Certificate with Financial Aid Eligibility
Engineering and Building Arts Department
Field Survey Technician
FSTECH-CT
Effective Beginning Catalog Term: Fall 2022 (610).
The requirements shown below are valid beginning Fall 2022 (610), and may not reflect degree requirements for current students. Current students should visit My SPC and view My Learning Plan to see specific degree requirements for their effective term.
Program Leadership Information
Dr. Sidney Martin
Program Director
727-394-6203
Dr. Natavia Middleton
Dean
Program Summary
The purpose of this Field Survey Technician Certificate program is to prepare students for employment as surveyors, civil engineering technicians, or surveyor helpers or to provide supplemental training for persons previously or currently employed in these occupations.
This program offers a sequence of courses that provides coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in the Architecture and Construction career cluster; provides technical skill proficiency, and includes competency-based applied learning that contributes to the academic knowledge, higher-order reasoning and problem-solving skills, work attitudes, general employability skills, technical skills, and occupation-specific skills, and knowledge of all aspects of the Architecture and Construction career cluster.
The content includes but is not limited to surveying, highway design, soils and foundations, photogrammetry, asphalt design, drainage and geology, concrete design, orientation to utilities, structural design, estimating, drafting, legal and ethical considerations, employability skills, leadership, and human relations skills, health and safety, and support general education. Computer use is essential. Technical report writing, record keeping, and mathematical computations are important aspects of this occupation.
Florida CIP Code
0715020102 - Field Survey Technician (CCC )
Federal CIP Code
15.0201 - Civil Engineering Technologies/Technicians.
Job Related Opportunities
Aerotriangulation Specialist, Engineering Technician, Mapping Technician, Survey Technician.
Graduation Rules
Minimum grade of "C" in all courses.
MAJOR CORE COURSES
3 credits from approved General Education Mathematics coursework (any MAC, MAP, MAS, MGF, MTG, or STA prefix)
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