Program Overview

Introduction to the Surveying and Mapping Engineering Undergraduate Training Program

The undergraduate program of Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU) for the specialty of Surveying Engineering aims to cultivate entrepreneurs, engineers, and other professionals in surveying engineering with knowledge of rail transit related fields. The program has a long history, with surveying-related courses printed on the early SWJTU graduation certificate, which is also the oldest existing college graduation certificate in mainland China.

Objectives

This program aims to mentor the development of students with solid knowledge about surveying theories and technologies, encouraging all-around personal development morally, intellectually, physically, and aesthetically. The students are supposed to have international visions, teamwork spirit, organizational and managing abilities, innovation capability, and the ability to learn sequentially in engineering areas, especially in geomatics and Spatial Information Science.

The students should obtain the following objectives five years after graduation:

• Take up an occupation or start a graduate program in surveying and mapping engineering or other related areas.
• Have the practical ability as an engineer and technical expert, solving surveying-related problems in practice and finishing projects and tasks on surveying engineering independently.
• Have the sense of innovative and systematic thinking ability to solve surveying problems in practice, developing innovative surveying approaches when necessary.
• Communicate well with relevant personnel, managing and conducting projects, and promoting professional abilities through lifelong study or participating in continuing education.
• Commit to professional ethics, willing to serve local, national, and global society.

Graduation Requirements

To graduate, students must demonstrate the ability to:

• Apply knowledge of mathematics, science, engineering fundamentals, and professional knowledge to surveying practice and the solution of complex engineering problems in surveying.
• Identify, formulate, review research literature, and analyze complex problems in surveying engineering, reaching substantiated conclusions using first principles of mathematics, natural sciences, and surveying.
• Design solutions for complex surveying engineering problems, designing system components or processes that meet specified needs with consideration for public health and safety, cultural, societal, and environmental considerations.
• Conduct investigations of complex problems using research-based knowledge and research methods, including design of experiments, analysis and interpretation of data, and synthesis of information to provide valid conclusions.
• Create, select, and apply appropriate techniques, resources, and modern engineering and IT tools, including prediction and modeling, to complex surveying engineering activities, understanding the limitations.
• Apply reasoning informed by contextual knowledge of surveying to assess societal, health, safety, legal, and cultural issues and consequent responsibilities relevant to professional surveying engineering practice.
• Understand the impact of professional engineering solutions in societal and environmental contexts, demonstrating knowledge of and need for sustainable development.
• Apply ethical principles, committing to professional ethics and responsibilities and norms of the surveying engineering practice.
• Function effectively as an individual and as a member or leader in diverse teams and in multidisciplinary settings.
• Communicate effectively on complex surveying engineering activities with the engineering community and with society at large.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of engineering and management principles, applying these to one's own work as a member and leader in a team to manage projects in multidisciplinary environments.
• Recognize the need for and have the preparation and ability to engage in independent and lifelong learning in the broadest context of technological change.

Duration and Degree

• Duration: 4 years
• Degree: Bachelor of Engineering

Main Subject and Main Course

• Main Subject: Surveying and Mapping
• Main Course:
  • Digital Topography
  • Error Theory and Foundation of Surveying Adjustment
  • Foundation of Geodesy
  • Principle and Application of Remote Sensing
  • Elementary Photogrammetry
  • Digital Image Processing of Remote Sensing
  • Principles of Geographic Information Systems
  • Principles of Global Navigation Satellite System
  • Foundation of Cartography