"D" is short for "Delta", where the delta symbol is usually used to indicate the included angle. Since the delta symbol often disappears from the MTEXT curve labels between sessions of CAD, I just gave up on using the symbol and use "D". Maybe I should use "I" instead?
There is a symbol for delta "?ý", hold the Alt key down and type 30
You can also type lesser than "<" and then draw in a curve ")" over that to get an angle symbol
All of the 2019 NGS Geospatial Summit presentations are posted here:
https://geodesy.noaa.gov/geospatial-summit/2019/presentations.shtml
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The older I have become the more I seek out alternative CEU or PDH sources and I am fine with FREE. If someone is offering a FREE PDH then sign me up. I am not trying to beat them up on a price because their price is FREE. So why pay for something if it is FREE. I am not so stupid and prideful to turn my nose up at FREE and something FREE is not beneath my dignity. I occasionally find a manufacturer offering up a FREE pdh on a product they have developed, such as erosion control matting and I will be all over that.
I ran into a recently retired surveyor, he told me one of the best things about being a retired surveyor is that he never has to go to another seminar again. He said he started going decades ago because he was registered in a different state that was early to require continuing ed. Add to that some states will accept different courses and he was going all the time.
He said they have become so redundant he almost couldn't stand to go and now he doesn't have to.?ÿ
At first I (mistakenly) read meditation. I thought that might be a good course for surveyors as well, but mediation is much more likely to be acceptable as CEU to the board.
In Arkansas, we have it figured out:
A.C.A. ?? 17-48-206
Exempt from licensed continuing education requirements a professional surveyor sixty (60) years of age or older with twenty (20) or more years of experience as a practicing professional surveyor.
How does one get a certificate for each video viewed? I would like to utilize this for my ceus
I suggest contacting Erika Little at NGS to find out if certificates are available for watching the recorded versions.
erika.little@noaa.gov
So help me out here, a surveyor who is over the age of 60 has 20 years of experience does not need to keep his/her skills and knowledge of the technology current? Or is the assumption, that at that point in their life they are untrainable?
I am not so sure this is an idea I can get behind. I think we ALL need to be constantly learning and being refreshed in our profession. That said, there are a great deal of less than worthwhile courses out there and requiring me to attend a specific number of them each year is painful.
The mandatory continuing education issue can be argued several different ways, but to exclude someone based on their age or seniority in the profession seems a bit off.
My 2 cents ….
Not at all. It just relieves the older surveyors of the mandate. At the conferences we can spend more time talking to the vendors about the current measurement technology, and the chairs are more comfortable in the lobby than the ones in the class rooms. In fact, the Arkansas Society of Professional Surveyors is currently hosting its Fall Short Course at a lodge in Paris.
https://www.arkansasstateparks.com/parks/mount-magazine-state-park
https://www.arprofessionalsurveyors.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1225826&group=
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NGS will only provide a certificate for CEUs?ÿ if you are registrant for the first time that a presentation is offered and you stay on for the whole session.?ÿ After that they post them all online for anyone to watch or download but don't provide any certificates.?ÿ You might want to look at GEOLEARN --?ÿ https://www.geo-learn.com/ ?ÿ They offer a wide range of topics that have all been reviewed by Texas A&M and provide certification for CEU/PDHs.?ÿ The cost if $49 per 1-hr session which I believe is good for 1 credit.
I'm not in Texas but I applied for a pair of scholarships as a surveying student and my experience was basically completely negative.?ÿ 1.) I didn't have a sob story and ended up losing out to single mothers, kids who's parents died, kids who had a disease, or some other ridiculous criteria beyond anyone's control or 2.) a requirement to win the scholarship was to write a 2 page butt-kissing letter to the person/family/whatever who founded the scholarship program.
Being the naive person that I was I thought being on the dean's list the majority of the time I was in school and having a 3.8 GPA would carry a little bit of weight.?ÿ Silly me.?ÿ It wasn't a total loss though since I did learn a couple valuable lessons (respectively) from "the gift of scholarships":?ÿ Nobody cares to reward people who are good at what they do, because those people are going to be successful anyway; and there's no such thing as a free lunch.
I absolutely 100% disagree with the idea of the Elder statesmen of our profession being exempted from the C.E. requirements simply because they are older.
The only way for exemption would be for the surrender of the license.
If the boards were really interested in making sure everyone was staying current with their surveying skills they'd just make every licsencee take a refresher test every so many years. But I have a feeling there wouldn't be as much money in it. So we're all forced to sit through mostly useless seminars. Probably 1 out of 4 are actually useful.
