Contact
Mary Sessom, J.D and Patricia Newman
Program Chairs
Email: mary.sessom@gcccd.edu pat.newman@gcccd.edu
Phone: (619) 660-4362 & (619) 660-4554
Careers
Career Options
Our graduates find employment with a variety of companies. The most common are:
- The California Department of Transportation
and Other State Agencies - Surveying Firms
- Mapping Firms
- County Tax Mappers
Surveying may be necessary for:
- Acreage determination
- Location of boundary lines
- Subdivision of land for inheritance purposes
- Buying or selling land
- Location of environmentally sensitive areas such as wetlands
- Utility easements
- Layout of forest roads
Surveying has been made a lot easier with GPS, total station distance meters, data collectors, desktop computers, computed aided drafting (CAD), and the internet.
It helps to know surveying law and trigonometry.
Surveyors have to deal with following vague deed descriptions, minimal field evidence, lost boundary corners, property line disputes, and acreage discrepancies that have been caused by surveyors who used older surveying instruments. Updated boundary maintenance helps to prevent property line problems with adjoining landowners.
Contact
Mary Sessom, J.D and Patricia Newman
Program Chairs
Email: mary.sessom@gcccd.edu pat.newman@gcccd.edu
Phone: (619) 660-4362 & (619) 660-4554
