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Chris Tomko, PE, PS and senior project manager for R.E. Warner & Associates Inc., didn’t set out to become a surveyor. His exposure to the profession came through his pursuit of a degree and career in civil engineering.
It is well known within the profession that the world is facing a shortage of surveyors, with plenty close to retirement age and not enough young people joining. What can be done?
The day-to-day problems of surveyors would be easier to handle if they were only the technical and mathematical ones that can be systematically solved. Many of the demands placed upon us, however, do not have a formula for the answer.
The complexity of training and licensing and the lack of public awareness of the surveying profession combine to make it difficult to adopt some of the strategies employed by other professions to attract new talent.
Recently, I had an opportunity to visit with Elly Ball, the CEO of GetKidsintoSurvey, whose mission is to educate kids and the general public on the essentials of surveying.
Dr. Norbert Lohl, UAV Dach e.V., opened the European Drone Summit by stating this was clearly the right time for such a summit, citing a recently published special report that, he said, "calls our time the Drone Age."
