Camp Jungai

For over 30 years RMIT second and third year Surveying students have travelled to the Rubicon Valley in regional Victoria to gain intensive practical experience. The field camps allow students to carry out a range projects in cadastral, topographic, geodetic and engineering surveys.

This video features several people talking to camera interspersed with footage of students surveying activities in the countryside and in classrooms. Upbeat music plays throughout.

Duration: 2:06

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Camp Jungai
For over 30 years RMIT second and third year Surveying students have travelled to the Rubicon Valley in regional Victoria to gain intensive practical experience.
The field camps allow students to carry out a range of projects in Cadastral, Topographic, Geodetic and Engineering surveys.

Dr David Mitchell [School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences, RMIT University]: We’re up here on a survey camp to take our students to expose them to the field aspects and office aspects in a contained environment in a rural area.

Richard Simpson [Director of Carson Simpson (Land Surveyors)]:Well the students will do a number of projects some of them will be sort of engineering type surveys some of them will be topographic and mapping surveys, some of them are GPS or geodetic work.

Dr David Mitchell: The camps are great for the students because they get an intensive hands-on period. It’s quite different to being in lectures and doing half day projects or full day projects they can tackle a large project and they can run through that and get exposed to all the aspects of it.? ?

James McLellan [Bachelor of Applied Science (Surveying) RMIT University]: When we do a lot of practical work for uni we’re in around town, around Northcote, so a completely different situation when you’re out standing around cows in the paddocks and that sort of thing.

Sarah Louis [Bachelor of Applied Science (Geomatics) RMIT University]: I think the variety of work is really interesting, you get to do something different every day you travel a lot you get to work outside. It’s a very challenging job.

Richard Simpson: So people that go through the Geospatial Science course at RMIT may go and work for a land surveying company, they may go and work for the CFA and do immediate response mapping and emergency mapping, they can go and work in cartographic work and work for Lonely Planet or mapping Australia or someone.

Sarah Louis: The industry is just so broad, especially with the geomatics degree you can do anything, you can apply it to anything almost so I’ve got a job with a surveying company next year so I’ll give that a go.

Richard Simpson: Sometimes I think people leave their degree course, theoretically, very well trained but the hands on part, how are you going to apply that the application in day to day work may be lessened.

A course such as this has a camp and an opportunity such as this means that getting a real hands experience they’re actually working with an industry representative so they’re getting interaction at a professional level not just an academic level and their hands on practical skills mean when they come to an office situation, come to a field work situation in a real company, they know what we’re talking about.

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