FE 310
Forest Route Surveying
The Sequence of Surveying / Measurements Courses:
FE 310 is one course from an integrated sequence of three courses in Forest Surveying and Measurements (FE 208, FE 209, FE 310). FE 310 will utilize the knowledge and experience from FE 208 as applied to the specifics of forest route surveying and site surveys particular to forestry problems and their solutions. FE 310 provides fundamental instruction for forest road layout, horizontal and vertical curve staking, earthwork volume calculations, slope staking, and pit volume estimations. FE 310 is also intended to prepare forest engineering students for Forest Route Surveying, Control Surveying (CE 463), Property Surveying (CE469), and Survey Law (CE 465). This sequence of courses is designed to prepare students for the Fundamentals of Land Surveying exam that is necessary to become a Professional Land Surveyor.
Course Goals:
There are two primary goals for this course. The first is to learn and become proficient in understanding the basics of forest road layout and survey including P-line survey techniques, Horizontal curve layout and calculations, vertical curve computations, earthwork volume estimates and slope staking, and rock pit survey and volume calculations. The second goal, which is consistent throughout all Forest Surveying and Measurement courses, is the development and application of good professional practices.
Course Objectives:
The goals for this course will be to learn basic forest route survey techniques including traversing, leveling, cross sections, horizontal and vertical curves, earthwork computations, and site survey techniques. In addition, our constant goal in all of the course work will be the development and application of good professional practices.
Specific learning objective modules for the course are:
Describe and apply the fundamentals of P-line survey including traversing, leveling, and cross sections.
Successfully solve surveying problems of location and staking of horizontal curves.
Successfully solve surveying problems of location and staking of vertical curves.
Describe the components of earthwork and compute earthwork quantities for both roads and pit areas.
Describe the components to construction staking and successfully solve slope-staking problems.
Describe the concepts of survey order and be able to design an appropriate field survey for a bridge site.
