Technical Drawing, Cartography and Geographic Information System
Objectives
The course of Technical Design, Cartography and GIS aims to provide and train students with essential tools for the practice of engineering. The Technical Drawing component is essential for engineering design disciplines, while the Cartography and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) components are essential for projects where spatial information is crucial, such as environmental impact studies.
It is an eminently practical course using CAD tools and software to support Technical Design and ArcGIS to support the GIS component.
General characterization
Code
12611
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Maria Teresa Calvão Rodrigues, Paulo Alexandre Marques Diogo
Hours
Weekly - 4
Total - 56
Teaching language
Português
Prerequisites
not applied
Bibliography
Teaching method
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This course relies on hands-on techniques aiming to turn the student into an active agent in the learning process. He/she is encouraged to solve and explore exercises with a growing level of difficulty, questioning aspects required to accomplish the exercises. In this way the student integrates gradually and in a phased way the supplied and learned materials, consolidating acquired knowledge and creating competences in its use, tutorially supported by the faculty. In CAD and GIS components, the student develops practical work in class in project format, guided by the teacher. |
Evaluation method
The course unit assessment includes:
1 – ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENT:
Attendance is granted if the student participates in at least two-thirds of the theoretical-practical classes (except for working students or those who have already obtained attendance in a previous year), submits all class assignments, and achieves a weighted average score of at least 9.5 out of 20 in the two practical assignments: CAD (TRB1) and GIS (TRB2), which are graded from 0 to 20.
For the attendance requirement, the weighted average of the practical assignments is calculated as follows:
TRB1 × 0.40 + TRB2 × 0.60
Attendance is a prerequisite for passing the course.
2 – TEST COMPONENT:
A test will be conducted during the semester, covering Technical Drawing, Cartography, and GIS, accounting for 35% of the final grade.
To pass the course unit, the test score must be at least 9.5 out of 20.
The FINAL GRADE is calculated as follows:
TEST × 0.35 + CAD × 0.25 + GIS × 0.40
3 – ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Students who obtain attendance are eligible for the Resit Exam if:
- They did not take the Test,
- Their Test score was below 9.5, or
- They wish to improve their Test score.
In case (3), students must register for the grade improvement exam.
The Exam holds the same weight as the Test in the final grade calculation (35% of the course unit grade). The exam will cover the same content as the Test.
Subject matter
1. Technical Design: Descriptive Geometry Objectives. Orthogonal projections. Portuguese and International Standards. Scales and development of projected parts. Reduce / enlarge and convert scales. Drawing views. Architectural plans: floor plans, elevation and cross sections. CAD concepts and drawing. Essential cad commands, tools and procedures. Terrain profiles, landfill project, Viewports, paper space and model space.
2. Cartography. Classification of maps. Thematic maps. Scales, planimetric and altimetric details, natural forms of relief. Profiles. Slope. Flow and runoff. Delimitation of drainage basins. Geodesy and geographic coordinate systems. Datum and Geodetic Network: definition and existing systems. Projections. Projection systems. Coordinate systems.
3. Science and Geographic Information Systems (GI). GI science. GIS data models: raster, vectorial and digital terrain models. Map algebra and applications to environmental engineering. Interpolation methods. Geostatistics: analysis of variograms and kriging. Applications in ArcGIS. New SIG solutions: drones and cloud-based.