CET 265 - Land Surveying

1. Evaluate land descriptions     
   1. Prepare land descriptions
   2. Interpret existing land descriptions
2. Analyze random error as applied to land surveying
   1. Explain central tendency
   2. Explain measures of variability
   3. Study normal distribution
   4. Calculate standard errors
   5. Calculate root mean square errors
3. Apply ALTA surveys and standards
   1. Explain the purpose of the ALTA standards
   2. Explain survey standards and standard of care
   3. Record research
   4. Conduct ALTA required fieldwork
   5. Prepare ALTA plats and certifications
4. Examine Iowa state laws relating to the practice of land surveying
   1. Summarize boundary location, measurements and monumentation
   2. Prepare plats of survey
   3. Conduct retracement surveys
   4. Record and document data
   5. Utilize Iowa plane coordinate system
5. Explain state and local laws relating to land subdivisions
   1. Give examples of subdivision plats and attachments
   2. Make sense of “review and approval” by governing bodies
   3. Examine auditor’s plats and attachments
   4. Evaluate dedications, vacations and recording
6. Examine surveying boundary law     
   1. Make use of Federal, State and case laws
   2. Make use of land titles, deeds and transfers
   3. Make sense of simultaneous and sequential conveyances
   4. Make use of unwritten land rights
   5. Make use of Easements
   6. Make use of controlling elements of boundary locations
   7. Compute proportionate measurements
   8. Make sense of Water boundaries
7. Discuss the Public Land Survey System
   1. Examine initial land ordinance and amendments
   2. Review early written survey instructions and GLO Manual
   3. Use rules for restoration of lost and obliterated corners
   4. Use general rules for corner restoration
   5. Utilize methods of proportionate measurements
   6. Evaluate subdivision of sections
8. Discuss the survey profession and surveyor ethics
   1. Make sense of “Responsibility to the public”
   2. Defend “Responsibility to the profession”
   3. Determine competency for assignments
   4. Avoid conflicts of interest
   5. Evaluate unethical or illegal conduct