On-line and/or
Video Education for Land Surveyors
Summary -
Surveying Ethics Course
December 2004
The Survey Ethics
course at
The course,
previously SUR 402 – Ethics and Professionalism in Surveying, has been taught
continuously at NMSU since January 1999.
The course was developed under an
agreement with NCEES as a means to give a surveying-specific focus to ethics
education. Materials from the course are
used in the classroom at NMSU and were made available via distance education as
continuing education for practicing surveyors.
The materials have also been provided to other US Surveying programs and
are being used at several other campuses besides NMSU. The course materials cover the reasons for
professional ethics, the basic principles of professional ethics, and advice on
solving ethical dilemmas that surveyors might typically face. The course normally takes about three months
to complete, but we have had students finish in as little as ten days and ask
for and receive extensions of up to a year.
The course consists
of two ethics manuals, one on background material and another on case
studies. The course can be taken over
the Internet or by videotape. We will
soon explore making it available by DVD.
The course consists of several homework problems involving practical
solutions to surveying-specific ethical situations. A sample situation and sample solution are
provided for guidance. Students taking
the Internet version have all the need materials available online. Students taking the videotape version will
have tapes (15 hours), manuals, and homework problems shipped to them. We will need a street address to deliver the
videotapes as they are shipped via UPS. The
cost for the Internet version is $179 and the cost of the videotape version is
$259. There is no longer an application
fee for the course.
Students can enroll
by contacting Cindy Adair at:
phone (505)
646-5375
fax (505)
646-8171
email CynAdair@nmsu.edu
NMSU
Surveying Engineering
We are still
investigating how to handle credit cards.
We will be taking checks only for the time being. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience
this might cause. Checks should be made
out to the Center for Surveying Ethics Studies.
Department of Surveying
Engineering
Survey Ethics Continuing
Education Enrollment Form
Please print
Please sign me up
for:
Survey Ethics Internet version $179 ____
Survey Ethics videotape version $259 ____
Name:
_______________________________________________________________
Address:
______________________________________________________________
Email address:
__________________________________________________________
Shipping address:
_______________________________________________________
City, State, Zip:
_________________________________________________________
Those signing up for
the Internet version need to include their email address.
Those signing up for
the videotape version need to include a street address for UPS shipping.
Please make checks
to: Center for Surveying Ethics Studies.
Mail to:
Center for Surveying
Ethics Studies
c/o NMSU Surveying Engineering