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Session #2315

Integrating Service Projects into CER-021 Elementary Surveying

F. Andrew Wolfe Union College

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This paper discusses the use of service projects in the Elementary Surveying course at Union College. The use of service projects gives the students a chance to give back to the community while learning surveying, organizational, and time management skills. This year’s success and ease of finding projects has opened the way for the service project to become a permanent part of the surveying experience at Union.

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Community service has become a major part of the education of students at Union College. Most of the community service programs (Big Brothers / Big Sisters, We Care About U - Schenectady to name two) are run as extra curricular activities for the students. This does not guarantee that students will become involved in community service. The impetus behind adding community service to CER-021 Elementary Surveying class was to give students a chance to work on a real job and give back to the community. By finding surveying jobs needed by non- profit groups and local governments an element of community service was added into the course. Since CER-021 is an introductory half course, two hours of lecture - three hours of lab per week, the projects needed to be of a scale that the students could complete the field work and plan within a four week time frame, approximately 18 hours of time. The projects for this year’s class were: site plan of YWCA backyard, Enlarged Erie Canal Lock 23 site plans, and Schenectady Water District buildings site plan.

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Wolfe, F. A. (2000, June), Integrating Service Projects Into Cer 21 Elementary Surveying Paper presented at 2000 Annual Conference, St. Louis, Missouri. 10.18260/1-2--8475