April 29, 2007
- Free Survey and Engineering Courses at MIT
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has complete on line access of their entire curriculum with some 1550 courses ready for download and use. (…)
April 23, 2007
- 2007 Surveyors CEU Cruise - Day 7
Cruise Day 7 (Friday March 02, 2007)
Today was the highlight of the cruise as far as I was concerned. We were in port in Nassau, Bahamas. I had a CEU class scheduled from 8:00 t0 10:00 AM, our scheduled time for arrival in Nassau. (…)
April 13, 2007
- 2007 Surveyors CEU Cruise - Day 6
Cruise Day 6 (Thursday March 01, 2007)
Today is a day at sea, meaning that the entire day was available for continuing education classes. I chose to attend the class on "Organizing Your CAD Files" conducted by Larry Phipps, in the morning session, and "Horizontal Curves", taught by Reynold Davenport in the afternoon session. (…)
- 2007 Surveyors CEU Cruise - Day 5
Cruise Day 5 (Wednesday February 28, 2007)
Day 5 is also a port day, with the ship docked in Costa Maya, Mexico. As on Day 4, we would have class from 5:30 until 7:30 PM, before dinner. (…)
April 12, 2007
- 2007 Surveyors CEU Cruise - Day 4
Cruise Day 4 (Tuesday February 27, 2007)
Day 4 is a port day, with the ship docked in Belize. (…)
March 27, 2007
- 2007 Surveyors CEU Cruise - Day 2
Cruise Day 2 (Sunday February 25, 2007)
Classes began at 8:00 AM in three locations on the ship. I had selected "FEMA for Land Surveyors" for my first class. (…)
March 26, 2007
- The 2007 Surveyors CEU Cruise is History
Cruise Day 1 (Saturday February 24, 2007)
The CEU Cruise sponsored by Land Surveyors Workshop is history. (…)
November 6, 2006
- Deadline for the Surveyor's CEU Cruise
Yes, the deadline is near. In fact it is today. (…)
September 6, 2006
- Continuing Education Cruise - Revisited
Previously, I wrote about taking a Western Caribbean cruise aboard the Carnival Glory in order to get my continuing education credits for my 2008 license renewal as a Registered Land Surveyor in Indiana. (…)
August 9, 2006
- Relative Positional Accuracy - A Discussion
The other day I wrote about Relative Positional Accuracy (RPA) discussions at the Transit Seminars "Procrastinators Special", where a rather bizarre methodology was presented. (…)
July 26, 2006
- Return from CEU Hell
I just got back from a round trip to Indianapolis to get the 24 CEU's required for renewal of my Indiana license. (…)
June 24, 2006
- Cruise to Continuing Education
The previous post about continuing education induced me to do some research on the possibility of getting continuing education in any other way besides driving north in the middle of winter to get credits. (…)
June 20, 2006
- Procrastination and Continuing Education
If you have been a reader of this site, you probably know some of my views on continuing education. Indiana's policy was very restrictive. (…)
