© 2009 Survey Review Ltd 110 DOI 10. 1179/003962609X390030 TEACHING FIELD SURVEYING TO FINAL-YEAR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS: AN EXAMPLE FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA

At Curtin University of Technology, all final-year undergraduate surveying students must take a field-to-finish survey camp as part of their degree programme. This paper outlines the six exercises now set and their educational rationale, including a novel system where a production environment is replicated by setting penalties for late submission of assignments. In addition, some deliberate ‘traps ’ are set to reinforce routine checks of their observations. The approaches and philosophies used here may be of use/interest to other field-surveying educators