Surveying Engineering (Certificate)

 

Surveying Engineering (Certificate)

Changing technologies in the surveying engineering world requires working professionals to return to an academic world to expand their knowledge. Professional Land Surveyors with a BS degree in surveying or related field will expand on their undergraduate knowledge. Similarly professional land surveyors with a non-surveying undergraduate degree will be able to capture knowledge in their chosen second career. The Graduate Certificate in Surveying Engineering requires completion of a minimum of 12 credits of coursework.

The twelve or more credits of coursework must include four classes selected from this list:

   

• GIS 400: Geographic Information Systems II (4 credits)

• GIS 420: Remote Sensing and Image Analysis (4 credits)

• SIE 509: Principles of Geographic Information Systems (3 credits)

• SVT 437: Practical GNSS (3 credits)

• SVT 475: Small Business Management (3 credits)

• SVT 501: Advanced Adjustment Computations (3 credits)

• SVT 511: Geodetic US Public Land Survey Computations (3 credits)

• SVT 512: Survey Law and Policy (3 credits)

• SVT 513: Advanced Studies in Boundary Law (3 credits)

• SVT 531: Advanced Digital Photogrammetry (3 credits)

• SVT 532: Survey Strategies in Use of Lidar (3 credits)

• SVT 541: Geodesy (3 credits)

• SVT 542: Applied Hydrographic Surveying (3 credits)

• SVT 598: Selected Studies in Surveying Engineering Technology (3 credits)

Only courses in which the student obtained a grade of B or higher count towards the completion of the Surveying Engineering Graduate Certificate.

Surveying Engineering Graduate Certificate Admission

Students to be admitted into the Surveying Engineering Graduate Certificate must hold an undergraduate degree and have a cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.0 or higher. Candidates must submit a transcript of their undergraduate degree, essay, and one reference letter. Students can apply to transfer up to 3 credits of graduate course work into the Surveying Engineering Graduate Certificate. The Surveying Engineering Certificate does not allow transfer credits.

 

Continuation to Professional Science Masters in Engineering and Business Surveying Engineering Concentration

Upon completion of the Graduate Certificate in Surveying Engineering a student may apply for admission to the Professional Science Masters in Engineering and Business Surveying Engineering Concentration (PSM) or the Masters of Science in Engineering Technology Surveying Engineering Technology Concentration (MS ET). The twelve credits received in the certificate will count as twelve credits of surveying courses in the PSM or MS ET.
 

Additional Information

Course Descriptions can be found in this catalog using the navigation in the left menu.

Surveying Engineering Graduate Faculty

Carlton Brown, PhD, PE, PLS (University of Maine 2008), Associate Professor , cadastral surveys, land tenure, carlton.brown@maine.edu

Knud Hermansen, PhD, JD, PE, PLS (West Virginia University 1989), Professor, boundary law, construction surveying, knud.hermansen@maine.edu

Raymond Hintz, PhD, PLS (University of Wisconsin 1983), Professor and Graduate Coordinator, ray.hintz@maine.edu