STUDENTS PARTICIPATION

Under ten days of survey camp almost all the students participated in all activities of the related survey. Except two, all the students of the college took participated in the camp. All the students were divided into nine groups with four students each in eight groups and one group having five members. From morning to the late night all the students works hard and fulfill all their activities, the students teachers correlations were also very good such that there is not any problems faced by the students. So for the ten days of the survey camp all the students of batch 2002 civil participated.

NECESSITY OF SURVEY CAMP

The preliminary work of every engineering project such as water supply scheme, highway, irrigation, bridges, building, hydropower etc. needs survey of the site before planning and estimation. The necessity of the survey camp was to train the students about various technical difficulties encountered at a survey site and to help them to develop a professional attitude in tackling them. The survey camp is necessity to promote all the basic knowledge of different surveying techniques and to compute and manipulate the observed data in the required accuracy and present it in diagrammatic and tabular form in order to understand by the other engineers easily and fastly.

The necessity of the survey camp can be understood from the way it has managed to clear the students to numerous doubts about the various fundamental principles. It has helped us to understand better the principles we had already known, viz, “working from whole to part” principle and it has also made aware to us with new ideas like “the nature of river and its topographical feature.”

We can say that no one becomes a good surveyor unless he/she has successfully completed the survey camp course. Hence it’s of great importance for all the civil engineering students.

OBJECTIVES OF SURVEY CAMP

The main objective of the survey camp is to provide knowledge of practical implementation of different survey works. The object of surveying is preparation of plan and topographical maps of area. Surveying is the first step for execution of any project.

Following are the some of the objectives of the survey camp:

a.     To give students an opportunity to improve theoretical and practical knowledge in engineering surveying under actual field conditions.

b.     To conduct topographical survey and prepare topographical map of the area as per given technical specifications.

c.      To produce high level technical manpower capable of undertaking works in surveying field.

d.     To develop self-confidence so that he/she can do work independently by solving field problems during survey works.

e.      To fix the minor traverse for detailing.

f.       To transfer the elevations of the known points of unknown points.

g.     Selection of the major control points in working field.

h.     Selection of safe and suitable alignment for roads.

i.       Selection of safe bridge location.

j.       Selection of the major control points in working field.

k.     To familiarize in handling different survey instruments.

l.       To be familiar with the team work as surveying is not a single person work

INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE CAMP

In this camp, the students are given a time limit as in the field. Hence the students not only have to work sincerely and carefully but also be quick and efficient to complete the assigned work in designed time with required accuracy. Thus the students built up the technical and analytical skill to handle the job to required specification. Students encountered many unexpected field problems and learn to solve it efficiently in the field. So this survey camp eliminates any confusion in students’ mind and helps to built up self- confidence to compete as professional engineer in the future.

As per the requirements laid out in the syllabus of Pokhara University, Nepal Engineering College offers the survey camp for third year civil students. This report details the works performed by group I. It briefly describes the following terms:

1. General information about the necessity and objective of the survey camping and some technical calculation to meet desired accuracy.

2. Conduction of work in the fields in sequential order and idea about computation of data from field observation.

3. Problems we had faced and our approach to overcome it.

4. The out come of this ten days camp works are as follows:

a. Topographical map of area of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA).

b. Topographical map of bridge site over Karmanasa Khola with profile of river and cross section at every 15m interval.

c. A fly leveling from provided BM near the Tilkot

 INTRODUCTION

Surveying is the art of determining the relative positions of points on, above or beneath the surface of the earth by means of direct or indirect measurements of distance, direction and elevation. It also includes the art of establishing points by predetermined angular and linear measurements. It is the most important subject matter before and during all Engineering works like Civil Engineering works such designing and construction of highways, water supply systems, irrigation projects, buildings etc.

The main objectives of surveying courses allocated for civil engineering students is to promote them the basic knowledge of different surveying techniques relevant to civil engineering works in their professional practice. After completion of all surveying courses including ten days survey camp work organized by the Department of Survey, “Survey Instruction Committee” of NEPAL Engineering COLLEGE for better enhancement to students to use all surveying technique covered in lecture classes. The B.E. third year students of 2002 batch of about 40 students were on ten days survey camp during l4 April to 23rd April at NEA training center. The survey camp was taken as a part of course of four-year civil engineering study.

RAINFALL CLIMATE AND VEGETATION

Kharipati is quite windy as it lies at little bit higher altitude than Kathrnandu. But other climatic conditions are moderate and similar as that of Kathmandu. The average temperature during summer and winter are 25° C and 150 C respectively. According to central bureau of statistics, the annual temperature variation recorded is 350 C maximum and 40 C minimum. Alike in Kathmandu the rainfall is more in summer and less in winter.

As the climatic and environmental conditions of Kharipati is moderate and soil is good for cultivation. It is rich in green vegetation and cultivation. The main crops people adopt are rice, wheat, mustard, maize, pine etc. Beside these many orchards and small forests are seen on the area.

 TOPOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY

Kharipati is at little bit higher altitude then Kathmandu valley at Bhaktapur district. The site has undulation ground suitable for our camp. Around the sites are the cultivated lands. The lands in this area are undulated and hilly. The geological structure is in good conditions, so there are no any geological disasters and eruptions. Soil types found are good for cultivation. So large area is used for cultivation. Thus as a whole the geologic as well as topographical conditions of Bageswori, VDC is good.