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Article: Achieving excellence: surveying programs across the nation are dedicated to finding and educating tomorrow's surveyors.
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- June 1, 2006
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"I'm known for being a grade point average wrecker," says Roy Frank, PLS, an assistant professor in the civil and environmental engineering department at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, which offers 27 credits of surveying courses. "Getting an 'A' out of me is very tough. 'A' is excellent, and I don't water down grades at all," he says. Frank believes that demanding a lot from his surveying students is the way to get them to rise to their potential, and he is satisfied his technique is working.
To learn more about what is happening at surveying education programs around the country, POB interviewed a few educators tasked with teaching and training ...