Liu, Yanfang 
  
The University Program to foster Surveying 
& Mapping Professionals with Creativity 
74 Liu Yanfang Liu Yaolin ShiZhenghua 
| (Wuhan Technical University of Surveying & Mapping, Wuhan, 430079, P.R.China) 
| Yfliu @ wtusm. edu. Cn 
Key Words: University Program, Program Characteristics, Curriculum, 
Extracurricular Activity 
Abstract: 
This paper specifically focuses on the fundamental 4-year undergraduate 
program. It will give you a general introduction to the development of the program. It 
will also discuss the objective, characteristics, curricula and extracurricular activities 
| of the program. 
1.A General Introduction to the Development of the Program. 
Since 1956, the undergraduate program in our university for surveying & 
mapping has been working as 4 different programs with quite different fixed 
objectives, namely Geodesy Engineering Surveying, Photogrammetry & Remote 
Sensing, and Cartography & GIS. This is based on the fine technological divisions of 
| labor in surveying & mapping. It allows cartographers or surveyors not to know 
| photogrammetry very well and vice versa. The program for Geodesy does not have 
much more courses about cartography. The program of Engineering Surveying mainly 
concerns topographic analysis, construction of control network and construction 
layout, deformation monitoring and disaster analysis & prediction within the whole 
engineering construction process. The program of Geodesy mostly deals with the 
shape and size of the earth, the gravity field model, geodynamics procedure, land 
control points and the position information and physical information of moving 
objects on the land, in the ocean and space. The program of photogrammetry & 
Remote Sensing is mainly concentrated on acquiring image information by 
untouching sensor, and doing image processing. And the one of Cartography & GIS 
lays stress on systematically using all kinds of geoinformation to compile and design 
various maps and Geography Information System, and their applications. 
But with the development of science and technology, especially information 
technology based on computer technique, science and technology of surveying & 
mapping are coming to synthesize and integrate at a higher level. They can be briefly 
described as those of information obtaining, information processing and analyzing, 
information representing and information application. The courses of these 4 
programs are mixed and overlapped. And the graduates are required to be able to deal 
with all these things throughout the whole process of data obtaining, processing, 
analyzing, representing and application. 
So the undergraduate program is reformed this year based on the reorganization 
of the courses to cultivate the general professionals of integrated knowledge of 
surveying & mapping, under the guidance of the newly integrated specialty - 
surveying & Mapping Engineering as is required by China National Ministry of 
Education. 
  
International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Vol. XXXIII, Part B6. Amsterdam 2000. 211