Northwest Chapter Fall Seminar 2023.pdf <-- Click here if you prefer to print registration form and mail a check.
Program schedule:
8:00-9:00 Registration / coffee and rolls
9:00-10:00 Session 1: Boundary Re-establishment Case Studies
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:00 Session 1 continued
(Session 1 Total - Category 3 – 4.0 PDH)
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:00 Session 1 continued
12:00-12:30 Lunch
12:30-1:20 Session 1 continued
1:20-1:35 Break
1:35-2:25 Session 2: The Dilemma of Ethics?
2:25-2:40 Break
2:40-3:30 Session 2 continued
(Session 2 Total - Category 2 – 2.0 PDH)
6.0 PDH’s total
Certificate of Attendance will be emailed to everyone the week after the seminar.
Registrations at the door will be accepted, however we encourage pre-registration to determine quantity for lunch.
Speaker Bio:
Jerry Mahun is a twice-retired (and working toward a third) surveying educator. His career started at UW-Platteville in 1979, then progressed through Purdue, Penn State University, and finally Madison Area Technical College after which he retired for the first time. Only able to stay retired for one year, he then taught part-time once again at UW-Platteville for six years before retiring a second time. Since then, he has been working with NLCPrep.com as a Content Specialist for licensing exam review courses, consults with CSTLearn.com, and is an occasional Mentoring Mondays presenter.
In addition to teaching Jerry has worked for the BLM, NGS, WisDOT, and done consulting. He has presented diverse surveying workshops and seminars to a variety of different audiences since 1984. He maintains an Open Access Surveying Library at jerrymahun.com as a free surveying education resource.
Jerry is a Wisconsin Professional Surveyor, and a member of the Wisconsin Society of Land Surveyors having served as a Director and on a number of its committees. He is a recipient of the 2019 NSPS Earle J. Fennell Award .
Course Descriptions:
Boundary Re-establishment Case Studies (Category 3 – 4.0 PDHs)
This session will begin with a brief overview of resurvey principles. Then attendees will be broken into small discussion teams. Beginning with the same initial boundary and physical evidence situation, each team will be given a Case Study which differs slightly in subsequent parcel creation. The teams' task will be to determine how the evidence affects boundary re-establishment for their particular case. Each team will present their case conditions, evaluation, and conclusions.
The Dilemma of Ethics? (Category 2 – 2.0 PDHs)
Many ethics presentations discuss different ethical philosophies or concentrate on ethics codes adopted by professional organizations. This presentation takes a different approach: it identifies the elements that make up ethics, development and evolution of personal ethics, ethical interaction with the legal environment, and if personal and professional ethics can conflict. Attendees will be divided into small groups and given a set of ethical situations to discuss. Resolutions for the same case studies from different groups will be compared and contrasted.
