TS05F: INNOVATIONS IN SURVEYING EDUCATION [10559]

Commission: 2
Chair: Prof. Rosario Casanova, Uruguay
Rapporteur: Dr. Bolkas Dimitrios, United States

Innovations in Surveying education is always an exciting FIG session in all the events so far. Here, surveying academicians and professionals in education are eager to present their innovations in regard implementing technology in education (like: AI, digital twins, programming, VR etc.) but also a inclusion of trendy topics like ethics in education.

Guiding Questions for Discussions:

• Which are the latest innovations in education using technology?

Yanli Zhang, Daniel Unger and Matthew McBroom (USA):
Visual Traverse: an Open Source Python Program for Traverse Computation (11840)
[abstract] [paper] [handouts]

Ifeanyi Okezie (Nigeria):
Innovation in Surveying Education: a Tale from Two Regions (11843)
[abstract] [paper] [handouts]

Dimitrios Bolkas, Matthew O’Banion, Jeffrey Chiampi and Jordan Laughlin (USA):
Collaborative Virtual Reality for Surveying Education (11844)
[abstract] [paper] [handouts]
This is a peer reviewed paper.

Emmanuel Stefanakis (Canada):
Enhancing Geomatics Engineering Education with Software Engineering Attributes (11954)
[abstract] [paper] [handouts]

Rosario Casanova (Uruguay):
Professional Education in Ethics? (11965)
[abstract] [paper] [handouts]

Ugonna Nkwunonwo, Elijah Ebinne and Ndukwe Chiemelu (Nigeria):
Exploring Professional Rejuvenation for Land Surveying Theory and Praxis from a Critical Management Perspective (11981)
[abstract] [paper] [handouts]

Pietro Grimaldi (Italy):
International Training Summer School by Coifa (12086)
[abstract] [paper] [handouts]

Georgia Giannopoulou and Monika Przybilla (Germany):
Mentoring Measures as Promoter of Career Planning in the Surveying World with a Special Focus on DVW in Germany (12179)
[abstract] [paper] [handouts]

Peta Cox and Fairlie Kate (Australia):
Use of AI in Education and the Surveying Profession (12192)
[abstract] [paper] [handouts]