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110-Corrosion Control and Tactics

Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

This course provides a summary of a topic that is much in the news – the incidence and causes of the deteriorating condition of an important segment of the physical infrastructure in the United States - concrete highway bridges. In these structures the primary cause of damage is corrosion of the embedded steel reinforcement. The course condenses selected information from (20) cited engineering standards, articles and government reports to supply an overview of the topic.

Included are the ways corrosion damage occurs, control methods by which corrosion can be minimized for new construction and during remediation along with several techniques used to assess the extent of existing corrosion damage. The types of construction discussed are traditional rebar in concrete and prestressed bridge members – both pre and post-tensioned. The causes of problems with coated structural steel in bridges that are fully exposed to the atmosphere are briefly reviewed. Much of the information is applicable beyond bridges to other reinforced concrete structures that may experience corrosion of embedded reinforcement.

The learning objectives are to allow professional engineers to gain a basic understanding of how corrosion in reinforced structures occurs and how it may be assessed and controlled.

The course is most suitable for civil, structural and transportation engineers plus persons in other engineering disciples that plan and supervise construction and remediation of concrete structures in which corrosion may be an issue.

(4.3) 57 Reviews

4 $90.00

243-Soil Erosion & Sediment Control Plans

Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

This course provides an overview of the nature of aqueous corrosion and the variety of standard methods and well-known, but often overlooked tactics, used to control it at least cost. Topics reviewed include some fundamental aspects of electrochemistry related to control methods, brief descriptions of the various forms of attack, effects on corrosion rates of various operating variables, the four classic control methods and some suggested control tactics that the engineer can investigate further for applicability to his or her specific corrosion problem. Several references are cited.

(4.5) 32 Reviews

3 $67.50

008-Foundations of Project Management - Streaming Video Course

Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

This course is intended for engineers who are involved in land use projects that disturb the soil, including construction, mining, and other activities. It presents an overview of soil erosion and sediment control plans and describes several specific practices in detail.

The overall objective of this course is to provide a comprehensive description of soil erosion and sediment control plans and to familiarize the reader with the most commonly-employed practices. In addition, it presents detailed information on a number of soil erosion control practices and describes how and when to use them.

(4.6) 46 Reviews

4 $90.00

This Course Includes FREE Streaming Video

011-The Technical Side of Project Management - Streaming Video Course

Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

Even the smallest projects are multifaceted these days and the large projects are more complex than ever. Managing these projects requires a professional who is specially trained and equipped with the tools to meet the expectations of regulators, owners and the public. This course, lead by a world-renowned authority on project management, was created to give construction and design professionals the tools and understanding needed to be a successful Project Manager. Foundations of Project Management is the first in a series of project management courses offered by SunCam and Dr. Jeffrey Pinto of Penn State University.

Course Topics and timeline:

0:05:30 Introduction
0:28:15 Why Project Management
0:38:15 Project Scope Management
0:32:00 Risk Management
0:42:00 Basics of Planning and Scheduling
0:22:00 Project Tracking and Control
0:29:00 Project Close-out
0:10:00 Time allowance for test
3:27:00 Total Contact Time
3:20:00 Contact time required for 4-PDH

The objective of this course is to equip project personnel with the skills to:

Control and assure the quality of the work product
Anticipate the perils that will threaten the project
Coordinate the work of the various disciplines involved in producing the project
Apply the resources that are needed at the various stages of the project
Control project costs and schedule in order to meet the owner's requirements

(4.9) 104 Reviews

4 $90.00

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030-How Your Projects Will Go Wrong - Streaming Video Course

Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

Participants in this course will gain a working knowledge of the concepts, tools and techniques of project management through educational demonstrations, examples and illustrations.

Ten questions for Project Managers:

Are your projects ever late?
Are your projects ever over budget?
Which task should you start next?
Do you have enough people to complete your project on time?
Do you have too many people to keep your project on budget?
Do you know what tasks you must complete next week or next month to stay on schedule?
Do you have a list of uncompleted tasks for your project?
Do you know who will complete each of those tasks?
Do you have a strategy in place to deal with the loss of key individuals or other resources?
Do you lose sleep, worrying about any of these things?

