Using iPad and 3D Simulation Technologies for Enhanced Student Learning in CM 224 Surveying Lab at North Carolina A&T State University
Publication: Construction Research Congress 2024
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North Carolina A&T State University (NCAT) is the largest historically black university (HBCU) in the United States. CM 224 Surveying Lab is a one-credit laboratory course for sophomores in architectural engineering, civil engineering, construction management, and geomatics. Laboratory sessions of distance measurement, differential and profile leveling, and traverse and topographic surveying using surveying instruments of auto level and total station. The authors were awarded a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning project to use the university-provided iPad and free apps of surveying instrument simulators to enhance students’ pre-class preparation and learning. This paper presents the pre-lab and post-lab survey findings from the pilot study of Spring 2023 with 19 students enrolled in CM224. The survey results showed that the developed course materials have the potential to help the underrepresented minority students to understand the surveying instruments of auto level and total station, and the field procedures of differential leveling, traverse surveying, and topographic surveying.
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Construction Research Congress 2024
Pages: 346 - 355
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