Iowa Land Surveyors Professional Development Courses

Explore the ethics of engineering and land surveying, including different aspects of the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) as well as the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) Code of Ethics. 

This course covers the topics of adverse possession and prescriptive easements.  Both are legally-established means in which a party may acquire either legal title, or the deeded privilege, to use land belonging to another party without the expressed consent of that owner. Surveyors who perform boundary retracement surveys must be familiar with this legal doctrine; these types of boundary surveys are often muddled by the existence of an adverse possession or prescriptive easement situation. 

Examine legal descriptions that are written on warranties and deeds.

This course is designed to provide an overview of how easements are used and how they affect the land surveyor. The course will cover types of easements and how to create easements at well as how easements are terminated. Throughout the course various case studies will be discussed, which will give the participant an example of how easements are used.

This course will teach the student how to determine when it is necessary to conduct nighttime surveying, how to plan for the activity, and how to do it safely and efficiently. 

Explore the ethics of engineering and land surveying, including different aspects of the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) as well as the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) Code of Ethics.

This course covers the topics of adverse possession and prescriptive easements.  Both are legally-established means in which a party may acquire either legal title, or the deeded privilege, to use land belonging to another party without the expressed consent of that owner. Surveyors who perform boundary retracement surveys must be familiar with this legal doctrine; these types of boundary surveys are often muddled by the existence of an adverse possession or prescriptive easement situation. 

This course is designed to fulfill professional development requirements for land surveyors. The course opens with definitions of terms related to water rights and their importance to land surveyors. Then it focuses on tidal and non-tidal boundaries and the significant difference between the two. Finally, the course informs us of shorelines, their changes over time, and how a land surveyor can determine a historic shoreline. McKissock has met the standards and requirements of the Registered Continuing Education Program. Credit earned on completion of this program will be reported to RCEP, provider #127505.

This course is designed to provide an overview of how easements are used and how they affect the land surveyor. The course will cover types of easements and how to create easements as well as how easements are terminated. Throughout the course various case studies will be discussed, which will give the participant an example of how easements are used.

This course will teach the student how to determine when it is necessary to conduct nighttime surveying, how to plan for the activity, and how to do it safely and efficiently.