This course will help you learn or relearn the skills of Project Management and end those sleepless nights.

This training program is a distance-learning course, created to give design, construction and manufacturing professionals the tools and understanding needed to be a successful Project Manager. The course is offered on Free Streaming Video. You earn continuing education credit by viewing the video and passing a 30-question online test.

The Technical side of Project Management is the second in a series of project management courses offered by SunCam and Dr. Jeffrey Pinto of Penn State University.

Course Topics and timeline:

0:04:00 Introduction
0:14:00 Work Breakdown Structure
0:37:00 Network Diagramming
0:12:00 Activity Duration Estimation
0:58:00 Developing the Critical Path
0:20:00 Crashing Projects
0:55:00 Monitoring Project Performance
0:10:00 Time allowance for test
3:32:00 Total Contact Time
3:20:00 Contact time required for 4-PDH

The objective of this course is to equip project personnel with the skills to:

Understand and write a work breakdown structure
Prepare and manage a network diagram for the project
Estimate the duration of all of the activities in the network diagram
Use the network diagram to establish the critical path for the project
Differentiate between the effective and ineffective methods for crashing projects
Monitor project costs and schedule

(4.7) 86 Reviews

4 $90.00

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256-Building Rebar Inspection

Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

Most projects fail to meet their cost and schedule objectives and only a small fraction achieve full success. This course offers practical advice and suggestions on how to recognize the warning signs that your project may be on the wrong path and what you can do to alleviate the problems. Just as the old saying, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" remains valid, the key to fixing project problems is through early recognition and effective solutions.

How Your Projects Will Go Wrong is the third in a series of project management courses offered by SunCam and Dr. Jeffrey Pinto of Penn State University.

Course Topics and Timeline:

0:10:00 Introduction
0:10:00 Causes of Project Failure
0:18:00 Poor leadership
0:31:00 Setting ourselves up to fail
1:00:00 Poor knowledge of Project Status
0:21:00 Ineffective solutions
0:33:00 10 Ways to ruin your project
0:08:00 Unwillingness to learn
0:05:00 Conclusions
0:10:00 Time allowance for test
3:26:00 Total Contact Time
3:20:00 Contact time required for 4-PDH

Learning Objectives:

The learning objectives of this continuing education course are to give attendees a better understanding of major reason why projects fail, including:

Poor leadership
Setting ourselves up to fail
Poor knowledge of project status
Ineffective "solutions"
The unwillingness to learn the correct lessons

(4.3) 21 Reviews

4 $29.95

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269-An Introduction to Due Diligence Reports for Development Projects

Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

Building Rebar Inspection takes the reader through a journey across the reinforced concrete construction of a new school center. It starts with the inspection of typical foundation pile caps and grade beams. Walls, slabs and other component features are described and illustrated. Sample Forms are provided for Inspectors to use as models to get started. Even the beginning designer or related professional will gain insight into how their design or contracting function fits into the concrete work happening in the field.

(4.7) 28 Reviews

4 $90.00

271-Spillway Design for Small Dams

Course Objectives:

This course is intended to provide professionals with an introduction to the research conducted and the submittal required for a Due Diligence Report of a Development Project. The course will discuss the process for preparing a Due Diligence Report (aka the "Report") beginning with the initial meeting with the Client and then proceeding to the field investigation, and the regulatory research required to produce the final Report. In the course are tips and examples that are provided for assistance and clarification of the various topics being discussed.

As you will learn, there are professional liabilities and risks associated with Due Diligence Reports that the professional needs to understand in order to protect his company, and himself, before executing a contract with a Client. Also included at the end of the course documentation is a sample Due Diligence checklist that can be used as a starting point for conducting the research for a Due Diligence Report.

