Curriculum Proposal System
Course Details


Proposal: SC-08-07
Course number: 2980:228
New course number: same
Course title: Boundary Surveying
New course title: same
Credit hours:
Fixed: Current 3.0 New 3.0
Variable: Current min. n/a New min. n/a
Current max. n/a New max. n/a
Repeatable for additional credit?
Current no New no
Max. credits 3.0 Max. credits 3.0
Grading method: Current: letter grade
New: letter grade
Subsidy level: Current: Technical
New: Technical
Flexibly Scheduled Course: Current: no
New: no

Prerequisites (list each individually, one course per line, with course number and title)
Current
2980:102 or Equivalent, and 2940:210 or Equivalent.

New
2980:102 and 2940:170, and 2980:335 or Equivalent.

New prerequisites to be checked at time of registration? yes

Corequisites (list each individually, one course per line, with course number and title)
Current
none

New
none

New corequisites to be checked at time of registration? no

Bulletin description
COURSE TITLE: Boundary Surveying
COURSE NUMBER: 2980:228
COURSE CREDIT: 3 credit hours (2-1)
PREREQUISITE: 2980:102 or Equiv., 2940:170 or Equiv., and 2980:355 or Equiv.
COREQUISITE: None

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Analysis of evidence and procedures for boundary location; establishing and/or locating points for boundary, mortgage location, topographic, site plans, and as-built surveys.
Web Components
none
Textbook selection
Elementary Surveying, 10th Ed.; Paul R. Wolf and Russell C. Brinker, 2002

Land Boundary Location Principles, R. B. Buckner
Rationale
2940:210 is being deleted from the program.
2980:355 teaches the Land Development software necessary.
2940:170 is a hand drafting course. These skills are needed for this course.
Syllabus
COURSE RATIONALE: Provides a foundation for boundary surveying that includes the historical development of boundaries and their location, relocation, and/or establishment of property boundary. Will also address the research aspects of land ownership and deed descriptions. This course will become the foundation course for land surveying. Required by the Ohio State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers & Surveyors for professional registration. Required for ABET accreditation.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: To provide the student with the introductory skills used to research, retrace, establish, and verify boundary lines for land surveys.

COURSE OUTLINE:

I. Introduction and Overview of Types and Requirements for Boundary and Land Surveys

II. Research, Field, and Office Requirements for:

A. Boundary Surveys

B. Mortgage Location Surveys

C. Alta Surveys to Include the Development of Site and as-built Surveys

III. Land Boundary Location Principles

IV. Computation and Adjustment of Completed Surveys

V. Preparation of Survey Drawings and Legal Descriptions

Prepared by: Gary A. Schuller, Course Leader

Program Director: Thomas M. Besch

Bibliography
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Instructor’s Course Packet

Black’s Law Dictionary; Henry Campbell Black; West Publishing Company

The Complete Manual of Land Planning and Development; William E. Brewer and Charles P. Alter; Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs - 1988

Site Planning: Environment, Process, and Development; Gene R. Brooks, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ - 1988

Evidence and Procedures for Boundary Location, 2nd Edition; Curtis M. Brown, Walter G. Robillard, and Donald A. Wilson; John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York - 1981

Boundary Control and Legal Principles, 3rd Edition; Curtis M. Brown, Walter G. Robillard, and Donald A. Wilson; John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York - 1986

Land Surveying (Reprint from the 1913 original); F. Hodgman; Buckner Historical Surveying Reprints (CARBEN) - 1976

Ohio Property Boundary Law; T. S. Madson; LSS Publishing Company, Gainesville, Florida - 1984

Restoration of Lost or Obliterated Corners and Subdivision of Sections 1883-1974 (Reprint from the originals); U. S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, CARBEN Surveying Reprints - 1980


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