Department of Civil Engineering Organized a Two-Day Workshop on “Modern Surveying”. The Workshopwas conducted from 28th to 29th December 2017. The objective of this workshop was to train and upgrade the participants on the advancement in the field of modern Surveying. A total of 104 participants were trained through this Workshop in which 91 students and 4 faculty members registered as internal participants and 7 students along with 1 faculty attended as External Participants from HIET Polytechnic College.
The Chief Guest invited for the Programme was Dr. D.Thirumalaivasan, Professor & Director, Centre for Disaster Mitigation Management. The Inauguration of the Event began with the welcome address given by the Convener of the Event, Dr.V.Vandhana Devi, HoD-Civil Engineering followed by which the presidential address was delivered by The Principal, Dr.G.Prabhakaran and Dr. Sumathi Poobal, Vice Principal, felicitated the event and the department.
The first day of the workshop had three sessions handled by three eminent guest speakers. The first session of the day was addressed by Dr.D.Thirumalaivasan, who took over the session with interesting and informative recent advancements and techniques happening in the field of surveying and about the best equipment used in extreme conditions.
The Second session was delivered by the guest speaker Prof. E. Velappan, Associate Professor, Institute of Remote Sensing, Anna University and gave his informative lecture on the significance of Total station and explained in detail the functions involved in angle, distance and co-ordinate measurements and how the data processing is done and also explained the features and the types of total station used in the field in recent times.
The third and last session of the day was taken over by Dr.K.Yogeswari, Associate Professor, B.S.Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology. The topic for the session was on Hydrographic surveying, its methods and equipment used in this type of surveying along with the importance of nautical charting were explained in detailed.
The second day of the workshop (29.12.17) had two sessions in the morning which was followed by a demonstration session with leading experts on Total station. The key note speaker for the first session, Mr.D.Ragavan, Head of operations, Indian Geo informatics Centre gave his informative lecture on case studies in differential global positioning system and made the participants to understand the real ways in which this type of positioning system is practically used.
The second session of the day was led by Dr.K.Srinivasaraju, Associate Professor, Institute of Remote sensing, he enlightened the participants in this session about the Global Positioning System, tools used in GPS and the history behind the satellites that each country owns for their military purposes made this session more interesting. Detailed explanation on the features, principles, characteristics with relevant examples were also given.
A Demonstration session with hands on training was given by the experts from Amil Limited on Total Station for all the participants. Experts explained the uses, features and operation of a Total Station and then the participants were taken to the field for a practical hands on training with the instrument. This oppurtunity created a great chance for every participant to experience, learn and develop their skill in using a total Station in a Practical Environment.