Course Description:

Detailed course outline with timeline

6 Minutes – Contents and Introduction
11 Minutes – Course Description
14 Minutes – The Contract
23 Minutes – Due Diligence Research
11 Minutes – Field Work
18 Minutes – Regulatory Research
24 Minutes – Environmental Research
12 Minutes – Legal Research
11 Minutes – Utilities Research
12 Minutes – Transportation Research
14 Minutes – Miscellaneous Client Requests
18 Minutes – Estimates of Development Costs
11 Minutes – Summary
40 Minutes - The Test

(4.5) 26 Reviews

4 $90.00

203-What Every Engineer Should Know About Structures - Part A - Statics Fundamentals

Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

This course is intended for engineers who need to analyze, design, or retrofit a spillway for a small dam.

The overall objective of this course is to provide a detailed analysis of the various types of spillways and to explain the hydraulics of each type. There is a also a discussion of the spillway exit channels and a description of sub-critical, critical, and super-critical flows in these channels. After completing this course the engineer should be able to design a spillway using a variety of outlet structures.

(4.8) 117 Reviews

4 $90.00

207-What Every Engineer Should Know About Structures - Part B - Statics Applications

Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

Written in an easy to understand style, the course What Every Engineer Should Know About Structures Part A — Statics Fundamentals focuses on presenting simplified methods of calculations, and the presentation of intuitive methods for the understanding and solving of basic statics problems. Statics is fundamental to the field of engineering mechanics — including structural analysis and design. Included among the many topics covered are loads and forces on members; how to deal with uniformly varying distributed loads; solving equilibrium equations using an intuitive and simple method where up equals down and left equals right; and simplifying assumptions to determine the forces necessary to keep an extension ladder from sliding down a wall. Many example problems are worked with simple and easy to understand diagrams. Newton's three laws of motion are presented and reduced to two for use in statics.

This course is not a design course. However the methods and techniques presented can be used to determine the forces in many common structures including storage shelves in the garage, the support forces of an NFL player's bench, and drifting snow loads on a porch roof.

Anyone who has taken high school trig and algebra can complete this course.

What Every Engineer should Know About Structures Part B — Statics Applications, the second in a series, continues on with a look at how the fundamentals are applied to solving real-life statics problems. Included are sections on reactions; friction; forces in truss members; forces in cables used to support traffic lights hanging over intersections; and the huge mechanical advantages gained by using pulleys and sheaves.

Optional Supplemental Material

Basic Trigonometry, Significant Figures, and Rounding — A Quick Review is a zero credit course intended for those who might find themselves a bit rusty and would like a quick refresher. The information in the course is useful for application to the solution of structural problems especially in the fields of statics and strength of materials.

This course is free and can be downloaded here.

The trigonometry review includes demonstrating - through the use of several example problems — the use of the basic trigonometric functions including: the sine, cosine and tangent and their inverse; the Pythagorean Theorem; the Sum of the Angles; the Law of Sines; and the Law of Cosines. The significant figures and rounding review includes a discussion of the precision and validity of an answer, along with rules and guidelines for using the appropriate number of significant figures, and for rounding answers appropriately.

(4.8) 68 Reviews

4 $90.00

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Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

Written in an easy to understand style, the course What Every Engineer Should Know About Structures Part B — Statics Applications is a logical extension of the previous course in the series, What Every Engineer should Know About Structures Part A — Statics Fundamentals.

Where the first course in the series, "Part A — Statics Fundamentals", presented the fundamental principles of statics including nomenclature, definitions, Newton's Laws, and procedural methods, this course, "Part B — Statics Applications", applies the principles learned to real-life problems.

The course is divided into five sections. Included are sections on calculating reactions for beams, trusses, and frames; determining forces in truss members; calculating the different forces is a single cable supporting point and distributed loads; presenting the basics of friction; and understanding the principles of sheaves and pulleys.

Statics is fundamental to the field of engineering mechanics — including structural analysis and design. Included among the many topics covered are discussions of the uncertainties of design loads, why utility linemen are careful to sight along a line when making a final hook-up, and why simplifications in stating a statics problem is an acceptable and common practice. Many example problems are worked with simple and easy to understand diagrams and calculations.

