PLSO May June 2019

14 Vol. 42, No. 3 The Oregon Surveyor | Featured Article Chapter to come out for an Industry Day with their Residential Construction class, which I wrote about in the November/ December 2017 Oregon Surveyor . The in- teractions I had that day with the program and students had me hooked and made me realize that CTE offers enormous po- tential to the surveying profession. From that first Industry Day alone, four students who had never heard of surveying start- ed asking serious questions about how to pursue it. What happened that day has stuck with me and made me realize this is something that we, as land survey- ors, need to leverage as much as we can; the opportunity is too good to pass up. In the fall of 2018, the Oregon Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) Engineering Automation Section and CTEC partnered to offer a project-based learning oppor- tunity to CTEC students in the Drone & Robotics program. ODOT created a fic- tional project on a 20-acre site where mapping for engineering design of a new maintenance facility was needed. Drone & Robotics students played the role of an aerial mapping and engineering firm, and The interactions I had that day with the program and students had me hooked and made me realize that CTE offers enormous potential to the surveying profession. From that first Industry Day alone, four students who had never heard of surveying started asking serious questions about how to pursue it. What happened that day has stuck with me and made me realize this is something that we, as land surveyors, need to leverage as much as we can; the opportunity is too good to pass up. CTEC Students learning about surveying – photo courtesy of the Oregon Department of Transportation