Course Title: Operate surveying equipment
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2022
Course Code: GEOM5184C
Course Title: Operate surveying equipment
Important Information:
Please note that this course may have compulsory in-person attendance requirements for some teaching activities.
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School: 530T Built Environment and Sustainability
Campus: City Campus
Program: C4417 - Certificate IV in Surveying and Spatial Information Services
Course Contact: Matthew Sweeney
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4105
Course Contact Email: matthew.sweeney@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
Dr. Toby Manning | Program Coordinator - Building, Surveying and Land Management
College of Vocational Education
RMIT University
+61 39925 4934
Nominal Hours: 100
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.
Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
None
Course Description
In this course you will develop the skills and knowledge required to use a range of surveying equipment for data capture or spatial data set-out. This includes selecting, setting up and operating surveying equipment to perform basic measurements, and recording and calculating horizontal and vertical information. This also includes validating and checking data accuracy and performing basic data reductions and manipulation using software.
This course is suitable for entry-level technicians who use a broad range of cognitive, technical and communication skills to select and apply a range of methods, tools, materials and information to complete routine and non-routine activities and provide and transmit solutions to a variety of predictable and sometimes unpredictable problems.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
CPPSSI4030 Operate surveying equipment |
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1. Plan surveying tasks |
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1.1 Identify and clarify task requirements with appropriate persons. 1.2 Interpret technical and diagrammatic information in task specifications and designs. 1.3 Review design information to identify components to be measured in consultation with appropriate persons. 1.4 Select and check surveying equipment to meet task requirements and report problems according to manufacturer and organisational requirements. 1.5 Identify hazards associated with task, implement control measures to manage risks and report problems according to organisational requirements. |
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2. Execute surveying tasks |
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2.1 Set up and adjust equipment required to measure identified survey components according to standard operating procedures. 2.2 Operate equipment and software to manipulate basic spatial data. 2.3 Cooperate with on-site personnel according to task requirements. 2.4 Comply with organisational, legislative and manufacturer requirements for working safely. |
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3. Calculate surveying data |
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3.1 Reduce and manipulate measured surveying data for comparison with design to meet task and organisational requirements. 3.2 Confirm that measurements and computations meet industry-accepted standards for accuracy. 3.3 Check data against task requirements and identify and resolve errors in consultation with appropriate persons. 3.4 Validate and record clear and accurate measurements, computations and field checks according to industry-accepted standards and organisational requirements. |
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4. Finalise surveying tasks |
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4.1 Finalise surveying activities and process data according to task and organisational requirements. 4.2 Record and document measurements and data according to organisational requirements. 4.3 Pack up and store equipment according to manufacturer specifications and organisational requirements. 4.4 Report any identified faults and problems with equipment. 4.5 Complete documentation and store data according to organisational requirements. |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this course you will have developed and applied the skills and knowledge required to demonstrate competency in the above elements.
Details of Learning Activities
You will learn to:
- Planning for surveying operations
- Completing field-based activities
- Quality assurance checks during field operations
- Completing documentation and finalising project requirements
The total number of scheduled hours of teaching, learning and assessment involved in this course includes all planned activities (face to face classes, lectures, workshops and seminars; workplace visits, online learning and other forms of structured teaching and learning). It also covers the amount of effort necessary to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, observation of work performance, discussions with supervisors and others providing third party evidence and one on one and group assessment sessions with students.
Teaching Schedule
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Activity 1: Introduction to Traversing Methods of setting up and operating the total station will be introduced through this initial field activity. |
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Activity 2: Closed traverse on single face This activity is designed to introduce the industry procedure for transferring a bearing around a closed loop traverse. The concepts and methods of calculating accuracy will be introduced. |
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Activity 3: Closed loop traversing using FL/FR measurements Introduction to the manual methods of calculating the average bearing along a traverse line. Introduction to distance measurements and their role in traverse measurements. |
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Activity 4: Closed loop traversing using FL/FR measurements Introduction to the manual methods of calculating the average bearing along a traverse line. Introduction to distance measurements and their role in traverse measurements. |
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Activity 5: Longer-distance closed loop traversing using FL/FR measurements Introduction to the manual methods of calculating the average bearing along a traverse line. Introduction to distance measurements and their role in traverse measurements. |
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Activity 6: Introduction to set-out procedures using a total station The concepts and principle for manual set out procedures will be introduced using a simple lot and house design. |
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Activity 7: Introduction to circular curve set-out procedures using a total station The concepts and principle for manual set out procedures will be introduced using a simple circular curve design. This practical workflow is designed to learn the skills and knowledge required for completing Assessment 1. |
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Assessment 1: Circular Curve set-out. Part 1: Planning for field survey. The assessment will be introduced including the practical requirements, which will be assessed through observation, and the written requirements, which will be uploaded to CANVAS at the conclusion of the project. |
Break |
Mid semester break |
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Assessment 1: Circular Curve set-out. Part 2: Conducting the field survey. This second part will be conducted in the field. Time will be allocated to complete all practical set out requirements. All elements for this practical component will be assessed through observation. |
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Assessment 1: Circular Curve set-out. Part 3: Finalising the field survey. This class will be dedicated to finalising all written elements required to be submitted in the report. |
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Activity 11: Recovery Survey using the total station This activity introduces the concepts of manually getting onto datum and recovering the location of survey marks that are unable to be found. |
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Activity 12: Recovery Survey using the total station This activity introduces the concepts of manually getting onto datum and recovering the location of survey marks that are unable to be found. |
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Activity 13: Introduction to feature surveys using the total station This class will be dedicated to learning the skills and knowledge required for completing a feature survey using a total station. |
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Assessment 2: Feature Survey Part 1: Planning for field survey. The assessment will be introduced including the practical requirements, which will be assessed through observation, and the written requirements, which will be uploaded to CANVAS at the conclusion of the project. |
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Assessment 1: Feature Survey Part 2: Conducting the field survey. This second part will be conducted in the field. Time will be allocated to complete all practical requirements. All elements for this practical component will be assessed through observation. |
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Assessment 2: Feature Survey Part 3: Finalising the field survey. This class will be dedicated to finalising all written elements required to be submitted in the report. |
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
All email communications will be sent to your RMIT email address and you must regularly check your RMIT emails.