This course is not a design course. However the methods and techniques presented can be used to determine the forces in many common structures including metal building frames, traffic light suspension cables, and multi-line hoisting systems, as well as to determine the minimum lean angle of an extension ladder as limited by friction.

Anyone who has completed the first course in this series can complete this course.

This course is free and can be downloaded by clicking the link below.

261-What Every Engineer Should Know About Structures - Part C - Axial Strength of Materials

(4.7) 51 Reviews

4 $90.00

274-What Every Engineer Should Know About Structures - Part D - Bending Strength Of Materials

Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

Written in an easy to understand style, the course What Every Engineer Should Know About Structures - Part C – Axial Strength of Materials is the third course in the series of courses in the field of study called engineering mechanics. This course focuses on presenting simplified methods of calculations, and the presentation of intuitive methods for the understanding and solving of basic problems. The course contains 18 solved example problems to illustrate the principles discussed.

This Course Includes:

stress and strain in a member, and their relationship, including material properties such as Hooke's Law and modulus of elasticity;
axial loads in tension and compression, including deformation;
shear stresses, including shear modulus of elasticity, single and double shear, and punching shear;
design stresses and factors of safety;
temperature deformation and thermal stresses, and;
cross sectional properties of structural members including determining the centroid of a cross section.

The first two courses in the series, called Statics, focused on solving problems related to the exterior (or externally) applied loads on a stationary body - a body at rest. It is expected that you have a good background in the study of Statics. If you are not familiar with statics, consider taking the two SunCam courses titled What Every Engineer Should Know About Structures Part A – Statics Fundamentals and What Every Engineer Should Know About Structures Part B – Statics Applications.

Significant Figures, Rounding, and the Solution of a Statics Problem – A Quick Review is a zero credit course intended for those who might find themselves a bit rusty and would like a quick refresher. The information in the course is useful for application to the solution of structural problems especially in the fields of statics and strength of materials. This course is free and can be downloaded at: Statistics PDF.

(4.9) 35 Reviews

4 $90.00

Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

Written in an easy to understand style, the course What Every Engineer Should Know About Structures - Part D - Bending Strength of Materials is the fourth course in the series of courses in the field of study called engineering mechanics. This course focuses on presenting intuitive methods for the understanding of basic principles of forces and stresses in beams. And solutions to basic problems with simplified methods of calculations. The course contains 19 solved example problems and additional drawings to illustrate the principles discussed.

Part D Includes:

Cross sectional properties of structural members including defining and determining the Moment of Inertia and Section Modulus of a cross section.
Torsional stresses and deformations of rods and shafts.
Shear and bending moment diagrams of beams.
Bending stresses in loaded beams.
Shear stresses in loaded beams.

The first two courses in the series, titled What Every Engineer Should Know About Structures - Part A – Statics Fundamentals and What Every Engineer Should Know About Structures - Part B – Statics Applications focused on solving problems related to the exterior (or externally) applied loads on a stationary body - a body at rest. The third course in the series, titled What Every Engineer Should Know About Structures - Part C – Axial Strength of Materials, focuses on what happens inside a structural member, including stresses and strains, axial deformation, factors of safety, thermal deformations, and properties of cross sectional areas.

It is expected that you have a good background in the material covered in the three previous courses. If you do not, consider taking the three SunCam courses for Part A, Part B, and Part C.

Loads, Supports, and Assumptions – A Quick Review is a zero credit course intended for those who might find themselves a bit rusty and would like a quick refresher. The information in the course is useful for application to the solution of structural problems especially in the fields of statics and strength of materials. This quick review course is free and can be downloaded: Supports PDF.

294-Drones for Engineers

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4 $9.95

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315-Introduction to Electrical Theory and DC Circuits

Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

Drone technology has leaped forward as the Federal Aviation Administration issued its part 107 rules for small unmanned aircraft system drones. About 40,000 remote pilots had been certified in the first year. Engineering firms have recognized the benefits accrued by using a stable airborne platform to see and document views necessary for their facility inspections. Surveyors see the photogrammetry business evolving as an inexpensive way to create topography maps. Construction companies are using drones to track project progress.

