The 20th International Course on Engineering Surveying took place at ETH Zürich from 11 to 14 April, 2023.

This was the last event in a series of conferences on Engineering Surveying which dates back to the Optical Distance Measurement Course of 1928. Since 1970, the conference has been organized by the Technical Universities of Munich, Zürich and Graz in a four-year cycle as “International Course on Engineering Surveying”. In order to take into account the rapid development of methods and instruments the course is now usually organized in a shortened rhythm of 3 years since the conference in Zürich in 2004.

The event series, and also the conferece, aims particularly at promoting the exchange between practice and science. Accordingly, we organized a diverse program with practice-oriented and scientific contributions. The course is organized such that it is acknowledged as continuing education of licensed surveyors by the corresponding bodies in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.

Many took

Many took advantage of this opportunity to update themselves, continue their education, get to know colleagues in the field and extend their personal network during the course or the accompanying social program.

The city of Zürich with its mixture of tradition and modernity, as well as the ETH Zürich, one of the world’s leading universities in the field of natural and engineering sciences, offered an ideal setting for the Course on Engineering Surveying.