Students will be able to access course information and learning materials through the Learning Hub and may be provided with additional materials in class. Lists of relevant reference books, resources in the library and accessible Internet sites will be provided where possible. You will also use equipment and software packages in the laboratory for the project work. During the course, you will be directed to websites to enhance your knowledge and understanding of difficult concepts
Check the Library Subject Guides: http://rmit.libguides.com/geospatial
Overview of Assessment
Assessment for this course is ongoing throughout the semester. Your knowledge and understanding of course content is assessed through participation in class exercises, oral presentations and through the application of learned skills and insights to your written tasks. Full assessment briefs will be provided and can be found on CANVAS.
Assessment Tasks
Assessment 1: Curve Set-out using a Total Station
Assessment 2: Feature Survey Project using GNSS
Assessment Matrix
Mapping Assessments to the Unit of Competency
Performance Evidence |
Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency. |
Performance Evidence | ||
To demonstrate competency a candidate must meet the elements and performance criteria of this unit by for two different surveying tasks. | ||
In completing the surveying tasks the candidate must operate a total station and an automatic, digital or laser level as well as one other item of surveying equipment for spatial data capture or data set-out from the following: |
Assessment Task 1: Building Set Out (Total Station and Automatic Level) |
Assessment Task 2: GNSS Control Survey |
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The candidate must use two of the following while capturing or setting out surveying data for each of the above surveying tasks: | ||
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To be competent in this unit a candidate must demonstrate knowledge of: |
Assessment Task 1: Building Set Out |
Assessment Task 2: GNSS Control Survey |
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Techniques to solve basic problems relating to height, dimension, direction and position
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Relevant safe work method statements (SWMS) and job safety analyses (JSA). |
PART B1.1 |
Part B 1.1 |
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Assessment conditions |
Describe how assessments meet the assessment conditions |
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Assessors must meet the requirements for assessors contained in the Standards for Registered Training Organisations. Competency is to be assessed in the workplace or a simulated environment that accurately reflects performance in a real workplace setting where these skills and knowledge would be performed. |
RMIT employment requires all trainers and assessors to comply with the Standards for RTOs in respect to holding the TAE40116, or higher VE qualification including any necessary updated units. All employees must show currency within their vocational specialty along with their professional employment
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All survey equipment required to complete the two assignments will be provided by RMIT at the Bundoora campus |
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Each piece of equipment being used for the two assignments will have operating manuals stored with them that students will have full access to |
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Students will be provided with operating procedure guides and all documents to carry out the task with the ranges of Surveying equipment being used. To carry out AT1 and AT2 tasks |
Other Information
Credit Transfer and/or Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL):
You may be eligible for credit towards courses in your program if you have already met the learning/competency outcomes through previous learning and/or industry experience. To be eligible for credit towards a course, you must demonstrate that you have already completed learning and/or gained industry experience that is:
- Relevant
- Current
- Satisfies the learning/competency outcomes of the course
Please refer to http://www.rmit.edu.au/students/enrolment/credit to find more information about credit transfer and RPL.
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Late submission:
If you require an Extension of Submittable Work (assignments, reports or project work etc.) for 7 calendar days or less (from the original due date) and have valid reasons, you must complete and lodge an Application for Extension of Submittable Work (7 Calendar Days or less) form and lodge it with the Senior Educator/ Program Manager.
The application must be lodged no later than one working day before the official due date. You will be notified within no more than 2 working days of the date of lodgment as to whether the extension has been granted.
If you seek an Extension of Submittable Work for more than 7 calendar days (from the original due date) must lodge an Application for Special Consideration form under the provisions of the Special Consideration Policy, preferably prior to, but no later than 2 working days after the official due date.
Submittable Work (assignments, reports or project work etc.) submitted late without approval of an extension will not be accepted or marked.
Special consideration:
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Academic Integrity:
"Academic integrity means acting with the values of honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility in learning, teaching and research."
It means referencing the work of others while developing your own insights, knowledge and ideas.
Breaches of academic integrity include:
- plagiarism and failure to correctly acknowledge sources
- contract cheating or paying/getting another person to prepare an assignment
- submitting work prepared by another person
- copying other people’s work
- cheating in exams
- breaching the Research Code
- using unauthorised materials or devices
Please Refer: https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/student-essentials/assessment-and-exams/academic-integrity to find more information about plagiarism.
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