For engineers and firms interested in exploring drone use, this course gives an overview of drone uses. Whether developing an in-house drone program, purchasing a license to use drone software for a particular function, or subcontracting out work to a drone specialty company, knowing the drone basics presented here is essential.

(4.2) 5 Reviews

4 $90.00

Advanced Florida Building Code - Sixth Edition (2017) Florida Building Code-Building

Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

It is important for any engineer to have a fundamental knowledge of electrical circuits. This course provides an introduction to electrical theory and DC circuits. The content can be used to introduce yourself to these topics or can serve as a general review. No previous knowledge of electrical theory is required for this course.

Many applicational example problems are provided for general theory and for DC circuits. Circuits are analyzed in several arrangements including series, parallel, and a combination of series and parallel arrangements. Basic problems are presented first that cover key electrical concepts such as Coulomb's law, resistance, Ohm's law, and power. Series and parallel arrangements are discussed based on developing equivalent resistance for the circuit. More complex analysis tools like voltage divider rule, current divider rule, and Kirchoff's laws are also used.

(5) 1 Review

2 $38.00

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Course Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will have a better understanding of the Florida Building Code 6th Edition (2017) Building and be able to:

Discuss the application, enforcement, administration and scope of the Florida Building Code.
Identify major changes to the 6th Edition of the Florida Building Code (2017) Building (FBCB) (Chapters 1 through 10).
Explain definitions for terms used throughout the Florida Building Code-Building (FBCB) and understand that every word, term and punctuation mark can add to or change the meaning of the intended result.
Recognize and generally understand the extent of the changes, additions and deletions reflected in the 6th Edition of the Florida Building Code (2017) Building (FBCB) (Chapters 1 through 10).

Course Description:

Instructor: Thomas Martineau
Credit Hours: 2.00
Approval Number: 908.0

This course satisfies the requirements of Florida Statute 471.0195 and board rule 61G15-22.001 F.A.C.
Florida Building Commission Advanced Course Accreditation Number 908.0

This two-hour online distance learning course is designed to give the design and construction professional insight into the Florida Building Code-Building Code 6th Edition-Building (2017). It covers the fundamental changes, additions and modifications to the code. This course offers no opinions concerning any motivations behind these code changes. We leave it up to others to debate the potential impacts, merits or drawbacks, if any, of these new code provisions. Instead, changes are explained as objectively as possible within the scope of this course to clarify the extent and detail of the code modifications, the new provisions, or the deletions as these are now incorporated in the 6th Edition of the FBCB.

321-What Every Engineer Should Know About Endangered Species

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4 $29.95

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323-What every Engineer should know about Power Engineering fundamentals

Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

This course is intended as an overview of the Endangered Species Act and how it relates to land development projects. This knowledge is helpful in the early planning stages of a development and can prevent costly delays as the project progresses.

The overall objective of this course is to provide a basic understanding of what endangered species are and how their presence can affect land development. The course includes information as to where an engineer can gain preliminary data on this topic for a specific project.

(4.4) 20 Reviews

3 $67.50

346-Tiny Houses Part 1-Planning and Design Considerations, Legality, and the Engineer's Role

Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

Want to know more about Transformers, and not the kind in the movies? Electrical power is utilized for just about everything in the world. Without electricity, we could not function as a technical society. Electrical equipment can be seen everywhere, be it your house, office, stores or along the roads. What happens when you lose power at your house? Do you every wonder how things are powered up? Ever wonder what the big green humming box is near your offices front door? Do you want to know what a panelboard, circuit breaker, conductor or conduit is? This course will provide some fundamentals of electrical power engineering.

