Hanson Supports the Next Generation of Surveying Professionals
A student’s first real connection to a profession often starts with a chance to show up.
For surveying and geospatial careers, that chance might come through a field day, a mentor, a chapter event, or a conference where students can meet working professionals, ask questions, and see the wide range of paths this profession can offer. Those moments matter. They can turn curiosity into commitment.
Each year, TSPS Chapter 12 depends on sponsors who understand that building the future of surveying takes more than words of encouragement. It takes support, consistency, and a willingness to invest in students before they ever hold a license, lead a crew, or manage a project.
Hanson has always understood that clearly.
A Cornerstone Supporter, Year After Year
Hanson has been TSPS Chapter 12's top financial supporter year after year.
Hanson is a national, employee-owned consulting firm founded in 1954. The firm provides engineering, planning, and allied services to clients across the United States and around the world.
Today, Hanson includes more than 600 engineers, land acquisition specialists, planners, scientists, surveyors, technicians, and support staff. That broad range of expertise allows the firm to serve six strategic markets:
Aviation
Government
Industry
Infrastructure
Power
Railway
Surveying plays a key role across those markets. Good projects depend on reliable data, clear documentation, careful measurements, and professionals who understand both field conditions and project requirements.
Hanson’s surveying group is widely recognized for its land and hydrographic surveying capabilities. The group provides a full range of overland services nationwide, including:
Right-of-way surveying
Roadway surveying
Engineering design surveying
Boundary surveying
Construction surveying
Control surveying
Geodetic surveying
Planimetric surveying
Soil surveying
Topographic surveying
That range says something important about the profession. Surveying is not one narrow career path. It is a field with many points of entry and many ways to grow!
A Team Worth Joining
Hanson's talented workforce is comprised of innovative, collaborative professionals with a commitment to supporting clients and colleagues and they are always looking to add to their team.
Hanson proudly differentiates with the energy they bring to projects and the values that guide their approach to employee ownership including integrity, commitment, quality, relationships and innovation. Find out why Hanson is the place for you.
Hanson’s own words reflect a commitment to students
Hanson’s support of Chapter 12 is rooted in a clear belief in professional growth and student opportunity.
“The Texas Society of Professional Surveyors (TSPS) supports our employees at every stage of their careers. Because we believe in the potential of the youth in our communities, we are proud to cover the cost of two student registrations for the TSPS Symposium, allowing them to share in the richness of learning made possible by TSPS Chapter 12.”
That statement captures why this sponsorship matters.
It recognizes TSPS as more than an association. It recognizes the society as a place where professionals continue to learn, connect, and contribute throughout their careers. It also recognizes that young people need access to those same spaces early, while they are still forming their goals and deciding where they belong.
The future of surveying depends on that kind of early connection.
A strong profession does not happen by accident. It grows when experienced professionals take time to teach, when firms support education, when chapters create welcoming spaces, and when students can afford to participate.
Chapter 12 is grateful that Hanson sees the value in that work.
This Year's Gift: A Bigger Meet & Greet, and Two Students Headed to Symposium
Hanson's sponsorship is helping power Chapter 12's 3rd Annual Fall Meet & Greet on Friday, September 4th at Railroad Seafood & Brewery in downtown Corpus Christi. Hanson's support goes well beyond what we ask of our sponsors, and because of that generosity, Chapter 12 is able to raffle off two fully paid trips to the TSPS Annual Symposium at this year's Meet & Greet.
For the students who win those trips, it's more than a free event registration. It's access. It's encouragement. It's a direct invitation into a profession that needs their talent, energy, and perspective. Registration, travel, lodging, and time away from school or work can add up fast, and cost is often the deciding factor in whether a student attends. Hanson's gift removes that barrier and replaces it with a simple invitation: come learn, come meet people, come see what's possible.
Why It Matters
The Coastal Bend depends on skilled surveying and geospatial professionals for boundary work, infrastructure, coastal development, transportation planning, and more. Students may only know surveying as tripods along a roadside at first. Events like Chapter 12's annual meet and greet widen that view because students get to meet professionals across many specialties, hear how careers develop over time, and start to picture themselves in the room.
That kind of early connection doesn't happen by accident. It happens when firms like Hanson choose to invest in it, year after year.
Chapter 12 is Proud to Call Hanson a Premiere Sponsor
Thank you, Hanson, for your continued partnership, your generosity, and your belief in the next generation of surveying and geospatial professionals. We're proud to have you as one of our Premiere Sponsors, and we can't wait to send two lucky students to TSPS Symposium this year because of you.
Interested in supporting Chapter 12? Reach out to us to learn more about sponsorship opportunities and help create the next student opportunity.
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