Structure and significance of fieldwork courses in transformed surveying education
Wiegel, Josef and Otakar Svabensky
Czech Republic joined the Bologna Process which started the most radical reform of european higher education in recent time. It caused transformation of many university study programmes. Brno University of Technology (BUT) together with other Czech technical universities offering the higher surveying education has recently modified the curricula. Part of the curricula are the fieldwork courses which play an irreplaceable role also in contemporary conception of transformed studies. The important aim of a fieldwork course is to train the students in the use of classical and current surveying equipment. Intensive weekly teaching blocks are quite different from hourly term practices. Students have to adopt the basic phases of a practical project feasibility study, planning, implementation and completion together with consideration of resources involved. Practical surveying works develop the ability of students to analyse, interpret and apply survey data. In the paper besides short historical overview of the development of higher technical education in the Czech countries also the aspects concerning the fieldwork courses, e.g. team work, basics of project management, solution complexity, technological aspects, employment of modern educational trends (web, e-learning), relationship with research projects, cooperation with commerce, international cooperation possibilities, are discussed. The principles mentioned were applied by transformation of the fieldwork courses curricula in bachelor and master study programmes of Geodesy and Cartography at BUT, Faculty of Civil Engineering.
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