At the conclusion of this course, the student will:

Understand about the major equipment for electrical power equipment.
Learn more about residential electrical equipment.
Learn about conduits and conductors and other electrical equipment seen around construction sites and residential houses
Learn power equipment names seen in the consulting industry
Learn what major power equipment looks like
Learn about electrical construction tips

(4.9) 11 Reviews

4 $90.00

347 - Tiny Houses Part 2 - Structural Design

Course Objectives: After completing this course participants should be able to:

1.    Understand the differences between tiny houses on wheels, recreational vehicles, and manufactured homes.
2.    Recognize the professional services opportunities in the tiny house industry available to engineers.
3.    Comprehend the challenges in determining where and how tiny houses on foundations and tiny houses on wheels may be legally placed.
4.    Identify the different building/manufacturing standards available for a tiny house on wheels and the pros and cons of each standard.
5.    Understand the importance of the addition of Appendix Q to the 2018 International Residential Code.
6.    Know the reasoning behind maximum width and maximum height thresholds for mass produced tiny houses on wheels and how and when to exceed these thresholds.

Course Description:

This course serves as an introduction to designing tiny houses (houses 400 square feet or less in size). The majority of this multi-part course series focuses on tiny houses mounted on trailers which are often referred to as tiny houses on wheels (THOW). This introduction covers general planning and design considerations regarding trailers, appliances, utility connections, floor plans, and lofts. It also goes over the legal issues concerning construction standards and physical placement of both THOW and tiny houses on foundations. The basis of this course came from my own research, planning, designing, and construction of a THOW I built myself.

(4.9) 9 Reviews

4 $90.00

349-Engineering Economics Made Easier with MS Excel

Course Objectives: After completing this course participants should be able to:

1.    Understand the pros and cons of using wood and metal structural framing members.
2.    Size floor joists and roof joists using tables from the International Residential Code.
3.    Calculate the size of wood loft joists and window headers using allowable stress design methodologies.
4.    Recognize when advanced framing techniques are useful or not useful in given situations.
5.    Recall additional structural measures often used for highly mobile tiny houses on wheels.

Course Description:

This course is part two of a multi-part course series on designing tiny houses (houses 400 square feet or less in size). The majority of this multi-part course focuses on tiny houses mounted on trailers, which are often referred to as tiny houses on wheels (THOW). This second course focuses on structural design. Also presented are specific techniques to structurally handle the mobile nature of THOW. Both prescriptive and engineered methodologies are used. Five extensive examples with calculations and 35 figures and photos are included. The basis of this course came from my own research, planning, designing, and construction of a THOW I built myself.

(4.7) 29 Reviews

5 $112.50

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352-Fundamentals of Masonry Part A

Course Objectives: This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description:

When we submit engineering proposals, we often have to overcome a number of physical limitations in order to come up with the "best" way of solving a problem.But we should also ask ourselves, "Is this the most economical way of solving the problem?"

We must be able to speak both our "technical language" and the "language of managers" (paraphrasing slightly from quality guru Joseph Juran). Managers are concerned with the bottom line and want to ensure that resources are being used in the best way possible.As engineers, we too have a similar responsibility as we protect the welfare of the public.

The field of engineering economics, formerly known as engineering economy, estimates the costs and potential savings of proposals, and then determines if the proposals make "money-sense". Because the value of money today is not the same as money in the future, we must account for the time value of money, and calculate the proposal's "net present value" based on a rate of return desired by the organization.

Back in those engineering economy days, we often would have to go to tables of numbers and look up the correct "factors" to use to calculate present values and future values. We would have to "interpolate" from the tables if we were to use an interest rate of 7.5% (because the tables skipped from 7% to 8%).It was difficult to "back into" a rate of return for a proposal, or to estimate how long it may take to recoup an investment based on a desired rate of return. (Dare I mention slide rules?)

When you take this course, you will see that MS Excel has quite a few functions that will speed through calculations involving present value, future value, annuities, rates of return, and others. Woven throughout the course are engineering, business, and personal illustrations to help you better relate to the time value of money and the rate of return.

Engineering economics is not easy.But after completing this course, you should be able to see how Excel can make it "easier".

The FREE Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet that accompanies this course will be available for download after purchase. You will need Excel version 1997 or later to open the file.

(4.6) 17 Reviews

4 $90.00