The Same Brinker Who Wrote Surveying Textbooks ?
Interesting. Thanks for the link.
This is for Tom Adams and mscanlon.
I was at D.I.T in 1982 as well. The teachers were Larry and Terry for the basic portion and Mike for advanced. I had Tom Au, Bruce Bullard, Charlie Moore, Jon Christensen in my class to name a few. We played hacky sac religiously every spare minute. What great memories. I stayed in Denver working survey/engineering until 1990 then relocated to Chicago and got into private land development. My survey skill carried me a long way and I still use it in my current positions for development. I hope to return to the mountains someday.
Sam McLean
smc0366@sbcglobal.net?ÿ
And to continue the trip into the way-back machine:
Mike Scanlon is still in Groton, CT.?ÿ See?ÿ https://www.loureiro.com/about-us/leadership/
As a newly-minted Colorado PLS, I worked with him and John Stock at DiCesare-Bentley Engineers (in Connecticut) as a project surveyor in 1989-1991.?ÿ I found the metes & bounds system to be quite a change from the PLSS and thoroughly enjoyed that experience.
Both of those men have contributed greatly to the surveyong profession and I learned a lot from both of them as my supervisors.
I graduated from DIT in 1992 long before it became Westwood.
The?ÿ DIT surveying program was originally the Brinker School of Surveying.
From what I read Westwood did a lot of massive expansion and had campuses throughout the U.S. and I recall they were sued for some shady stuff with admissions and tuition.
When DIT ran the survey program it was pretty good, expensive as heck but pretty good,?ÿ however I heard that Westwood destroyed it.
Westwood College has an AS Surveying program at it's Denver North Campus.
However it is not part of it's School of Technology. Instead it is part of the Industrial Services School along with Automotive Technology.
http://www.westwood.edu/programs/school-of-industrial-services/surveying-degree
Paul in PA
?ÿIndustrial services seems like an odd school to put surveying in, but I wouldn't see it as a slap in the face to the profession because these days AS degrees are usually aimed at training technicians, not educating professional surveyors. I do see it as a slap in the phase when programs geared towards producing professional surveyors are put in schools of technology, engineering technology, applied science, ect...
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I took a Saturday class with Dexter Brinker just on how to calculate spiral curves.?ÿ As someone else previously said, he was brilliant.?ÿ I remember one time during a local?ÿsurveying Olympics competition, we had to guess the height of a far off peak (very common exercise in Colorado).?ÿ Dexter simply walks up and holds out a pencil in his outstretched arm towards?ÿthe peak, estimated the distance to the peak knowing the length of the pencil, did a quick trig calc, and won the completion by a large margin.?ÿ The rest of us just shook our heads.
I remember Mike Scanlon too!?ÿ He was a very enthusiastic presenter and taught me a lot about the HP-41 including shortcut calcs which I used throughout my entire career.?ÿ I still have his book on those somewhere.?ÿ I knew he went back to Connecticut in private practice, glad to hear he is still doing well.?ÿ
There was also a surveyor named Mike that taught the surveying classes at Red Rocks Community College at that same time.?ÿ He had a long ponytail and knew his stuff.?ÿ I always enjoyed his classes too.
