A course of study that prepares students to use mathematical and scientific principles for the delineation, determination, planning and positioning of land tracts, boundaries, contours and features applying principles of route surveying, construction surveying, photogrammetry, mapping, global positioning systems, geographical information systems, and other kinds of property description and measurement to create related maps, charts and reports.
Includes instruction in applied geodesy, computer graphics, photointerpretation, plane and geodetic surveying, mensuration, traversing, survey equipment operation and maintenance, instrument calibration, and basic cartography.
Graduates should qualify for jobs as survey party chief, instrument person, surveying technician, highway surveyor, mapper, GPS technician, and CAD operator. Graduates will be prepared to pursue the requirements necessary to become a Registered Land Surveyor in North Carolina. Because the use of computers is integral to this curriculum, some courses are delivered in an online format.
Unique Aspects of the Geomatics Technology Program
Students can double major and earn degrees in both Surveying Technology and Civil Engineering Technology by simply completing four extra classes.
Graduates earning the Associate in Applied Science degree have several transfer opportunities including Bachelor of Science programs in Geomantics, Civil Engineering Technology and Construction Management.
Graduates are prepared to enter both public and private design, construction, and mapping industries, which helps ensure that the majority of graduates are able to find jobs in their chosen field of study.
The surveying technology faculty believes in education both inside and outside of the classroom. Students participate in rigorous academic challenges in class while learning fundamentals and completing advanced hands on projects using the latest technologies.
Students have annual opportunities to interact with professionals, tour construction sites and projects and to attend conferences and expositions off-campus with faculty.
Since 2000, our students and faculty have taken architectural tours in London, Paris, Washington D.C., Charleston, S.C. and New York City. They have explored engineering wonders such as the Hoover Dam in Nevada, the Central Artery/Tunnel project in Boston, MA, the Biltmore estate in Asheville, N.C., the Arthur Ravenel Jr. bridge in Charleston, S.C., the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, the Nationals Baseball Stadium in Washington, D.C., and One World Trade Center in New York City.
Surveyors are involved in land surveying, route surveying, construction surveying, photogrammetry, mapping, global positioning systems, geographical information systems, and other areas of property descriptions and measurements.
Sandhills Community College Surveying Technology graduates qualify for jobs as survey party chiefs, instrument persons, surveying technicians, highway surveyors, mappers, GPS technicians, and CAD operators.
Graduates will be prepared to pursue the requirements necessary to become a Professional Land Surveyor in North Carolina.