Skip to content
Surveyor operating a total station beside a rural highway with a rod person downstream.

CEGR 492 · Chapter 3 — Research Methodology

Field Investigation

Field survey: the horizontal and vertical control every alignment and grade later depends on.

Field Investigation and Site Assessment Studio

Plan safe, permitted, repeatable field work with instruments, accuracy targets and contingency.

Plan safe, permitted, repeatable field work with instruments, accuracy targets and contingency.

Learning objectives

  • Write a field procedure another team could follow
  • Build a safety plan and hazard controls
  • Define measurement accuracy and recording

Engineering guidance

No field visit is planned until the safety plan, access permission and contingency date exist.

FE Civil connection

Surveying

Handbook §12 — Field measurement (placeholder)

  • What closure error is acceptable for a traverse?
  • How is instrument calibration documented?
  • What PPE applies to roadway data collection?

Technical methodology planner

Plan Chapter 3 against the exact equations, standards, data sources and design checks you will execute in Capstone II.

© 2026 Civil Engineering Capstone Studio. All rights reserved.