED Physical Education (101, 102, 115, 201, 202) courses 1-2	Credits: 0-2

General Electives
	Credits:

General Education Requirements

General Education Requirement	Credits: 19-22

General Education Core	Credits: 9-12

First-Year Composition	Credits: 6
+ Any approved general education courses in the First-Year Composition area

Oral Communication	Credits: 3
Any approved general education course in the Oral Communication area

Critical Reading	Credits: 0-3
+ Any approved general education course in the Critical Reading area (3) OR Equivalent as indicated by assessment.

Mathematics	Credits: 0
Met by MAT206 in Required Courses area.

General Education Distribution	Credits: 10

Humanities, Arts and Design	Credits: 3
CNS101 Construction and Culture 3

Social-Behavioral Sciences	Credits: 3
Any approved general education course in the Social and Behavioral Sciences area.

Natural Sciences	Credits: 4
Any approved general education course in the Natural Sciences area.

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) 12. Develop contour maps and digital terrain models (DTM) from processed aerial data. (CET205) 13. Determine horizontal distances and elevations from aerial photography. (CET205) 14. Develop techniques to create and analyze orthophotos. (CET205) 15. Use the Bureau of Land Management Manual. (CET250) 16. Establish subdivision boundaries of regular sections using proper methods. (CET250) 17. Analyze resurveys of public lands. (CET250) 18. Identify special surveys and apply proper rules. (CET250) 19. Use modern survey technology to create topographic mapping. (CET257) 20. Perform civil engineering/public works construction surveys, route surveys, and staking techniques, including highways, streets, pipelines, tunnels, culverts, and bridges. (CET257) 21. Perform civil engineering/architectural building construction surveys. (CET257) 22. Conduct as-built or final surveys. (CET257) 23. Collect, organize, present, analyze, and interpret numerical data using frequency distributions and graphical presentations. (GBS220, MAT206) 24. Use statistical inference techniques and confidence levels for decision-making when testing hypotheses. (MAT206) 25. Use statistical process management and control charting to solve statistical quality control problems. (MAT206)
+ 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.