DRAFT 234 - Civil Drafting

5 Credits

Introduction to mapping and site plan drafting, elementary surveying, boundaries, legal descriptions, contours, profiles, roadways, cuts and fills, plat maps and utilities’ drawings.

FeesCF

Quarters Typically Offered

Designed to Serve This class is designed for students in the Drafting Design program and other interested students.
Active Date 2011-04-20

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 24
Contact Hours: Lecture 55 Lab 0 Field Studies 0 Clinical 0 Independent Studies 0
Total Contact Hours 55
Degree Distributions:
ProfTech Course Yes
Restricted Elective Yes
Course Outline
Week #1 Introduction to location and direction, in relation to longitude and latitude. Students will be introduced to different jurisdiction™s online map systems. Week #2 Discussion of bearings, distances, degrees/minutes/seconds; how to input this information into Autocad; surveyor™s compass, true north, baselines and meridians. Week #3 Students will plot a straight line traverse (the beginning of a site plan.) Introduction to the use of a graphic scale and inclusion of a north arrow on drawings. Week #4 Introduction to legal descriptions and how to draw site plans with these descriptions. Week #5 Townships, ranges, and quarter section maps are reviewed. Week #6 Plotting curves ” students use bearings and radii to construct a parcel outline in Autocad. Week #7 Introduction to contour drawings, elevation points, ridges and valleys. Week #8 Students learn how to interpolate gridded elevation points to construct contour maps, with index and regular contour lines. Week #9 Introduction to surveying tools and how to read them. Week #10 Measuring distance and elevation: using backsight and foresight to establish elevations.

Student Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to construct site plans from legal descriptions or bearings

Students will be able to plot traverse plans, with or without curves.

Students will understand how properties are arranged by township, range, quarter section, etc.

Students will demonstrate knowledge of contour mapping.

Students will be able to read surveying tools and calculate elevation of points based on this information.