Survey camp

Survey camp is a traditional component of civil engineering training, where students do fieldwork to learn about surveying and related practices, such as developing maps.

[4] Cornell University started requiring summer survey camp for civil engineering students in the 1870s and conducted it until the early 1960s.

[9] The University of Toronto camp was established in 1919-1920 and has been updated to include water quality sampling, among other topics.

It can include project-based learning to support development of communication and problem-solving skills.

[1] The students use these programs to take data collected from the field to develop topographic maps of the particular area.