3.2. Report of the Activities of the College for Surveying and Land Managemenmt (FFFK) of the University of Forestry and Timber Industry, Székesfehérvár

FFFK is the only college in the country where engineers of both surveying and land management are trained.
The frames of training, content of Syllabi are determined by the programmes of the individual subjects. Basic training for regular students takes six semesters (3 years). Term time of the semesters lasts 13-14 weeks, while weekly number of classes averages 30.
Natural and social sciences, as well as part of the basics of surveying are taught in the 1st and 2nd semesters, professional surveying and land management training is held in the 3rd and 4th semesters together for students of both surveying and land management, while the two groups part in the 5th semester.

Compared to the '80s in 1995 professional (surveying & land management) subjects have more weight in the new syllabus, but the major proportions remained unchanged. More stress is given to practical training, as well as to the interpretation of research results.

Total number of classes in the 3-year period is 3228. The proportion of theoretical and practical classes are 35-36 vs. 64-65 % respectively.
Following the successful final examination graduates are given certificates of B.Sc. on land management or B.Sc. on land administration. They qualify them for surveying positions of various government or private jobs.
Training is overwhelmingly regular, with a very small number of corresponding students.

The College has the following departments:

• Natural and Social Sciences,
• Geodesy,
• Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing,
• Surveying and Land Management,
• GIS & LIS,
• Foreign Languages.

Department of Surveying and Land Management:

• analysis and development of digital mapping of both earlier cadastral maps and new surveyings,
• partition of land by value (connected to the recent privatization of lands),
• textbooks on land management, history of land management in Hungary.

• New softwares based on recent technical acquisitions (Digital Analytical Plotter of ISM Corp.): plane-Anblock block adjustment,
• analytical evaluation of computer-assisted stereo-comparators etc.

• The 30-year study of recent vertical crustal movements of the Carpatho-Balkans Area have produced several maps of the region (1971, 1979, 1985) with the most recent being the deduction of horizontal gradients of velocities of recent vertical movements (1991). New studies include the monitoring of small fault lines with GPS technology.

• The department was established in 1994. Developments are based on ARC/INFO GI software. Tests were carried out on the application of pcTINArc system in connection with digital terrain modelling. Co-operation works with places of geographic research are intensive both in Hungary (G. Res. Institute of the Academy of Sc. Budapest; Szeged University) and abroad (Germany: University of Trier).
  The Core Curriculum of the National Centre for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA, USA) have been translated into Hungarian. The 4-volume textbook forms the basic teaching material at the department.

Major effort was put into the training of surveying technicians (a secondary qualification obtainable in earlier times) for production engineers. Some 1,000 students have obtained their higher certificates in 4 years. Among other courses the one also for surveying technicians and qualifying as land management technicians is also popular.

István JOÓ
College for Surveying and Land Management,
University of Forestry and Timber Industry,
Székesfehérvár

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